How to Make Hot and Sour Soup

a close up of hot and sour soup in a blue and white bowl

The classic Chinese or Asian soup recipe that is healthy and better than takeout! Perfect as a side or appetizer. Tofu, mushrooms, bamboo shoots in a familiar flavorful spicy and sour broth.

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Prep Time 15

Cook Time 35

Total Time 50

Course Soup

Cuisine Asian

Servings people

Calories 147 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

4 cups chicken broth
2 cloves garlic pressed
2 teaspoons fresh ginger grated
2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 large pork chop sliced paper-thin
1 can mushrooms sliced and drained, 15 oz.
½ cup carrot sliced into sticks about the same thickness as the bamboo
4 oz firm tofu well drained, cut into ½-inch cubes
½ cup bamboo shoots drained and sliced into sticks
3 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 egg white slightly beaten
¼ cup green onions thinly sliced
¼ cup garlic flavor rice vinegar
2 teaspoon sesame oil
¼ teaspoon white pepper or ½ teaspoon black pepper

Instructions

Heat chicken broth in a 2-quart saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic, soy sauce, red pepper, pork, mushrooms, and carrots. Simmer for 15 minutes or until carrots are beginning to soften. Add tofu and bamboo shoots. Simmer for 5 minutes more.
Combine water and cornstarch in a small bowl; whisk until smooth. Add slurry to the soup and stir well. Let simmer until soup thickens and pork is cooked through, 5 to 10 minutes more.
Beat the egg white in a small bowl and slowly pour, in a fine stream, around the edge of the soup pot. Stir well and heat for another minute or two.
Mix in green onions, rice vinegar, white pepper, and sesame oil. Remove from heat and serve hot.

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Notes

I like my hot and sour soup with both pork and tofu in it. You could easily use chicken and tofu, just tofu, or just pork. Use whatever combination of protein you prefer.

If you've ever had egg drop soup, you might notice that the process with the egg at the end resembles the egg drop process. Hot and sour soup usually includes thin ribbons of cooked eggs, and that's how you make them.

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Keyword pork, soup, tofu

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