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10-minute Hot & Sour Soup

For when you need comfort food fast – this is hearty, flavour-packed chicken soup in just 10 minutes. It’s a great way to use up leftover cooked chicken and tofu – as well as that pesky half a carrot that always seems to be in the crisper!

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10-minute Hot & Sour Soup

PREP TIME
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COOK TIME
10 minutes
SERVES
4
Ingredients

½ carrot*

6 cups chicken stock

1 cup (about 150g/5oz) cooked shredded chicken (left-over BBQ/rotisserie chicken is perfect)

200g (7oz) mixed mushrooms (e.g. shitake and enoki)

100g (3.5oz) firm tofu, sliced

100g (3.5oz) bamboo shoot strips

1 tsp ground black pepper

2 tsp dark soy sauce

¼ cup light soy sauce

¼ cup white vinegar

3 tbsp cornflour (cornstarch), mixed with 3 tbsp water

sea salt

finely chopped spring onion (scallions), to serve

Steps
  • Step 1

    Use a julienne peeler to shave thin strips of carrot into a saucepan.

  • Step 2

    To the carrot, add the chicken, mushrooms, tofu, bamboo shoots and chicken stock. Place the saucepan over high heat and bring to a gentle simmer. Add pepper, soy sauces and vinegar.  Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 2-3 minutes or until mushrooms are just softened.

  • Step 3

    Add cornstarch mixture to the soup and stir.  Simmer for another 3 minutes to thicken. Taste the soup and adjust seasoning to your taste. Add salt, vinegar and pepper to your liking. Ladle into bowls and sprinkle with spring onion.

  • Notes
    Notes:

    – Alternatively use pre-packaged carrot strips.

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Heather
March 13, 2023

Will make again

Added more vinegar but delicious

Tiffany
September 26, 2022

Wow so easy and yummy

This is amazing. I always assumed I was not skilled enough to make this (when i looked online and found 45 ingredient recipes) when I saw this I was so happy to see I had all the ingredients and I went right to work. I tweaked it some. Added chili paste. Added a pinch of sugar and, some scrambled egg at the end. But holy cow this is amazing. It would have been great just as written!! I’ll be making this a lot now. Thx so much.

Mimi
July 26, 2022

A new hot & sour fan

My husband has always loved hot & sour soup, but I’ve never been a big fan. I decided to make it for him after he’d had a stressful day, and figured I’d have just a bit.

I don’t like pork or mushrooms, so this chicken version looked good and I left out the mushrooms. I also used chili bamboo shoots and added some white pepper. Anyway, the result was surprisingly good! I’m a hot & sour fan now – at least this version!

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