Hot & Sour Soup

Name: Hot & Sour Soup
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Asia
Ingredients: Scant ¼ cup [50 ml] Chinese black vinegar; Scant 2 Tbsp [25 ml] dark soy sauce; 3 Tbsp cornstarch mixed with 6 Tbsp cold water, OR 9 oz [250 g] ramen noodles; Juice of 4 limes; 3 Tbsp cornstarch mixed with 6 Tbsp cold water, OR 9 oz [250 g] ramen noodles; 3 Tbsp cornstarch mixed with 6 Tbsp cold water, OR 9 oz [250 g] ramen noodles; 1 heaping cup [100 g] snow peas; 1 cup [100 g] baby corn cobs, halved lengthwise; 5 oz [150 g] silken tofu, drained and cut into ⅝-inch [1.5-cm] cubes; A few carrots, finely julienned (optional); Handful of bean sprouts, well washed; 1 bunch of scallions, julienned; Mint and cilantro leaves; Mint and cilantro leaves; 3 to 4 Tbsp peanut or vegetable oil; 3 to 4 Tbsp peanut or vegetable oil; 3 garlic cloves, minced; 1-in [2.5-cm] piece of ginger, peeled and grated (I keep mine in the freezer to use as and when); 5¼ oz (150 g) shiitake mushrooms, sliced; 5 to 7 oz (150 to 200 g) brown mushrooms, sliced; 2 red chiles, seeded and thinly sliced; Big glug of rice wine or dry sherry; Big glug of rice wine or dry sherry; 2 qt [2 L] hot vegetable stock; 4 lime leaves (ideally fresh: grow a kaffir lime plant to always have some around); 4 lime leaves (ideally fresh: grow a kaffir lime plant to always have some around); Scant 3 Tbsp [40 ml] light soy sauce

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

V is for Vegan

By Kerstin Rodgers

Published 2015

About

I served this at The Secret Garden Club supper club that I host monthly with gardener Zia Mays. We try to use the produce that I grow in my garden. This time the theme was herbs-classic, unusual and micro. This hot and sour soup is a bit of a mix between a Thai sour soup and a Chinese one. I found that just the black vinegar wasn’t sour enough, so I added lime. A proper Chinese hot and sour soup has wood ears and bamboo shoots in it. I didn’t have any, so this is my bastardized version. Fea

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Asia
Lunch
Spicy
Soup
Vegan

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