Hot and Sour Soup for Small Families

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Hot and Sour Soup for Small Families

 

Ingredients:

4 cups soup stock

hot pepper flakes

about 200 g firm tofu (regular or silken), cut into small, long slices

or small cubes

1/2 cup mushrooms, sliced

1/4 cup carrots, in matchsticks or julienned

2 tablespoons soy sauce

1 teaspoon sugar

pinch salt

pinch pepper

2 tablespoons vinegar

1 teaspoon cornstarch, dissolved in some water

1 teaspoon hot sesame oil (optional)

 

Method:

Boil the hot pepper flakes, tofu, mushrooms, and carrots in the soup

stock for ten to fifteen minutes. Stir in the soy sauce, sugar, salt,

pepper, and vinegar.

 

Add the dissolved cornstarch to the soup. Remove the soup from the heat

as soon as it has thickened. Gently stir in the hot sesame oil (or add

to individual bowls, per taste).

 

Notes:

This soup takes about twenty minutes to prepare.

 

Recipe yields four servings.