Make Hot and Sour Soup Easily

Hot and sour soup

Ingredients

• Oil – 1 tablespoon
• Onion – 1 small, finely chopped
• Ginger – 1 inch piece, finely chopped
• Garlic – 3 cloves, finely chopped
• Celery – 2 inch piece
• French beans – 4
• Button Mushrooms – 4
• Carrot – ½ medium
• Cabbage – ½ cup chopped roughly
• Soy sauce – 3 tablespoons
• Green chili sauce – 3 tablespoons
• Vegetable stock – 5 cups
• Corn flour – 3 tablespoons
• Salt – to taste
• Black papper poweder – ½ teaspoon or to taste
• Sugar – ½ teaspoon
• White vinegar – ½ teaspoon
• Green pepper – ¼ small, finely chopped
• Spring onion (greens only) – cut at diagonal for garnishing

Instructions

1. Food process celery, french beans, button mushrooms, carrot and cabbage until finely chopped.
2. Heat the oil in a pot.
3. Add onions, ginger and garlic. Saute till translucent.
4. Add celery, french beans, button mushrooms, carrot and cabbage. Saute for 3 minutes.
5. Add soy sauce and green chili sauce, mix well.
6. Add 4 ½ cups of vegetable stock.
7. Add sugar, salt and black pepper powder.
8. Add cornflour to ½ cup of vegetable stock, mix and add it to soup.
9. Add green pepper, vinegar. Let it boil for 2 minutes.
10. Garnish it with green onions and serve hot.