Savoury Szechuan Soup
posted in Soup |Need something to spice up your taste buds? Try Szechuan.
A quick soup to prepare using these ingredients:, wood ear, mushroom, char choy( a hot and spicy preserved vegetable) and chicken. Wood ear is a type of fungus, often use in chinese cooking and the Japanese too. Before using , soak the fungus in warm water for 30 minutes to soften it. Soak the chinese mushrooms in the same way too. Clean and put aside for later use.
Ingredients:
Chicken, wood ear, and mushrooms, carrot and char choy, cut into strips:
200 gm chicken
30 gm wood ear, soaked and clean
30 gm mushroom, soaked and clean
2 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon minced garlic and ginger
1 egg
2 stalk spring onion and parsley, cut into strips
1 litre water
char choy
1 carrot
Method:
Put 2 tablespoon oil in the pot and fry the minced garlic and ginger untill fragrant. Stir in chicken strips and fry for 2 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients, except spring onion and parsley. Stir-fry awhile and add water. Bring to the boil. Lower heat and simmer for for 15 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste and a dash of MSG. Break an egg and spread into the soup. Garnish with parsley . Remove to serve.
