Chicken Soup

Chicken Hot and Sour Soup

Ingredients

1. ​Chicken Broth 4 Cups
2. Boiled Shredded Chicken 1cup : 1leg, 1 thigh, 2 oz of boneless breast
3. Garlic/ginger paste 1 tsp
4. Salt 1TBS
5. White or black pepper 1TBS
6. Sesame oil 2 TBS
7. Vinegar 1TBS more for garnish
8. Soya sauce 1TBS more for garnish
9. Corn starch ITBS
10. Egg 1
11. Celery stalk: 2 finely diced
12. Carrots 2 long carrots finely sliced
13. Spring onions 4 finely
    

            Garnish

• ​Chopped Cilantro
  
• Serve with:
  
• Crackers, hot sauce, Vinegar and soya sauce

How to:

• Sauté in ITBS of oil two pieces of chicken with bone and 2 pieces of boneless with ginger garlic paste until chicken change its color but dont let it get brown.
• Add salt, pepper, vinegar and Soya sauce
• Add six cups of water. Boil until four cups remain . Check with fork if all pieces are cooked from inside and  no traces of blood remain.
• Take chicken out and pull apart the bones and shred all pieces. Set aside
• In another pan saute all the vegetables in another TBS of oil except the spring opinions and cilantro
• Now add shredded chicken and mix well.
• Pour chicken broth and let it boil.
• When boiling add the beaten egg white slowly and keep stirring.
• At last mix cornstarch in equal amount of l water to make a paste.  Slowly add the paste to the soup  and keep stirring.
• Let the soup boil until it reached the desired thickness.
• Add spring  onions almost to the end.
• ​Garnish with cilantro. Serve hot with crackers,  hot sauce ,soya sauce and vinegar.