Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, egg drop tofu soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Egg drop tofu soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Egg drop tofu soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Growing up, my family had a tradition of eating lunch at our local little Chinese restaurant every single Saturday. Egg drop soup recipe 蛋花汤 is the easiest Chinese soup recipe to prepare. Chinese restaurants usually have high-quality soup stock as the base of the soup. (Check our Miso soup with tofu here).
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have egg drop tofu soup using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Egg drop tofu soup:
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Take 1 cup tofu ,cubed
- Prepare 1/2 cup mushrooms, sliced
- Make ready 1/4 cup bean sprouts (optional)
- Prepare 6 cups vegetable or chicken stock
- Get 2 tbsp miso
- Prepare 1 tbsp soy sauce
- Make ready 8 peppercorns
- Take 4-6 cloves
- Make ready 2 star anise
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
- Get 1 1/2 inch ginger sliced
- Get salt
- Prepare chopped spring onions to garnish
Even though egg drop soup is served at many Chinese restaurants, it wasn't something my family ordered when we went out to eat. Our version usually contained corn kernels and sometimes ground pork, but I've also had it with pieces of soft tofu and have seen recipes that add winter melon or even. Since it's approaching winter in Minnesota, I have been cooking lots of comfort food, like soup and stew to ward of the cold. And if you need something hot and delicious and super quick to prepare, then you will be glad to have this smashed tofu egg drop soup in your arsenal.
Instructions to make Egg drop tofu soup:
- Boil chicken or vegetable stock, add ginger, cinnamon stick, miso paste in a deep pan. In a tea strainer, place star anise, peppercorns and cloves and add to the pan.
- Add soy sauce and tofu and bean sprouts and simmer for 5 mins on medium heat
- This step is optional: - Add 2 Tbsp of corn flour with little water and add to pan for thickening and mix well for 2 mins.
- In a bowl, crack the eggs and whisk with fork. - Using fork, pour the eggs to the pan like long ribbons. Simmer for 3 mins and turn off the stove
- Transfer the soup in a bowl and garnish with spring onions and enjoy!!!
All you need is some chicken. Egg drop soup was always her first choice. You don't need to add tons of spices like star anise and cloves because it overpowers the delicate egg flavor. The name "Egg Drop" comes from how the soup is made—dropping raw egg into hot soup. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
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