Today I had the taste for a Hot and Sour Soup. Not sure why, I've never really had one before. Seemed like a good time to try. I had some chicken already cooked from the day before. Ran out to the store for some mushroom, green onions, bean sprouts, cilantro, lime and sriarcha sauce. Also included a stop at the Penzey spice store (trouble!) for nothing that I needed for this recipe. Just wanted to stop :)
So first up, shredded the chicken from yesterday. Then sautéed the mushrooms. Then added some chopped garlic and grated in some fresh ginger. I keep my ginger in the freezer, always have some on hand.
Next into the pot was some rice vinegar. Then soy sauce. Then stock. Brought that to a boil, then added in some cornstarch mixed with water to thicken it up.
Once it was thickened, in went some sliced green onions and a few handfuls of bean sprouts. It smelled so good at this point! I also put some pot stickers on to cook, and cooked up some soup noodles.
Then it was time to assemble! This was the fun part. Noodles in the bottom of the bowl, then ladled the soup in. Garnished with a squeeze of lime, some cilantro and a couple of squirts of the sriracha sauce. Pete put his pot stickers in his soup, and said that was the way to go. I had mine on the side.
This was an excellent soup! I really enjoyed it. Might be my favorite yet because it was something I had never thought to make before. And really easy. Could easily do this on a weeknight. Soup's on!
what is sriarcha sauce?
ReplyDeleteIt's asian hot sauce. it's red and spicy. see it as a condiment at asian restaurants.
ReplyDeleteLooks great! You should freeze an ice cube's worth of each soup, thaw and combine them after the three months for the Soup of Soups.
ReplyDeleteSriarcha sauce- imagine if dragons existed and you could bottle their fire breathe, that's about what sriarcha tastes like.
that looks awesome!
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