Hot And Sour Soup With Tofu Recipes

Steps:

• Stir vinegar and cornstarch together in a bowl.
• Combine chicken broth, water, bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, garlic, ginger root, soy sauce, and red pepper flakes in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove lid and add tofu. Return to a boil; slowly drizzle in egg while stirring. Stir in cornstarch mixture.
• Simmer soup over medium heat until broth has thickened slightly, about 3 minutes. Top with green onions.

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• Combine the pork with the sesame oil, soy, and cornstarch. Let stand for 30 minutes. In a hot stockpot, add oil and sear the pork, stirring quickly then set aside. Add the chiles and ginger, and stir. Add the stock, sugar, bamboo and wood ear and bring to a boil. Season. While boiling, drizzle in the egg to form ribbons. Add the cornstarch and stir constantly to thicken. Add vinegar, soy, sesame oil, scallions and cilantro including the pork and check for seasoning. I love my soup tart and spicy so more vinegar and white pepper can be added. Add Tofu Fritters to each bowl of soup and serve.
• Preheat a fryer to 400 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, whisk together the tofu, yolks, scallions, sesame oil, ginger, and sausage. Season and fold into egg whites. Using 2 spoons, make quenelles and gently place in a dish of rice flour and coat using your hands. Place in deep fryer and fry to golden brown, about 2 to 3 minutes. Drain on paper towels and season, place in soup, and immediately serve.

Steps:

• In a large (5-quart) pot, combine broth, soy sauce, crushed red pepper, and 2 cups water. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Add mushrooms; reduce heat, and simmer until tender, about 10 minutes.
• In a small bowl, whisk together 3 tablespoons vinegar and cornstarch. Add to pot; simmer, stirring, until soup is thickened, about 1 minute.
• Add egg through a slotted spoon, and stir to form ribbons. Stir in tofu. Remove from heat; let stand, covered, 1 minute. Put ginger in a small sieve, and squeeze to release juice into soup (discard solids). Taste; add remaining tablespoon vinegar, if desired. Serve sprinkled with scallions.

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a soup kettle and saute the green onions and bell peppers together until tender.
• Add water, vegetable stock, and soy sauce.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer, cover lightly, and cook for 5 minutes.
• Blend cornstarch with 3 tablespoons water.
• In a bowl, blend the vinegar, pepper flakes, cornstarch blend, and sesame oil.
• Stir into the hot soup until incorporated, and then add the tofu, snow peas, and water chestnuts.
• Again cover, and cook for about 5 minutes or until thick and bubbly.
• Turn off the heat.
• Adjust salt and pepper to taste, serve immediately.

Steps:

• Put the wood ears in a small bowl and cover with boiling water. Let stand for 30 minutes to reconstitute. Drain and rinse the wood ears; discard any hard clusters in the centers.
• Heat the oil in a wok or large pot over medium-high flame. Add the ginger, chili paste, wood ears, bamboo shoots, and pork; cook and stir for 1 minute to infuse the flavor. Combine the soy sauce, vinegar, salt, pepper, and sugar in a small bowl, pour it into the wok and toss everything together - it should smell really fragrant. Pour in the Chinese Chicken Stock, bring the soup to a boil, and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the tofu and cook for 3 minutes.
• Dissolve the cornstarch in the water and stir until smooth. Mix the slurry into the soup and continue to simmer until the soup thickens. Remove the soup from the heat and stir in 1 direction to get a current going, then stop stirring. Slowly pour in the beaten eggs in a steady stream and watch it spin around and feather in the broth (it should be cooked almost immediately.) Garnish the hot and sour soup with chopped green onions and cilantro before serving.
• Put the chicken in a large stockpot and place over medium heat. Toss in the green onions, garlic, ginger, onion, and peppercorns. Pour about 3 quarts of cold water into the pot to cover the chicken by 1-inch. Simmer gently for 1 hour, uncovered, skimming off the foam on the surface periodically.
• Carefully remove the chicken from the pot and pass the stock through a strainer lined with cheesecloth to remove the solids and excess fat. Cool the chicken stock to room temperature before storing in the refrigerator, or chill it down over ice first.
• Yield: About 2 quarts

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• Soak mushrooms and lily flowers in boiling hot water for 20 minutes. Drain and reserve soaking liquid.
• In a large pot, combine soaking liquid and chicken stock. Bring to a boil and season with salt. Simmer 5 minutes, add tofu, exotic mushrooms and bok choy. Slowly add egg to soup, stirring gently. Then add pork or chicken. Cover and cook about 5 minutes.
• Stir a little of the hot stock into cornstarch paste and add this mixture to the soup. Cook another 2 minutes.
• Stir in sesame oil, vinegar, and chili paste or black pepper. Sprinkle with scallions and cilantro, serve immediately

Steps:

• In a large pot, combine broth, soy sauce, pepper, and water.
• Bring to a boil over medium heat.
• Add mushrooms. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes or until tender.
• Meanwhile, whisk together vinegar and cornstarch in a small bowl.
• Add vinegar mixture to the pot and simmer, stirring, for about one minute or until thickened.
• Add egg through a slotted spoon while stirring.
• Stir in tofu.
• Remove from heat, cover, and let stand for 1 minute.
• Press ginger through a small sieve to release juice into the soup. Discard solids.
• Sprinkle with scallions and serve.

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• Combine pork, rice vinegar, white pepper powder and corn starch. Refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.
• Soak dried black fungus with warm water until soft. Wash and slice.
• Cook black fungus, bamboo shoot, mustard greens in boiling water for about 1 minute. Drain and set aside.
• Combine 1 tablespoon corn starch and 1/3 cup water.
• Boil chicken broth and water together in a soup pot. Add black fungus, bamboo shoot, mustard greens and carrot. Add some warm water if necessary. Bring to boil again. Reduce heat to medium.
• Stir in tofu, rice vinegar, soy sauce, salt and white pepper powder. Slowly stir in cornstarch mixture and then pork. Cook for about 2 minutes or until soup becomes thick. Reduce heat to low. Slowly stir in egg and then sesame oil.
• Serve hot. Sprinkle chopped green onions and cilantro in soup bowl. Sprinkle some more white pepper powder in soup bowl if desire.

Steps:

• Bring stock to a simmer, add soy sauce, pork, mushrooms& chile paste, simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add meat, pepper, vinegar, bamboo, baby corn, water chestnuts, fungus and tofu, simmer 10 min Mix cornstarch with 5 tbsp water and add.
• bring back to a simmer and pour the eggs in a very thin stream over the surface.
• Let stand for 10 seconds before gently stirring in the sesame oil.
• Serve with a garnish of chopped scallions.

Steps:

• Heat vegetable oil over medium-high heat in saucepan until hot.
• Add garlic, ginger, scallions and pork. Break up the pork into smaller pieces with a spoon. Cook for about 3 minutes stirring occasionally
• Add the chicken stock and bring to a simmer.
• Add the tofu, mushrooms, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, black pepper, sesame oil and Sriracha sauce sauce. Bring soup back to a simmer over medium-high heat. Cook for about 15 - 20 minutes or until pork is cooked through and vegetables are cooked to your liking.
• Taste the soup - if you want it more sour, add more rice vinegar. If you want it hotter, add more Sriracha sauce.
• Reduce heat to medium and simmer for an additional 5 minutes.
• In a small bowl, whisk the eggs until blended.
• While the soup is at a steady simmer, slowly whisk in the eggs so they form strands.
• Bring soup back to a simmer.
• Divide the soup into 4-6 bowls, and garnish each with a little sesame oil, scallion and black pepper. Serve hot.