Name: Hot and Sour Soup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 3
Ingredients: 1 tsp vegetable oil; 100g pork belly - thinly sliced, pepper-and-salted; 1 tsp potato starch / katakuriko; about 250g soft tofu - cut into cubes; 1/2 carrot (~50g) - cut into julienne; 2 to 3 shiitake (~60g) - sliced; 60g leek - cut into julienne; 2 to 3 eggs; For the Soup :; 800ml water; 3 tsp Chinese chicken bouillon powder; 1 tbsp cooking sake or white wine; 1 to 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar or rice vinegar; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 to 1.5 tsp kosher salt (adjust to your taste); 1 tbsp oyster sauce; 1 tbsp potato starch / katakuriko dissolved in 1.5 tbsp water

February 6, 2021

Hot and Sour Soup

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Prep Time

20 minutes

Cook Time

30 minutes

Total Time

50 minutes

Ingredients

1 tsp vegetable oil
100g pork belly - thinly sliced, pepper-and-salted
1 tsp potato starch / katakuriko
about 250g soft tofu - cut into cubes
1/2 carrot (~50g) - cut into julienne
2 to 3 shiitake (~60g) - sliced
60g leek - cut into julienne
2 to 3 eggs

For the Soup :

800ml water
3 tsp Chinese chicken bouillon powder
1 tbsp cooking sake or white wine
1 to 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar or rice vinegar
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 to 1.5 tsp kosher salt (adjust to your taste)
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp potato starch / katakuriko dissolved in 1.5 tbsp water

Instructions

1. In a cooking pot, heat 1 tsp vegetable oil and cook the pork. When the pork is almost cooked, add carrot, leek and shiitake. Stir-fry for a few minutes.
2. Pour the water (800ml) and bring it to a boil, adding chicken soup powder, cooking sake, soy sauce, kosher salt, oyster sauce.
3. Once it has boiled then add tofu and bring it to a boil again. Add vinegar (1 or 2 tbsp, depending on your taste). Pour the dissolved potato starch to thicken the soup. Then add the beaten eggs but don't mix them in until the eggs are cooked.
4. Serve hot! Add Ra-yu (chili oil) or homemade rayu if you like spicy!

March 28, 2019

Pumpkin Soup

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Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

30 minutes

Total Time

1 hour

Ingredients

1 onion - finely chopped
30g butter
700g pumpkin - cut into small bite sizes cubes
200g bacon
300g water
3 small consomme cube maggie or 1 chicken stock cube
330g milk
1 tsp sugar
dash of salt to taste

Instructions

1. In a frying-pan, heat 1 tbsp butter and cook the onion until wilted. Add bacon and pumpkin and cook for a few more minutes.
2. Pour the water and consomme cubes, bring it to a boil. Once boiled, uncover, and reduce the heat. Let simmer for about 15 to 20min or until pumpkin is tender.
3. Add the milk and stir through. Note : Do not boil after you've added the milk. Otherwise you might separate the milk.
4. Add sugar. Mix. Pepper and salt to taste.
Serve hot!

April 22, 2018

Easy wonton soup

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Ingredients

- Ingredient A -

200g ground pork
1 leek - finely chopped
dash of salt
1 tsp cooking sake or white wine
1/2 egg
1/3 tsp white sugar
1/2 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp ginger powder

- Ingredient B -

some of green parts of leek
1.3 L water
30g weipa or gara soup or chicken powder
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp mirin
dash of salt to taste
25 to 30 wonton wrappers
some of scallions to garnish

Instructions

1. In a bowl add all the ingredient A and knead the mixture until well combined and sticky.
2. Place a spoonful of the mixture in the center of a wonton wrapper. Wet the edge of wrapper with fingertip. Fold over and seal to close once, then wet each tip and fold in half to close again as per picture. Continue with the rest of the wonton wrappers until you used all filling.
Advice : Sprinkle some flour on the wontons if you are not going to cook them immediately. It will prevent them from sticking to each other.
3. In a cooking pot, add all the ingredient B and bring it to boil. Set aside until the wontons are ready. This will be your soup.
4. Bring a separate pot of water to a boil. Place the wontons and cook for about 5 to 6 minutes or until they float.
5. Remove the wontons with a slotted spoon and put them in serving bowls. Pour the soup from #3 over the wontons and garnish with scallions.
Serve hot!