Chinese
Ge Da Tang (Northern Flour-Drop Soup)
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Ge Da Tang (Northern Flour-Drop Soup) is Chinese home cooking, eaten at breakfast, 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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Drizzle the water slowly into the flour while stirring with chopsticks, until it forms small, uneven pebble-sized crumbs; set aside.
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Heat the oil in a pot and stir-fry the ginger and chopped tomato until the tomato breaks down into a sauce, about 4 minutes.
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Pour in the chicken broth, add the soy sauce and salt, and bring to a boil.
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Sprinkle in the flour crumbs a little at a time, stirring so they separate rather than clump, and simmer 5 minutes until cooked through.
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Beat the egg and drizzle it into the soup in a thin stream to form ribbons.
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Stir in the chopped bok choy and cook 2 minutes until just wilted, then serve hot.
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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 Ge Da Tang (Northern Flour-Drop Soup), 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. Ge Da Tang (Northern Flour-Drop Soup) carries gluten, eggs, and soy. It is free of the remaining 7 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 | No | |
| 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
- 220 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 35 g
- Fat
- 6 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 680 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Ge Da Tang (Northern Flour-Drop Soup) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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