Recipe - Hot And Sour Soup (Shulman)

6 Dried Chinese mushrooms OR
1ounce
8 cup Water
4 Vegetable bouillon cubes
6 Green onions; cut or sliced up , whites
and greens, separated
1 pound Tofu; slivered
2 tablespoon Dry sherry OR Chinese rice
wine
One fourth cup Cider vinegar OR Chinese
rice wine vinegar; or more
to taste
2 tablespoon Tamari; or more to taste
2 tablespoon Cornstarch OR arrowroot
One fourth cup Cold water
2 Eggs; beaten (opt)
One fourth cup Carrot; cut into 2inch
matchsticks
One fourth cup Bok choy or celery; cut into
2inch matchsticks
One fourth teaspoon Freshly ground black pepper
OR cayenne; or more to
taste OR chili pepper, to
taste

Before you begin cutting the vegetables, place the mushrooms in a small
bowl. Bring 2 cups of the water to a boil and pour over mushrooms. Cover
and let stand 15 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare the other vegetables.

Place the remaining 6 cups water and the bouillon cubes in a large
saucepan. Drain the mushrooms in a strainer over a bowl and add their
liquid to the souppot. Bring to a simmer. Cut the mushrooms in slivers and
add them to the stock, along with white part of the green onions. Simmer 5
minutes and add the tofu. Simmer 5 minutes and stir in the sherry, vinegar,
and tamari. Dissolve the cornstarch or arrowroot in the One fourth cup cold water.
Stir into the soup and bring to a gentle boil.

Drizzle the beaten eggs into the boiling soup, stirring with a fork or
chopstick so that the egg forms shreds. When the soup becomes clear and
slightly thickened, remove frorn the heat. Stir in the pepper (be generous)
and adjust vinegar and tamari.

Distribute the carrots, bok choy or celery, and the green onion tops bowls
and ladle in the soup. Serve at once, passing additional pepper and vinegar
so people can adjust hot and sour to taste.

REF *Recipe from FAST VEGETARIAN FEASTS (Revised) by Martha Rose Shulman,
1986, Doubleday. *Reprinted in DIET FOR ALL SEASONS, by Elson M. Haas (MD)
(Paperback ISBN 0890877327 Celestial Arts 1995)

1998 Hanneman/Buster

Recipe by: A DIET FOR ALL SEASONS (1995) Haas & Manzolini

Posted to EATLF Digest by KitPATh phannema@wizard.ucr.edu on Apr 14,
1998