I’ve been battling a head cold all week and the perfect solution? Hot and Sour Soup! It’s inexpensive, filling, and it will clear your sinuses. I also love that there are only a few ingredients and it can be ready in 15 minutes (that includes prep time)!
Hot and Sour Soup
Author: Heather
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
- Dice up your tofu, mushrooms and bamboo shoots
- In a soup pot, stir together the chicken broth, vinegar, hot sauce, soy sauce, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and tofu.
- Bring to a simmer and cook for five (5) minutes.
- Stir in cornstarch and simmer two (2) minutes more.
- Serve, sprinkling each bowl with sliced scallions.
Like most of my other recipes – you add more of what you want and less of what you don’t. I love mushrooms – so I add a lot. Tofu regularly goes on sale for $0.99 a container (it seems like it’s on sale a lot at Safeway?) and this can be a great meal to whip up when you find a good deal on mushrooms. I think this soup would freeze just fine.
Let me know what you think!
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