Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, egg drop tofu soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Smashed Tofu Egg Drop Soup The Ingredients. Since it's approaching winter in Minnesota, I have been cooking lots of comfort food, like soup and stew to ward of the cold. And if you need something hot and delicious and super quick to prepare, then you will be glad to have this smashed tofu egg drop soup in your arsenal.
Egg drop tofu soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Egg drop tofu soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have egg drop tofu soup using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Egg drop tofu soup:
- Take 4 eggs
- Make ready 1 cup tofu ,cubed
- Prepare 1/2 cup mushrooms, sliced
- Get 1/4 cup bean sprouts (optional)
- Make ready 6 cups vegetable or chicken stock
- Take 2 tbsp miso
- Prepare 1 tbsp soy sauce
- Get 8 peppercorns
- Make ready 4-6 cloves
- Take 2 star anise
- Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
- Prepare 1 1/2 inch ginger sliced
- Make ready salt
- Take chopped spring onions to garnish
The beauty of egg drop soup lies in the fact that it contains only three core ingredients, and they're all kitchen staples. First up is the broth, chicken being the most common. I fondly remember the sound of the can opener working on cans of Swanson's chicken broth as the signal that egg drop soup was forthcoming. The name "Egg Drop" comes from how the soup is made—dropping raw egg into hot soup.
Instructions to make Egg drop tofu soup:
- Boil chicken or vegetable stock, add ginger, cinnamon stick, miso paste in a deep pan. In a tea strainer, place star anise, peppercorns and cloves and add to the pan.
- Add soy sauce and tofu and bean sprouts and simmer for 5 mins on medium heat
- This step is optional: - Add 2 Tbsp of corn flour with little water and add to pan for thickening and mix well for 2 mins.
- In a bowl, crack the eggs and whisk with fork. - Using fork, pour the eggs to the pan like long ribbons. Simmer for 3 mins and turn off the stove
- Transfer the soup in a bowl and garnish with spring onions and enjoy!!!
It doesn't take a genius to figure that out. But actually, the direct translation in Chinese is egg flower soup, because the egg creates large and small swirls in the soup in a flower-like pattern (scroll down to the recipe video below to see that in. Add some shrimps, squids, surimi (a type of Japanese fish cake) for a seafood egg drop soup. Add some spinach for an egg drop soup with spinach, or add tofu for an egg drop soup with tofu. (Check our Miso soup with tofu here) Chinese hot and sour soup is one good example of how the basic egg drop soup is transferred to an elaborate full-blown meal. In a large saucepan, bring broth to a boil over medium heat.
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