Recipe: Tasty Easy hot and sour soup

Easy hot and sour soup. This warm, cozy, hot and sour soup without ever having to leave the house at all. This homemade version turned out to be so stinking amazing - so easy and so much faster than delivery. This restaurant-style Hot and Sour Soup recipe is the best!!

Soak the mushrooms in water until it is fully hydrated and become very soft and easy to cut. The time required varies from an hour to two or three hours, as it depends on the thickness of the mushrooms. This Indo Chinese fusion spicy and tangy soup is very easy to make and also tastes great. You can cook Easy hot and sour soup using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Easy hot and sour soup

1. You need 1 quart of chicken broth (I use low sodium).
2. Prepare 4 oz of shiitake mushroom, thinly sliced.
3. Prepare 8 oz of (1 small can) thinly sliced bamboo shoot, drained.
4. It's 12 oz of (or 1 box) firm tofu, cut in small cubes or 1/4" strips.
5. Prepare 4 cloves of garlic grated/minced.
6. Prepare 1 tbsp of minced/grated ginger.
7. It's 2 tbsp of balsamic vinegar.
8. You need 3 tbsp of rice vinegar.
9. You need 1.5 tbsp of sriracha.
10. Prepare 3 tbsp of soy sauce.
11. It's 2 tsp of brown sugar.
12. Prepare 2 tbsp of corn starch mixed with 2tbsp pf cold water.
13. Prepare 2 of eggs, lightly beaten.
14. It's 1 tbsp of sesame oil.
15. Prepare of White pepper, to taste (I added A LOT as I like it lol).
16. It's of (Option) green onions.

It's a quick and very flexible recipe as you can use variety of. Hot and sour soup can be found on any takeout menu or Chinese buffet line in the US. It ranges in quality and flavor from awesomely delicious to lukewarm, tasteless, and gloopy. There was a time when I never thought to make it myself and resigned myself to the luck of the draw when it came to ordering it.

Easy hot and sour soup instructions

1. Add 1 tsp sesame oil and add mushroom to a big sauce pan over medium high heat. Stir fry for 1 minute. (I added some onion, but not necessary).
2. Add ginger and garlic and stir fry for another 30 seconds..
3. Add bamboo shoot and stir fry for another 30 seconds..
4. Add all the rest of the ingredients from the top up to brown sugar to the pan and mix well..
5. Turn the heat down after it starts to boil. Simmer for 5 minutes..
6. Add corn starch mixture and stir, simmer until the soup is slightly thicken, about 2 minutes..
7. Slowly stir in the egg to the soup..
8. Add white pepper and sesame oil and green onion. Simmer for another 1 minute..
9. Remove from heat and serve :).
10. You can pair with fried/steamed dumplings or some stir fry veggies to make a full dinner :D.

Is hot and sour soup health? I like Panda Express Hot and Sour Soup so here are the secrets techniques and tips that yield Chinese restaurant's results: Do not use whisk. Beat egg in a cup until yolk and white are combined. First time ever making, my wife loves hot n sour soup. Very easy and I could not believe it was even better than the resturant and she loved it.