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Egg Drop Soup (蛋花汤)
Egg Drop Soup (蛋花汤) an amazingly beautiful soup. Video at the bottom.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tbsp. cornstarch
- 3 tbsp. water
- 1/4 tsp. ground white pepper
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tbsp. light soy sauce (optional)
- 1/2 tbsp. minced ginger
- 3 tbsp. chopped scallion (white part and green part separately chopped)
- 1/2 tbsp. sesame oil (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Mix 2 tablespoons of cornstarch with 3 tablespoons of water in a small bowl. This is our water starch.
- 2
Add chicken stock to a pot. Add ginger, scallion whites and light soy sauce. Bring the broth to a boilings. Remove the ginger and scallion whites. Add salt and white pepper.
- 3
Stir the starch water again and pour it into the broth. Simmer to boil again.
- 4
Turn up the fire and then slightly pour the whisked egg in. Stir the soup with chopsticks. Turn off the fire, add some fresh chopped scallion and serve immediately.
- 5
Optionally drizzle some sesame oil.