Photo: Chinese Dumpling Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 cups low-sodium chicken or mushroom broth
- 1 2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and julienned or cut into match sticks
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce, preferably dark
- 1/4 cup Shaohsing rice cooking wine or pale dry sherry
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar/or 2 tablespoons black vinegar
- 2 teaspoons dark sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 2 carrots, thinly sliced on the bias- about 1 cup
- 24 frozen Chinese dumplings, pork, shrimp, or 1 pound package
- 3 scallions (white and green parts), thinly sliced
- 4 cups bag baby spinach
- chopped cilantro (optional)
- Asian chili paste (optional)
Directions
Put the broth, ginger, soy, wine, vinegar, sesame oil, sugar and salt in a soup pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Adjust the heat so the broth simmers and cooks to lightly flavor with ginger, about 10-15-minutes.
Add the carrots, and simmer until tender and cooked through, about 5 minutes. Just before serving, add the dumplings, cook for 3 minutes, stir in the scallions and spinach and cook until the greens wilt, about 1 minute. Divide among warm bowls and serve. Serve with chili sauce on the side if desired.
Optional- Cook the dumplings according to package directions for potstickers- Serve dumplings on the side of soup.
Photograph by Antonis Achiellos
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By francc
on August 06, 2012
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Great use for many vegetables left in the fridge. I love the little chicken dumplings from Trader Joes. I think they are called Su Mai. Delicious for soup. Also their wontons. I like dumplings but prefer the less doughy Su Mai and wontons.
By ClineMommaX2
Boynton Beach,
on May 26, 2012
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I loved making this. It was very easy, time consuming due to the vegetable chopping (by hand. I made this for my extended family who loved it. I accidentally left out the ginger but it was still good. The cilantro and the chili paste were also not used. The family is not big into spicy. But I will do the ginger next time and I highly recommend it. My toddlers loved it. I had a hard time finding the premade dumplings/wontons. But I found some by P.F. Chang in the frozen isle (a little pricy at $6.00 for 12oz. I got 3 bags, either way for about $50 I fed 6 adults and 2 toddlers. I also added fried rice to it as a side dish. Perfect.
By makichandes_8212256
Northern MI
on January 23, 2012
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Just made this yesterday for Chinese New Year! So good, everyone loved the broth especially! Very quick and easy to make. Definitely a tradition maker here!
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