Hot and Sour Soup
 
 
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Recipe type: Soup
Ingredients
  • 4 cup(s) fat-free chicken broth
  • 2 tbsp rice vinegar
  • 2 tsp asian hot sauce, or chili paste, (or to taste, start with a little and add until it seems like it carries the right punch)
  • 2 cup(s) mushroom(s), sliced (I prefer crimini, but white, shitake or any kind of mushroom will work just fine)
  • 9 oz firm tofu
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch, mixed with 2 tbsp water
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 medium scallion(s), sliced
  • optional – ⅓ cup(s) bamboo shoots, sliced
  • optional – egg whites
Instructions
  1. Dice up your tofu, mushrooms and bamboo shoots
  2. In a soup pot, stir together the chicken broth, vinegar, hot sauce, soy sauce, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and tofu.
  3. Bring to a simmer and cook for five (5) minutes.
  4. Stir in cornstarch and simmer two (2) minutes more.
  5. Serve, sprinkling each bowl with sliced scallions.
Recipe by A Happy Hive at https://ahappyhive.com/hot-sour-soup/