Easy Chinese Hot & Sour Soup Recipe
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- In today's episode of Wok Wednesday, Jeremy teaches us how to make a super simple, yet delicious, hot & sour soup!
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Great idea about blanching the bamboo shoots. I've previously just rinsed them. Thanks.
I love hot and sour soup and this one looks fantastic. I want to get my hands on a bowl of that.
Make yourself some! - Lee
I was on board until the 8 cups of cilantro at the end. and I like cilantro.
Just add a little bit and you'll be fine - Lee
"Making soup calms me down. Beat your eggs !". I bet the eggs don't quite agree with you.
Haha, I'm sure they don't - Lee
Hey Jeremy & colleagues - I'm thinking of making this for the first time but was thinking of either using shrimp instead of chicken, or using both in the soup. Doable?
Looks good. I clearly made a few mistakes when making this from scratch, so I'll probably use this recipe next time.
You won't regret it! - Lee
I'm sure this version is quite good, but . I prefer using pork slices, pickled daicon radish. Everything else great.
That sounds really good! - Lee
I spent several years honing my hot and sour soup recipe (i usually make it at least once a month). This recipe is pretty close to mine, and slightly more elaborate ... for example, I usually use some coarsely chopped mung bean sprouts (for crunch) if I dont have bamboo shoots or preserved veg (ex: baby corn) handy, and I usually like a little minced pork (for flavor and texture).
From memory, your ingredients look pretty spot on, right down to the black vinegar (a must), snd the small touch of sugar to balance the salt, pepper and umami. However, the dish is all about balance, so I wont know for sure until I try it.
This recipe was very well balanced, let us know how you find it once you make it! - Lee
I often make hot & sour soups. I add a quarter of a teaspoon of sesame oil to the eggs.
Jeremy,
Not sure how authentic it is but I first had this on HK island many years ago and they used lashings of cracked black pepper to give a different heat so when I make it at home that is how I do it. Like the videos.
Mike (down under)
Thanks, Mike! Give this recipe a go and let us know if it's anything like you had in HK - Lee
What is the name of the pickled-citron-mustard-vegetable powder?
It's Labor Day today, I just made this Hot & Sour Soup put slice napa cabbage instead of bamboo shoots, a lot of ginger paste, tiny slices of ginger, dried chili pepper, left over rotisserie chicken, etc. did the rest as to his instruction...well it's yummy 😏 Thx for posting this vid.
Sounds delicious! - Lee
Jeremy, in my travels I have come across 2 versions of the hot and sour soup (from the North and the other from the South) one that uses chilies for the spice and the other uses pepper. If I am honest I prefer the pepper version and I always make it more sour with extra vinegar. However, I will try your version and see how I get on.
You can always use more vinegar if you want! - Lee
No lily or lotus buds?
Elder trees you get a lot of the ear mushrooms. Especially on old dead beaches.
White pepper in the website recipe but Jeremy seems to have forgotten it. I'd guess it probably best added when you take the soup off the heat
I loves preserved vegetables.
Best for hangover minus tofu, never had tofu nor do I want to try it, looks like Greek cheese
No white pepper....?
This looks so good. Would like some now, I will try to make it. Thanks.
Let us know how it goes! - Chris
Did I miss something? No sugar? Also, I was taught to add the vinegar at the end, so the sourness does not get cooked down. It looks very good though. Never tried it with that preserved vegetable, gotta try that.
Can I have the name of pickled veg you used from the packet please so I can buy some thank you 🙏
YEEHAAA -- what a great lookin job yu did -- looks like it was not your first time -- ahahaha -- and the finished soup looks like some I had about 25 years ago when a new place opened up here in N.C. USA - it was being looked over by a guy from china that could barely speak english -- he was very peculiar about the hot and sour soup they made there - always checking on their work -- after he left to go to other restaurants - I think that was his job - the soup went downhill to the point of boxed stuff being used -- with MSG being used in it of all things - it was not anything like his soup - I would drive about 40 miles one way just to get soup and crab Rangoons - way better than the dozens and dozens of restaurants I have visited -- made my mouth water before and while eating - my favorite food it became -- nothing better to this day - sure do miss that particular taste -- toe curling taste it was -- yours looks like his -- unlike others somewhat -- where is it that I may get the ingrediencies without MSG in it to use -- even if i have to order from your country -- any suggestions ? ! ? - funny how yu make it look so easy -- ahahahaha -- I have eaten it at every place I go -- not the same --
I tried your soaked garlic technique and it worked well thanks Jeremy.
It's so easy isn't it! - Lee
My fiance's Chinese living in China and he has told me that the Heat one gets from hot and sour soup is strictly black pepper. He is right because I have overused black pepper on a couple of occasions and couldn't eat the recipe it was so hot.
white pepper
I guess it's time to go grocery shopping and try this out... hungryyyy hahah
You won't regret it! - Lee
Oh and use white pepper too.
Jeremy, video suggestion(s):
Picking, preparing, cleaning, maintaining other kitchen tools besides the wok, ie your knives, cutting boards, other pans etc
And I'd love to see one on basic knife/cleaver techniques
*Thank you again for your vids. They are very entertaining and educational.
Thanks! We're going to try and get some of these videos made at some point anyway, but thanks for the suggestions regardless! - Lee
Been my favourite since I was 9 years old and had it on my birthday at a restaurant in Chinatown Manchester
It's so good isn't it! You should give this recipe a go - Lee
There are loads of Chinese restaurants in Chinatown there, but there are also brilliant Chinese food stores there as well if you want to try any Chinese dishes...
Take your recipe in and they will tell / show you what each one is....brilliant area....excellent restaurants and foods....
Chinatown in Manchester?
Dave Mould I still remember my first trip to the woo sang market like it was yesterday. The sights sounds and smells
amazing
Robert Greenhouse yeah manchester. Why?
I have never had hot and sour soup that contained meat. It did however contain some sort of meat to make the broth along with mushrooms and tofu and other vegetables but no meat. Somehow putting pieces of meat in a hot and sour soup seems wrong.
Well we put chicken in it and it tasted so right - Lee
@@SchoolofWok good I'm glad. My insulin receptors do not function and I cannot process protein of the meat or animal variety. I am the only one in the world with all of my symptoms and the disease has not been named yet but is it is a genetic disorder which has many illnesses and problems stemming from non-functioning insulin receptors. You never know who you're speaking to or why they say what they do. Elizabeth
The only Hot And Sour soup I like is the store bought powdered ones from Knorr. (I know...blasphemy!). They have bits of dried chicken there and the texture is just right. Somehow fresh chicken meat just doesn't go with the taste of Hot and Sour soup.
Many recipes and most restaurants I have had it in use pork, though I would say it's not at all important for the flavor and for texture the bamboo shoots and mushrooms are the key.
@@TheDj4088 I live in Maine and the majority of hot and sour soups do not use meat. Which I am happy about because I get my mushrooms and my bamboo shoot I also get other vegetables and tofu. You just ask for hot and sour soup and that's how it comes. Have a great day! :-)
How to make coconut chicken / shrimp 🍻
Thanks for the suggestion! - Lee
Keep going, you're the best! Thanks!!!:-)
Thank you, glad you enjoy the videos! - Lee
Hi Jeremy what bran d is the cook top you use I have never come across one that woks sit down into is it induction electric or gas and what brand is it we live in australia .Regards Dean from oz
Hi, it's an AEG induction wok hob! - Lee
Need some Rain-X for the glasses?
That’s an idea I may just try myself, actually.
Are tiny windscreen wipers for glasses a thing? Also, I don't suppose you know how to patent an idea, do you? - Lee
I love this channel. I need a carbon steel wok. I delaminated my non stick wok trying to cook like you.
Thanks! Carbon steel woks are the way forward! bit.ly/2EcrXlF here's a link to our wok range! - Lee
Wow thanks. Great price! Are they signed?
Unfortunately they're not signed - Lee
Souped up recipes UA-cam channel sells her own wok
Hi, looks great 👍, does this freeze well?
jeremy, please explain the pickeled veg in the packet. I need to order it, or find it at my asian grocer..
please help. I dont understand what you meant in the video. I need a name brand, or a place to order it. thanks in advance. .... Love your Hot and sour soup video, it has inspired me to make this as a staple in my home. We had great hot and sour soup at a local restaurant, but he moved away. we also have very mediocre and underwhelming hot and sour soup available. Hence . I will make it at home. After all, eating very well at home, is the new going out to eat.
The preserved vegetable is called Suimiyacai! Glad to hear you like the video! - Lee
Оригинално! 🙂
Thanks!!!!!
No worries! - Lee
I absolutely love hot and sour soup but haven't had any for several years. I sadly developed an allergy to chili peppers. Is there any alternative source of heat that can be used?
Lots of black pepper! - Lee
dreyhawk : ground white pepper gives more heat than the black, you must try it. It’s the inside of black pepper corns, very different flavour. Use that and some black for amazing taste
Totally agree with Natasha on this...white pepper much better for the heat value, rather than black....
I can put what ever I want in my soup? Nice. Now I know what to do with my mysterious animal meat.
Do you often have a stockpile of mysterious animal meat? - Lee
Hahaha!
What if I cant find black vinegar what can I use instead ?
You can use normal vinegar if you can't find black vinegar - Lee
This was wonderful. thanks for sharing it.
You're welcome! - Lee
That fungus, here in the UK grows on alder, and is rather politically discorrectly known as Jew's Ear Fungus. It is pretty common and easily collected. It dries well too.
Didn't know about its other name! - Lee
Hi Jeremy need to know if you did a video on Pad Thai noodles recipe already. I wld like to try to do it. Thanks again II have never eaten tofu can you explain how it taste cause I know to make d pad thai u have to use tofu but can you use smthing else if I dont like it. Thanks again Jeremy from Trinidad come try our foods
We have a Pad Thai recipe on our channel, but it's not taught by Jeremy! Tofu tastes like whatever you marinate it with, it just absorbs flavour! - Lee
Ok thanks again but if you want to leave it out can u?
Of course! - Lee
Lovely!
Thank you! - Lee
This recipe looks good. BUT there are a lot of bad recipes for this soup. All are loaded with ingredients. Trying a new recipe can turn out to be a long, expensive, failed experiment. I've tried a lot of bad recipes before I found a good one. The important part of this soup is getting the broth right.
Suggestions.... 1. before adding all the ingredients, try making just the broth. Don't waste all the extra ingredients till you are sure the broth is good. This is only common sense. eg...when trying a new recipe for sweet and sour shrimp... first do a test batch of the sauce. Shrimp is too expensive to add to an experimental sauce.
2. for heat in hot and sour soup, use white pepper ( a chinese chef taught me this). It's a nice clean heat without all the weird flavours that other hot ingredients often have. Weird hot sauces and pastes often kill the overall flavour of the soup.
3. shredded black mushrooms.... buy them in a bag dehydrated and pre shredded. Just throw in a handful. Soaking and cutting mushrooms is a big waste of time and you can never cut them as well as the bagged ones. Not many Chinese restaurants waste time cutting those tough, slippery mushrooms.
Good advice! - Lee
I too have gone through many recipes to get this soup right and definitely agree with the white pepper. A good stock and chinkiang vinegar also important. Now after watching this I may have to try the preserved vegetable, I don't recall ever seeing it used in this soup.
gord johnson 1
Gord johnson please give me a nice recipe of hot and sour soup if you have thanks
can you substitute the chicken broth for beef? I'm allergic to chicken.. ;-\
I don't see why not! - Lee
I like the recipe from "Souped Up Recipes"....it seems you forgot the white pepper, which I thought was key. otherwise, good show, but Lee, we need to see the food more than your talking face, we love you man!
Brilliant.
Thanks! - Lee
Amazing
Thanks! - Lee
at 3:17 is this pickeled mustard greens???
Yes it is! - Lee
i found it at my local asian market. taste excellant, out of the package. not foil like yours, but a nice handful of real pickled full size mustard green. mmmYUM ! ! !thanks so much. Also, I must agree with gord johnson.. make the broth first, then ingredients. I found shredded Shroooms, I'm in . My next attempt should be right on. Thanks for posting and all the comments also.
Please make a Hppy Family recipe. I can not find a good one
What is a Happy Family recipe? - Lee
mad scientist:)
You forgot to add the eye of newt.....
That's only if you want to put a curse on someone - Lee
Any thoughts on adding a handful of peas (or petit pois)?
My first introduction to Hot and Sour Soup had peas in it.
You can add whatever you like! Think of our recipes as a rough guide! - Lee
How can i eat????where do you cook at,??????
We're not a restaurant! - Lee
@@SchoolofWok where are you based at.?????
@@SchoolofWok your soup is very lovely,do you cook for anyone,I know your not a restaraunt...!!!! Too bad for that...!!!!!!
We're in Covent Garden in London, we don't cook for anyone but we show you how to cook Asian food! - Lee
I hate wood ear! It's like you can never chew it all the way it's just rubber bands! I eat around it in my hot and sour soup or I swallow it whole if it's short enough.
Happy to see you used chicken instead of pork so a Jew like me can eat it.... My favorite soup.... Thanks....
No worries Bill, glad you enjoyed the recipe! - Lee
could you teach us to make tofu
Like actual tofu, or did you mean a dish with tofu in it? - Lee
@@SchoolofWok actual tofu. there are a few videos but I think your explanation is needed
love your video ..🤓 .... yvummy
Thank you! - Lee
Even an "easy" hot & sour soup is a 20 ingredient dish!
It's easy because you don't need to do much besides from putting everything together! - Lee
Hi there could you please make sanpei chicken, i just subscribe to your channel appologies if i didnt see your channel that much. Thanx
I'll add it to our suggestions list! - Lee
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Love your accent. Need the brand of all the ingredients.
Most of the bottled ingredients are from Lee Kum Kee, i.e. soy sauce, sesame oil etc. Not too sure about the broad bean chilli paste and the preserved veg, however. - Lee
Jeremy bangs his utensils too loudly and frequently.
Greg MacIntyre my neighbor does a similar routine, but with hookers instead
I think you're so cute Jeremy, and you cant speak Chinese? but you have a heavy accent.. like you were designed to speak Chinese.. gosh You're so cute..:) ..
Too much work, for such low price point.
it aint about price, its all about flavor, and enjoying a great soup. being nurtured.also I will leave out the meat. I am making my own broths, for cooking at home, so my hot sour soup will be the best it can be.
I disagree that this is a simple-to-prepare soup. The prep takes a couple of hours.
I don't care for egg strands in the soup. It's nicer with clear broth.
You know what else calms me down? Beating my eggs 😏
That's.. er.. good to know? - Lee
Kinda too deep right? I mean isn't it easier to beat your meat?
Is there a way I can opt out of this discussion? - Lee
mugensamurai gotta fondle the eggs a little too you know?
School of Wok nope this is a healthy and active discussion about food :)
It may be hot and it may be sour, but it's not hot and sour soup.
Not easy at all.
What are you finding difficult? - Lee
So simple just buy 15 things off the internet that you can’t find at a store anywhere near you!
There's nothing easier than clicking a few buttons to be fair - Lee
Totally agree. Maybe this was a video for practicing chefs.
Whole Foods Market sells these items.
i bought everything except the veg packet at my local asian store.1 stop
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Don´t like tofu. This is not a soup actually, it is kind of thick stew.
Take the tofu out then - Lee
I have had the thin, Hunan(?) style, but I have always preferred substantial hot & sour soups: it’s peasant food, nourishing, satisfying, and very healthy for hard-working people. Good for the soul, too.
That camera bouncing up and down made me seasick 🤢
I knew we shouldn't have filmed this episode on a boat - Lee
_"IT'S RAW!! YOU DONKEY!!"_
Makes me feel dizzy. The move ment of the camera did it. Plus the over confident face of the cook. Damn it.
You are not that good looking. So please focus the camera more in to what you are cooking.
I do not like this channel. Unsubscribe. The cook is feeling celebrity and over confident.
Want to talk about it? - Lee
Don't watch then. We don't need you here.
Get back to your mommy's basement...troll...😯
what happened, can't cook Chinese food ya nasty troll?
Оригинално! 🙂