Hot & Sour Soup

Ingredients

• Garlic

  Raw

  2 clove or 6g

• Peppers

  Hot chile, sun-dried

  1 pepper or 0.5g

• Salt

  Table

  ¼ tsp or 2g

• Pepper

  Spices, white

  1 tbsp, ground or 7g

• Ginger root

  Raw

  1 slices or 2g

• Mushrooms

  White, raw

  1 cup, pieces or slices or 70g

• Bamboo shoots

  Canned, drained solids

  8 oz or 227g

• Vegetable oil

  Natreon canola, high stability, non trans, high oleic (70%)

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Soy sauce

  Made from soy (tamari)

  3 tbsp or 54g

• Rice wine vinegar

  4 tbsp or 60g

• Honey

  1 tsp or 7g

• Chicken stock

  Soup, home-prepared

  6 ⅓ cup or 1.52kg

• Tofu

  Firm, prepared with calcium sulfate and magnesium chloride (nigari)

  6 oz or 170g

• Scallions

  Spring onions or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw

  2 medium or 30g

• Chives

  Raw

  10 tbsp chopped or 30g

• Egg

  Whole, fresh eggs

  1 large or 50g

Directions

1. Peel the garlic and deseed the chillies, then roughly chop and place into a pestle and mortar. Bash with a pinch of salt to a rough paste. Peel, finely chop and add the ginger, then bash until broken down and combined.
2. Finely slice the mushrooms and bamboo shoots. Heat a lug of oil in a large wok or heavy-based saucepan over a medium-high heat, add the mushrooms and fry for 4 minutes, or until lightly golden. Stir in the chilli paste and bamboo shoots and fry for a further minute.
3. Meanwhile, mix together soy, rice wine vinegar, the honey and a good pinch of white pepper. Stir the mixture into the pan and cook for a minute, then pour in the hot stock and bring gently to the boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes, or until slightly reduced. Meanwhile, chop the tofu into 1/2 inch cubes, finely slice the spring onions and chives and whisk the egg well.
4. Once reduced, remove the soup from the heat. Using a chopstick, stir the soup in a clockwise direction until you get a little whirlpool, then slowly add the beaten egg, stirring continuously to form thin ribbons. Stir in the tofu and return to the heat for 1 minute to warm through. Season to taste with soy and vinegar, then serve immediately with the spring onions and chives scattered on top.

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