Lightened-up soups:

It was a winter night and I was feeling too cold so want to eat something which reduces the coldness like a bowl of warm soup.. One of my favorite soup is hot and sour soup, and I was amazed to discover that it's really quite easy and cheap to make. Let me share a secret of tasty hot and sour soup recipe with you, Trust me its yummy. The other wonderful and surprising thing about this soup is how simple and quick it is to make.

To make hot and sour soup the ingredient required are;

v  Whole chicken legs (3 sliced in 3 pieces each) or 500 grams

v  Frozen vegetables 300 grams – Any type you like, I use the mix of corn, peas, carrots.

v  White cabbage 1/2 cup threadbare

v  2 eggs

v  Chicken stock cube 1

v  White vinegar 1/2 cup or you can use lemon juice too

v  Salt 1 tbsp

v  Black pepper 2 tsp

v  Soya sauce 4 tbsp & chili sauce 4 tbsp








METHOD:

 Boil chicken legs in 1 liter water with 1/2 tbsp salt and 1 tsp black pepper. I have used chicken legs in soup because they always taste better than the chicken breast soup, if you want to make it in large quantity, you can use whole chicken too.   Take the chicken legs out and shred it in small pieces.  Add more water to the left behind stock (Around 1 more liter) and boil it. Add chicken stock in it and taste the salt, some chicken stocks is too salty so you might not need to add more salt to it. Add frozen vegetables and cabbage and boil for a minute or two. Add chicken and all the remaining spices and sauces. Taste it, if you want it spicier add some more black pepper or chili sauce and if you like more soya sauce or vinegar adds it now or it can be added later according to taste. Mix corn flour in cold water till it dissolves, slowly add it to the boiling soup then beat the eggs and add it in the thick soup, leave it for 2 seconds and then stir. Cook it for 2 minutes; it will make the yummy egg chunks. Some people don’t like the egg yolk or its smell; you can only use the egg whites too but take 3 eggs if you are only using egg white.  Your hot and sour soup is ready.


This yummy soup can be serving as Starter, side dish. Although it’s a complete meal itself. It has vegetables, eggs, chicken and much more which is good for your health. You can add more sizzling if you want much spicier. I take this soup trice or twice in a week cause I love it.  People who are on diet but want to stay healthy could use it. Hope you like this recipe. Please try this in this chilled season and have warm effect.

Thank you for reading. :)