Hot and Sour Soup
Warm up yourself with a very quick and easy vegetable hot and sour soup, perfect when it cold or rainy outside. As the name says, this soup is hot and sour . Hot and sour soup is one the most popular soup in any Indo-Chinese restaurants in India. The warmth from ginger and garlic, the crunch from carrots and cabbage and tangy flavor from soy sauce and vinegar makes this hot and sour soup so special and most demanded.
Hot and Sour Soup Recipe
Course: Appetizers, SoupsCuisine: Chinese, Indo-ChineseDifficulty: Medium6
servings15
minutes30
minutesHot and Sour soup is one of the most popular Chinese soup recipe of all time.
Ingredients
Half of medium carrot, finely chopped
Half of medium onion, finely chopped
4 green onion, finely chopped
1 stalk of celery, finely chopped
1/4 cup of finely chopped cabbage
1/4 cup of corn kernels
2 Tbsp of finely chopped green bell pepper or capsicum
6 big garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 Tbsp of finely chopped ginger
4 cups of low sodium veg/chicken broth or stock
1 Tbsp of vinegar
1.5 Tbsp of soy sauce
Green chilli sauce to taste
1.5 Tbsp of corn flour
1/2 tsp of black pepper
1 Tbsp of oil
salt to taste
Directions
- Heat oil in heavy bottom pan and add ginger and garlic and stir for 30 seconds.
- Then add onion and white part of green onion and stir until it’s translucent.
- Now add celery, corn and carrot and stir for a minute.
- Now add cabbage, bell pepper and stock and let it comes to boil.
- In a small bowl add corn flour to 4 Tbsp of water and mix well.
- When stock comes to boil, add soy sauce, chilli sauce, vinegar, black pepper and flour mixture and mix well.
- When the soup get slightly thickens, turn off the stove and add green part of onion .
- Hot and sour soup is ready to serve
Notes
- You can make it a hot and sour noodle soup by adding broken noodles at the time of adding stock.
- Add some rotisserie chicken pieces to call it a chicken hot and sour soup.
