Sichuan hot and sour soup (Suan La Tang)

Hot and sour soup (Suan La Tang) is a common dish popular in China especially in cold winter.

It is firstly invented for poor people who need to warm their body up. So lots of white pepper used. It has different versions in China. In Sichuan area, hot and sour soup is called as Suan La Tang which is mainly cooked with chicken and pork stock while in Northern areas, it is called as Hu La Tang and usually with beef or lamb stock. Although there are some differences in texture including the color and flavors, they share lots of similarities too.

Recept od Elaine 

Pre: 4 osoby / 4 porcie

Príprava: 10 min, varenie: 10 min. spolu: 20 min.

Ingredients

• 3 dried shiitake mushrooms , soaked in hot water and thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup dried wood ear mushrooms , soaked in hot water and shredded
• 50 g pork shreds
• 4 bamboo shoots , finely shredded
• 1/3 carrot , shredded
• 1 thumb ginger , shredded
• 3 tbsp. black vinegar
• 2 tsp. fresh ground white pepper powder
• 5 cups unsalted chicken stock
• 50g soft tofu
• 2 tbsp. light soy sauce , or soy sauce
• 1 tsp. dark soy sauce
• 1 tsp. salt or to taste
• 1/2 tbsp. sugar
• 1 large egg , whisked
• sesame oil for drizzling
• chopped green onion and coriander

Pork marinating

• 2 tsp. light soy sauce
• 1/4 tsp. sugar
• 1 tsp. starch
• 1/4 tsp. salt

Starch water

• 3 tbsp. cornstarch or other starch
• 3 tbsp. water

Instructions

• Prepare the pork, marinate pork shreds with light soy sauce, sugar, salt and cornstarch. Mix well.
• In a wok, add carrots, bamboo shoots, wood ear mushroom, shiitake mushroom and ginger shreds. Add chicken stock, bring to a boiling and then simmer for 15 minutes.
• Add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar, and salt. Continue cooking for 2 minutes.
• Then place shredded tofu in. Then place pork shreds in and gently stir by chopstick when the content boils again.
• Stir the starch water once and then place the starch water in the soup. Heat to thicken.
• Drizzle egg liquid in. If you want smaller flowers, stirring at a faster speed. Or for larger flowers, stir roughly.
• Place black vinegar and white ground pepper in. Turn off fire immediately.
• Add some extra aroma by placing chopped green onion and coriander. Drizzle some sesame oil and serve hot.

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