Cooking Recipe Chinese: Hot & Sour Soup With Tofu
Recipe Ingredients
3 tb
Vegetable oil
2 lg
Sweet red peppers, cored,
-seeded and cut into
-3/4"x1/4" strips
-(about 3/4 cup)
1 sm
Bunch green onions, cut
-diagonally into 3/4" pieces
-(about 1 1/2
-cups)
2 c
Chicken broth, canned OR
-homemade
2 c
Vegetable stock OR water
-(stock recipe in next post)
2 tb
Soy sauce
2 ts
Red wine vinegar
1/2 ts
Crushed red pepper flakes
1/4 ts
Salt
1/8 ts
Pepper
2 tb
Cornstarch
3 tb
Water
1 ts
Oriental sesame oil
1/2 lb
Snow peas, fresh or frozen
1 lb
Firm tofu, drained and cut
-into 1/2" cubes
1 cn
(8 oz.) sliced water
-chestnuts, drained
Directions
Makes 8 Servings
Heat oil in large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add peppera snd
onion; stir fry about 5 minutes.
Add chicken broth, vegetable stock and soy sauce. Bring to boiling.
Lower heat; simmer for about 5 minutes. Stir together vinegar, red
pepper flakes, salt, pepper, cornstarch, water and sesame oil in a
small bowl until smooth. Add to soup with fresh snow peas; cook for
about 5 minutes or until thickened and bubbly. Add tofu, frozen snow
peas if using, and water chestnuts. Gently heat through.
Makes 8 servings (about 8 cups)