Hot And Sour Soup Recipe

Hot And Sour Soup Recipe is a 'fat free' spicy aromatic soup, flavoured with lemon grass and simmered with mushrooms and baby corn.

Cooking Time and Serve Estimate for Hot And Sour Soup Recipe

Preparation Time : 15 min.
Cooking Time : 30 min.

Serves 4.

Ingredients for making Hot And Sour Soup Recipe

1 seasoning cube(veg.)
7 cloves garlic
50 mm(2') piece ginger, cut into thin strips
5 stalks lemon grass, tied
1/4 cup chopped coriander
3 green chillies, slit
3 tablespoons sliced canned mushrooms
7 nos. baby corn, cut diagonally
1 teaspoon lemon juice

For the garnish

2 tablespoons spring onion, finely cut
2 tablespoons chopped coriander
2 tablespoons carrots, cut into thin strips

Method to proceed to prepare Hot And Sour Soup Recipe

1. Tie the lemon grass stalks and coriander together using some lemon grass.

2. Boil 5 cups of water in a pan. Add the seasoning cube, garlic, ginger, lemon grass and coriander (tied together), cover and simmer for 15 minutes.

3. When the aroma stasrts getting released, discard the garlic, ginger, lemon grass and coriander bunch.

4. Add the chillies, mushrooms, baby corn and salt and simmer for another 15 minutes in the covered pan.

5. Add the lemon juice just before serving.

6. Garnish the soups bowl with spring onions, coriander and carrot, pour the hot soup over it and serve at once.