Hot and Sour Soup

Tyler Florence

Recipe courtesy Tyler Florence

Show: Food 911Episode: Chinese Spare Ribs

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Total Time:
2 hr 20 min
Prep
30 min
Inactive
30 min
Cook
1 hr 20 min
Yield:
4 to 6 servings
Level:
Intermediate
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Ingredients

  • 4 dried Chinese fungi (about 1 ounce), such as wood ears or cloud ears
  • 2 tablespoons canola oil
  • 1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and grated
  • 1 tablespoon red chile paste, such as sambal oelek
  • 1/2 cup canned bamboo shoots, sliced
  • 1/4 pound barbecued pork, shredded
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup rice vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
  • Pinch sugar
  • 2 quarts Chinese Chicken Stock, recipe follows
  • 1 square firm tofu, drained and sliced in 1/4-inch strips
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 1/4 cup water
  • 1 large egg, lightly beaten
  • Chopped green onions and cilantro leaves, for garnish

Directions

Put the wood ears in a small bowl and cover with boiling water. Let stand for 30 minutes to reconstitute. Drain and rinse the wood ears; discard any hard clusters in the centers.

Heat the oil in a wok or large pot over medium-high flame. Add the ginger, chili paste, wood ears, bamboo shoots, and pork; cook and stir for 1 minute to infuse the flavor. Combine the soy sauce, vinegar, salt, pepper, and sugar in a small bowl, pour it into the wok and toss everything together - it should smell really fragrant. Pour in the Chinese Chicken Stock, bring the soup to a boil, and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the tofu and cook for 3 minutes.

Dissolve the cornstarch in the water and stir until smooth. Mix the slurry into the soup and continue to simmer until the soup thickens. Remove the soup from the heat and stir in 1 direction to get a current going, then stop stirring. Slowly pour in the beaten eggs in a steady stream and watch it spin around and feather in the broth (it should be cooked almost immediately.) Garnish the hot and sour soup with chopped green onions and cilantro before serving.

Chinese Chicken Stock:

  • 1 (4-pound) whole chicken
  • 1 bunch green onions, halved
  • 4 garlic cloves, smashed
  • 3-inch piece fresh ginger, whacked open with the flat side of a knife
  • 1 onion, halved
  • 1 teaspoon whole white peppercorns
  • About 3 quarts cold water

Put the chicken in a large stockpot and place over medium heat. Toss in the green onions, garlic, ginger, onion, and peppercorns. Pour about 3 quarts of cold water into the pot to cover the chicken by 1-inch. Simmer gently for 1 hour, uncovered, skimming off the foam on the surface periodically.

Carefully remove the chicken from the pot and pass the stock through a strainer lined with cheesecloth to remove the solids and excess fat. Cool the chicken stock to room temperature before storing in the refrigerator, or chill it down over ice first.

Yield: About 2 quarts

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  • on January 23, 2012

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    The soup was not as hot or as sour as I would have liked. I added more chili paste and more vinegar. If you use a prepared chicken stock, you might want to add a little less stock but supplement the liquid with some water. My soup tasted to 'chicken-ey".

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  • on January 18, 2012

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    I didn't have any pork and it was still perfectly delicious.

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  • on January 14, 2012

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    This was very good. My husband thought it needed more bite, as in from the vinegar, but I thought it was perfect. I added mushrooms and shrimp. Yum.

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