Number Of Ingredients 16 Steps:
- Bring chicken stock to simmer 2. Add soy sauce, pork (raw julienned loin or cooked sausage), mushrooms, and chile paste. Simmer 10 minutes 3. Add pepper, vinegar, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, and tofu. Simmer 5 minutes 4. Add cornstarch and water mixture 5. Bring back to a simmer, and add julienned carrots. 6. Simmer for 5 minutes and add sesame oil. 7. Taste and adjust flavor by addition more vinegar, soy sauce, chile paste, or pump up chicken flavor with a packet or two of Chicken Flavor Burst. 7. Serve with chopped onions and cilantro on top of hot soup.
Time 45m Yield 6 servings (about 2 quarts). Number Of Ingredients 15 Steps:
In a Dutch oven, brown pork in oil until no longer pink; remove meat and keep warm. Add mushrooms; saute until tender. Set aside and keep warm. , Add the broth, soy sauce, chili garlic sauce and pepper to the pan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Return the meat and mushrooms to the pan. Stir in the tofu, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and vinegar. Simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes., In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and water until smooth; gradually stir into soup. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from the heat; stir in sesame oil. Garnish servings with onions.
Time 40m Yield 4 Number Of Ingredients 15 Steps:
Bring chicken broth to a simmer in a 2-quart saucepan. Add mushrooms, chicken, soy sauce, chile paste, and garlic. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add tofu, bamboo shoots, vinegar, and white pepper. Simmer for 5 minutes more. Combine water and cornstarch in a cup; stir until smooth. Add mixture to the soup and stir well. Let simmer until soup thickens, about 5 minutes more. Beat egg in a cup and slowly pour, in a fine stream, into the soup. Stir well and heat through for 30 seconds. Mix in green onions and sesame oil. Remove from heat; serve hot.
Yield 6 Number Of Ingredients 17 Steps:
Soak the dried mushrooms and tiger lily buds in warm water for 20 minutes. After trimming off any tough stems, slice the mushrooms. With the fingers, shred the tiger lily stems. Place the mushrooms, tiger lily buds, stock, bamboo shoots, and shredded pork into a saucepan. Bring to a boil, and simmer for 10 minutes. Stir in soy sauce, sugar, salt, white pepper, and vinegar. Combine cornstarch with 3 tablespoons water. Add a little of the hot soup to the cornstarch, and then return all to the pan. Heat to boiling, stirring. Add the bean curd, and cook 1 to 2 minutes. Just before serving, turn off the heat. Stir the egg in gradually. Mix in sesame oil. Sprinkle each serving with scallions.
Yield Makes 6 to 8 first-course servings Number Of Ingredients 21 Steps:
Toss pork with dark soy sauce in a bowl until pork is well coated. Soak black and tree ear mushrooms in 3 cups boiling-hot water in another bowl (water should cover mushrooms), turning over black mushrooms occasionally, until softened, about 30 minutes. (Tree ears will expand significantly.) Cut out and discard stems from black mushrooms, then squeeze excess liquid from caps into bowl and thinly slice caps. Remove tree ears from bowl, reserving liquid, and trim off any hard nubs. If large, cut tree ears into bite-size pieces. Stir together 1/4 cup mushroom-soaking liquid (discard remainder) with cornstarch in a small bowl and set aside. Meanwhile, soak lily buds in about 1 cup warm water until softened, about 20 minutes, then drain. Trim off tough tips of lily buds. Cut lily buds in half crosswise, then tear each half lengthwise into 2 or 3 shreds. Cover bamboo shoots with cold water by 2 inches in a small saucepan, then bring just to a boil (to remove bitterness) and drain in a sieve. Stir together vinegars, light soy sauce, sugar, and salt in another small bowl. Heat a wok over high heat until a bead of water vaporizes within 1 to 2 seconds of contact. Pour peanut oil down side of wok, then swirl oil, tilting wok to coat sides. Add pork and stir-fry until meat just changes color, about 1 minute, then add black mushrooms, tree ears, lily buds, and bamboo shoots and stir-fry 1 minute. Add broth and bring to a boil, then add tofu. Return to a boil and add vinegar mixture. Stir cornstarch mixture, then add to broth and return to a boil, stirring. (Liquid will thicken.) Reduce heat to moderate and simmer 1 minute. Beat eggs with a fork and add a few drops of sesame oil. Add eggs to soup in a thin stream, stirring slowly in one direction with a spoon. Stir in white pepper, then drizzle in remaining sesame oil and divide among 6 to 8 bowls. Sprinkle with scallions and cilantro before serving.
Time 40m Yield 4 serving(s) Number Of Ingredients 17 Steps:
Bring stock to a simmer. Add soy sauce, pork, mushrooms and chile paste. Simmer for 10 minute. Add pepper, vinegar, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, fungus and tofu. Simmer 5 minute. Mix cornstarch with 2 tablespoons water and add. Bring back to simmer and pour the eggs in a very thin stream over the surface. Let stand for 10 sec. before stirring in the sesame oil. Serve with a garnish of chopped scallions. NOTE: The pepper, chile paste and vinegar can be varied for taste. I also omit the pork and use less egg.
Time 45m Yield 6 serving(s) Number Of Ingredients 21 Steps:
Heat the oil in a large pot over medium-high flame. Add the smashed garlic, ginger paste, chili paste, shiitake and oyster mushrooms, and bamboo shoots. Cook 1-2 minutes, stirring constantly. Mix the soy sauce, vinegar, salt, pepper, and sugar in a small bowl, pour it into the pot. Cook 2-3 minutes to let flavors blend. Pour in the chicken broth, bring the soup to a boil, and simmer for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, dust pork with cornstarch. You will probably need about 2-3 tbsp, depending on how much pork you have. Season with a few shakes of white pepper and mix thoroughly. Heat a pan with 1 tbsp oil and fry pork until mostly cooked through. It will finish cooking in the soup but you want the outside a little brown. Add to soup. If you haven’t already, dissolve the 3 tbsp cornstarch in the 1/4 cup water and stir until smooth. Pour into the soup and continue to simmer 5 more minutes, until soup thickens. If using tofu, add at this step. Remove the soup from the heat and stir in 1 direction until the soup is spinning on its own. Then, slowly pour in eggs in a steady stream using a fork to stir if necessary to break up pieces. (The egg should be cooked almost immediately.). Add scallions and enjoy!
Time 48m Yield 8 servings Number Of Ingredients 15 Steps:
Soak mushrooms and lily flowers in boiling hot water for 20 minutes. Drain and reserve soaking liquid. In a large pot, combine soaking liquid and chicken stock. Bring to a boil and season with salt. Simmer 5 minutes, add tofu, exotic mushrooms and bok choy. Slowly add egg to soup, stirring gently. Then add pork or chicken. Cover and cook about 5 minutes. Stir a little of the hot stock into cornstarch paste and add this mixture to the soup. Cook another 2 minutes. Stir in sesame oil, vinegar, and chili paste or black pepper. Sprinkle with scallions and cilantro, serve immediately
Time 1h15m Yield 4 to 6 servings Number Of Ingredients 15 Steps:
Freeze the pork tenderloin until firm, about 30 minutes; slice it into very thin slices, then into narrow strips. Refrigerate the pork. Put the tree ear mushrooms in a small bowl and the shiitake in another. Bring a small pot of water to a boil. Pour the hot water over the mushrooms and set them aside to re-hydrate for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, combine the broth, garlic, ginger, in a large sauce pan. Crush the white part of 1 scallion with the side of a knife, add to the pan, simmer, covered for 15 minutes. Thinly slice the remaining scallions and reserve. Remove the mushrooms from the water and discard the liquid. Squeeze out any excess moisture from the shiitake and thinly slice. Remove the garlic, ginger, and scallion from the broth and discard. Add the mushrooms, soy, vinegar, pepper, and salt and bring to a simmer. Whisk in the cornstarch mixture, bring to a boil, and then simmer over medium heat for 5 minutes. Pour the egg into the soup and stir once to make delicate threads. Stir in the remaining scallions, oil, tofu, and pork, return to a simmer. Remove from the heat to prevent the meat from getting tough, adjust seasonings to taste. Serve immediately.
Time 1h Yield 6 servings Number Of Ingredients 21 Steps:
Soak the shiitakes and the wood ears separately in hot water to cover for 20 minutes. Remove any fat or gristle from the pork and discard. Cut the meat, across the grain, into 1/4-inch-thick slices. (You may partly freeze the meat to facilitate cutting.) Cut the slices into matchstick-size shreds and place in a bowl. Stir together the pork marinade ingredients and toss with the pork. Marinate for 10 minutes. Remove and discard the shiitake stems. Cut the caps into matchstick-size shreds. Cut away and discard the hard, bitter nib on the underside of the wood ears, then cut into matchstick-size shreds. Cut the tofu into thin slices and then into matchstick-size shreds. Combine the soup base ingredients in a large pot, and heat until boiling. Add several tablespoons of the hot broth to the pork shreds, and stir to separate; then add them to the pot and cook until they change color, about 1 minute. Skim impurities from the surface of the soup. Add the shiitakes, wood ears and tofu. Heat the mixture until boiling. Stir the water and cornstarch together and slowly add to the soup, stirring constantly to prevent lumps. Continue to skim the surface to remove impurities. When the soup has thickened, add the soup seasonings. Stir to blend, and taste for seasoning. If the soup is not spicy enough, add more vinegar and minced ginger. Remove the soup from the heat. Add the eggs, slowly pouring in a thin stream. Stir the soup once in a circular motion. Transfer the soup to a tureen and serve immediately.
