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Hot and Sour Soup

Soup - Vegetable - -

INGREDIENTS

2 T cornflour (corn starch) blended with
5 T water
4 T rice or white wine vinegar
3 T water
1 T dry sherry (optional)
2 T light soy sauce
Black pepper to taste (lots!)
2 T vegetable oil
3 slices fresh ginger, shredded finely
1 medium onion, sliced finely
40 g / 1 1/2 oz shiitake mushrooms shredded
425 ml / 3/4 pint water
15 g / 1/2 oz Chinese or porcini dried mushrooms, soaked in hot water for 20 minutes, then drained and sliced
85 g / 3 oz tinned straw mushrooms halved
85 g / 3 oz tinned bamboo shoots cut into matchstick strips
2 spring onions, shredded
1 green or red chilli, sliced lengthwise and deseeded
600 ml / 1 pint vegetable stock
115 g / 4 oz frozen peas, defrosted
Chopped spring onions to garnish

METHOD

Mix the cornflour, vinegar, water, sherry and soy sauce together until smooth. Season to taste with pepper.

Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan over a medium heat and stir-fry the ginger onion and shiitake mushrooms for 2 minutes. Add the water bring to the boil and add the dried mushrooms, straw mushrooms, bamboo shoots, spring onions, chilli and stock.

Bring to the boil and simmer gently for 30 minutes, then add the peas and heat them through. Cook gently for 3 minutes, then slowly stir in the vinegar/cornstarch mixture until the soup thickens.

Remove the chilli (or not) and garnish with chopped spring onions before serving.

NOTES

Hot and Sour Soup actually cures colds... or damn close to it.

I used to make pseudo chicken noodle soup when I was ill but one day I tried hot and sour soup at a chinese restaurant instead and my cold basically disappeared the next day - amazing stuff and tastes great.

It's the ginger, garlic, black pepper and a touch of vinegar that does it. Just increase garlic, ginger, vinegar & chilli proportions according to how bad your cold is.

posted by Mr Falafel

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