Hot and Sour Soup

 Hot and sour soup is a very tasty, healthy and easy to prepare simple and delicious soup adding mushroom, carrot, cabbage, capsicum and spring onion.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Hot and Sour Soup.

Ingredients:-

Mushroom.        -5 or 6
Carrot.               -1
Cabbage.            -2 tbsp
Capsicum.          -1tbsp
Spring onion.     -4
Garlic cloves.     -2
Ginger.                -1/2 inch
Green chilly.       -1
Pepper powder.   -2 tsp
Red chilly sauce.-1tbsp
Dark soya sauce.-1tbsp
Vinegar.              -1tbsp
Sugar.                 -1tsp
Cornflour.           -2 tbsp
Salt.                    -to taste
Oil.                    -1tsp
Water.        -4 cup + 2 tbsp

Instructions:-

1). Wash and thinly chop mushroom, carrot, cabbage, capsicum, spring onion, green chilly, ginger and garlic cloves. Keep aside.

2). In a bowl add 2 tbsp cornflour and 2 tbsp water and mix well without lumps and make cornflour slurry and keep aside.

Method:-

1). Heat 1tsp oil in a pan and add chopped white parts of spring onion, chopped ginger, garlic and green chilly and saute well on high flame.

2). Add chopped carrot, capsicum, mushroom and cabbage into the pan and saute well for a minute.

3). Add 4 cups of water into the pan and allow it to come to boil. Add red chilly sauce, dark soya sauce, pepper powder, vinegar, sugar and required salt into the pan and mix well.

4). Add corn flour slurry into the pan and mix well.

5). Add chopped green parts of spring onion and mix well. Switch off the flame. Adjust the taste of the soup according by adding vinegar for sourness, pepper powder for spiciness.

Very tasty Hot and Sour Soup is ready to serve hot.