Sally Ives Hot & Sour Soup

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Thanks so much to Sally for letting me share her soup recipe & I have converted it to the Thermomix of course. Sally does Chinese cooking classes from her gorgeous home in Lymington, (just past Cygnet) Tasmania. They are great value & so much delicious fun! To find out about Sally’s classes you can email her sallypixies@hotmail.com.

Sally’s Hot & Sour Soup recipe -in the foreground you can see the the ingredients used in the soup- sichuan pepper, dried wood ear mushrooms & dried shitake mushrooms & Chinese style knife all purchased at our local Asian grocers.

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Sally Ives Hot & Sour Soup
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Recipe type: Soup
Cuisine: Chinese
Serves: 4
 
Sally's original recipe is made using a wok not a Thermomix 🙂
Ingredients
  • Cooking Oil
  • 20 schichuan peppercorns
  • 1 - 2 Spring onions finely chopped
  • A few slices of ginger
  • a few dried shitake mushrooms soaked, strained, stems removed (keep the soaking water)
  • optional - a few dried black fungus/wood ears, soaked, strained & thinly sliced
  • 400g fresh, frozen or bottled tomatoes roughly chopped
  • 2- 3 tbs soy sauce
  • 1 litre of stock/water include the mushroom straining water into this (you can use 1 tbs of stock paste & water)
  • ground white pepper to taste
  • Chinese black vinegar to taste
  • Salt to taste
  • 400g medium firm tofu sliced
  • 2 eggs
  • sesame oil
  • fresh coriander & extra sliced spring onions to serve
Instructions
  1. Add Sichuan pepper to a dry wok & roast till it starts to smoke, add about 1 tablespoon of oil (Sally uses rice bran oil) allow the pepper to turn black. Turn off the heat.
  2. Add the ginger to the TM bowl & chop 3 secs, speed 7.
  3. Add Shitake mushrooms & chop 3 secs, speed 7, scrape down the TM bowl.
  4. Add the oil & Sichuan pepper along with the spring onions, shitake mushrooms & wood ear mushrooms & cook for 3 mins, varoma temperature, reverse, speed 1.
  5. Add the tomatoes & soy sauce & cook for 5 mins, 100 degrees, reverse, speed 1.
  6. Add the liquid/stock & black vinegar & white pepper to taste keep adding & then tasting until you are happy with the flavour.
  7. Mix cornflour with a little water & add to the soup, bring it up to the boil again, 2 mins 100 degrees, reverse speed 1.
  8. Add simmering basket & place tofu into the basket & cook for 2 mins, 100 degrees, speed soft reverse. Remove tofu & basket & keep warm in a Thermoserver.
  9. Whisk the 2 eggs together in a bowl. Set the TM for 1 min, 100 degrees, reverse speed 2 & slowly pour in the egg mixture.
  10. Serve with the warm tofu placed into each bowl & pour hot soup on top & garnish with spring onion & or fresh coriander.

 

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