Low Carb Chinese Hot & Sour Soup
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 4 (14 1/2 ounce) cans chicken broth
- 6 ounces sliced fresh white button mushrooms
- 1 tablespoon chili-garlic sauce
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 3⁄4 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch (mixed with 5 tbs. water)
- 1 (8 ounce) can sliced bamboo shoots (drained)
- 1 (8 ounce) can sliced water chestnuts (drained)
- 8 dried shiitake mushroom caps (soaked in a little hot water for 1/2 hour, squeezed dry and then sliced; add water mushrooms were so)
- 16 ounces silken tofu or 16 ounces extra firm tofu (diced and drained)
- 1⁄4 cup rice wine vinegar (or regular white)
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
directions
- Add chicken broth, soy sauce, garlic chili sauce and both kinds of mushrooms to dutch oven.
- Bring to boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, tofu, white pepper, sesame oil and cornstarch mixture.
- Simmer 10 minutes.
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Reviews
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Pretty close to the standard Chinese-American Hot and Sour Soup found in most restaurants except for a few things. A) Missing Black Wood Ear Mushrooms B) Missing eggs blended into the broth (like ribbons) C) Missing dried lily buds (flower aka Gum Jum Choi) D) The water chestnuts are a wonderful addition but not usually found in the traditional method. E) Chili-Garlic Sauce isn't traditional but I'm sure it tastes good (meaning it's fine or add some crushed red pepper instead though also not traditional). F) In China the most basic uses either water as the base or vegetable stock. Chicken or Beef stocks make a wonderful addition though not traditional. Now for the "Low-Carb" issues (problems) 1) Replace Soy Sauce with Tamari Sauce (Byproduct of making Miso which is made from fermented soybeans with NO wheat). Naturally wheat free so it is gluten free as well. 2) Most in the Keto and Low Carb crowd don't approve of highly inflammatory refined seed and legume oils so no sesame, peanut, soy, canola, etc. Use Avocado, Olive, Coconut, Butter, Lard, Tallow, etc. 3)Absolutely NO Corn Starch, Rice Starch, etc. is to be used in keto/low-carb foods. Use Egg Yolks, Guar Gum, Thick It Up by Dixie Diner, etc. Be careful using Arrowroot as well since it can quickly add up to too many carbs.
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This version is very close to the hot and sour soup that I love, made just as is, but next time I may make some changes to suit my own taste: decrease the rice wine vinegar to 2 Tbls; I wont skimp on the 30 minutes to soak the shitake mushrooms, because they were chewy; I may try using straw mushrooms in place of the button mushrooms-although they were just fine;4-6oz extra firm tofu is plenty(unless you're a tofu lover)cut into small thin strips; and I will cut the bamboo shoots into thin matchstick slices as well. Thank-you though for giving me a great place to start!
Tweaks
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This version is very close to the hot and sour soup that I love, made just as is, but next time I may make some changes to suit my own taste: decrease the rice wine vinegar to 2 Tbls; I wont skimp on the 30 minutes to soak the shitake mushrooms, because they were chewy; I may try using straw mushrooms in place of the button mushrooms-although they were just fine;4-6oz extra firm tofu is plenty(unless you're a tofu lover)cut into small thin strips; and I will cut the bamboo shoots into thin matchstick slices as well. Thank-you though for giving me a great place to start!
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