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Hot and Sour Soup

Peppery, vinegar-sharp broth with tofu and mushrooms.

Prep
12 min
Cook
18 min
Total
30 min
Active
20 min
Serves
4
Difficulty
Easy
Cuisine
chinese
Servings4

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Simmer the stock with the mushrooms and bamboo shoots for 8 minutes.

  2. Add the tofu, vinegar, soy sauce, and white pepper and simmer 3 minutes.

  3. Stir in the cornstarch slurry and cook 1 minute until the soup thickens.

  4. Turn off the heat and pour the eggs in a thin stream while stirring once, slowly, to make ribbons.

  5. Finish with scallions and sesame oil, then adjust vinegar and pepper to taste.

Add vinegar and pepper at the end — both fade with heat.