Chinese
Egg Drop Soup with Tofu
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Egg Drop Soup with Tofu is Chinese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Bring the broth to a simmer with the ginger, soy sauce, and white pepper.
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Stir the cornstarch with 3 tbsp cold water and whisk it in until the soup thickens slightly, about 2 minutes.
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Add the diced tofu and peas and warm through, about 2 minutes.
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Beat the eggs, then slowly drizzle them into the gently swirling soup so they form silky ribbons.
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Turn off the heat and stir in the sesame oil.
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Ladle into bowls and top with scallions.
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Egg Drop Soup with Tofu, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Egg Drop Soup with Tofu carries gluten, eggs, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Soy | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 140 kcal
- Protein
- 12 g
- Carbs
- 8 g
- Fat
- 7 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 620 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Egg Drop Soup with Tofu takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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