This vegan hot and sour soup is tastily made with silky smooth tofu, mushrooms, and mung bean thread. Each slurp has peppery heat with a touch of vinegar that you can easily serve as-is or with a bowl of rice or noodles.
Prep Time10minutes mins
Cook Time20minutes mins
Total Time30minutes mins
Course: Main Course, Side Dish, Soup
Cuisine: Asian, Chinese
Keyword: 30-minute, soup
Servings: 3
Author: woonheng
Ingredients
12 oz silken or soft tofu
4 dried Shiitake mushrooms or use fresh
10 g wood ear mushrooms
50 g [1 bunch] dried mung bean thread soak in water until soft
Prepare the mushrooms: Place dried Shiitake and wood ear mushrooms in separate bowls and soak them in 1 cup of water until soft. If you are using fresh Shiitake mushrooms, skip this step.
Once the mushrooms are soft, squeeze out the water. Keep the mushrooms water for later. Cut the mushrooms into thin strips. For wood ear mushrooms, remove the tough ends before slicing.
Next, heat a 5-quart pan wauté (water sauté) mushrooms and carrots until the mushrooms release their aroma. Add the wood ear mushrooms and bamboo shoot, then stir-fry for a few seconds over medium-low heat.
Swirl in the soy sauce around the side of the pan and quickly stir the mixture to combine. Mix the mushrooms water in water to make 6 cups of liquid, then add to the pot.
Season with ground pepper, Shao Xing wine, sugar, and mushroom seasoning. Give the mixture a quick stir and add the mung bean thread and tofu.
Bring the mixture to a boil and cook for another minute or so. Taste and season if needed.
Now, mix 2 tablespoons of cornstarch in 3 tablespoons of water until well combined. Add this thick slurry into the soup while stirring continuously. The soup should start to thicken by now. If not, add more cornstarch slurry.
Turn off the heat and ladle the soup into a large bowl.
Swirl in the vinegar and add a splash of Sriracha sauce. Finally, garnish with fried wonton strips and chopped cilantro. Serve warm.
Notes
*The 1 teaspoon ground white pepper is meant to give the soup the heat. If you don’t like the peppery taste, please start with 1/4 teaspoon and increase it to your likings.
For those who can’t have Shao Xing wine, please skip this ingredient
Vinegar: Most vinegar will work such as distilled vinegar, white wine vinegar, red vinegar, black vinegar, or rice vinegar.
I may need to generalize the title of this category one day. If I ever come across an article, book, post, interview even vaguely related to the madness we have all lived through during (oddly enough, now that I think of it) the last election cycle – it will be posted here.
I am the last person to enjoy jumping into (what I have always considered to be) the trivialitiesof partisan politics. I’ve always viewed it as a ridiculous head game foisted by the wealthy & powerful upon the unsuspecting electorate. I just refused to participate. But when my (and my family’s) personal autonomy was arrogantly violated by the authoritarian tactics of our institutions & our “over-class” I no longer viewed it as a game.
I didn’t want it to be about politics. I genuinely view political organizations (most ALLof them) with a healthy dose of suspicion. That hasn’t changed. I distrust institutions and the people embroiled in them. I’m a simple woman. I am only interested in those who support our individual sovereignty and only to the extent that I find their ideas rational. So I can agree and disagree with them at the same time.
In that spirit I share with you the following conversation:
Russ & Tuck – eloquent analysis of world’s condition.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned sovereign nations that those states that refuse to comply with the globalists’ “New Order” will pay the price when so-called “Disease X” is unleashed on the public.
According to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the “New World Order” will be ushered in when states sign the United Nations “health” agency’s “Pandemic Treaty.”
By signing the treaty, countries will enable the United Nations (UN) and WHO be establish an unelected single world government.
Under the condition of the treaty, nations will need to surrender their powers to the UN for the sake of the “New Order.”
The WHO is now demanding that all member states sign the treaty in order to be “protected” from “Disease X.”
Those who fail to comply will be signing a death warrant for their citizens, Tedros warns.
Steve Watson and Professor Michel Chossudovsky expounded on this conspiracy in a Jan. 25 piece published by the Center for Research on Globalization.
They quoted a piece by Forbes about Disease X, which is used by medical tyrants to “encourage the development of countermeasures, including vaccines and tests, to deploy in the case of a future outbreak.”
According to the article…
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