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Hot and Sour Soup Version-02

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(Recipe ID: 445)
Serves 4
Preparation time: 15 minutes; Cook time: 20 minutes
Source: Vito De Carolis
Chicken meat and broth, as well as lemon and hot sauce makes this soup a little lighter and spicer than the first version.
Ingredients
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- 4 Dried black mushrooms *
- 1/4 pound Lean pork
- 1/4 pound White chicken meat
- 2 Bean curd cakes
- 1 Scallion
- 1 Egg
- 2 tablespoons Cornstarch
- 1/4 cup Water
- 5 cups Chicken broth
- 1 cup Mushroom soaking liquid
- 2 tablespoons Fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon Fine sea salt *
- 1 teaspoon Soy sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon Black peppercorn, freshly ground *
- 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
Instructions
- Soak dried mushrooms.
- Reserve soaking liquid.
- Sliver mushrooms, pork, chicken, and bean curd.
- Mince scallion.
- Beat egg lightly.
- Blend cornstarch and cold water to a paste.
- Bring broth and mushroom-soaking liquid to a boil.
- Add pork, chicken, and mushrooms and simmer, covered, 10 minutes.
- Add bean curd and simmer, covered, 3 minutes more.
- Stir in “Sherry” wine, lemon juice, salt, soy sauce, and peppercorn.
- Thicken with cornstarch paste.
- Slowly add beaten egg, stirring gently once or twice.
- Remove from heat.
- Sprinkle with Tabasco sauce and minced scallion.
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