Chinese
Suan La Tang (Hot and Sour Soup)
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Suan La Tang (Hot and Sour Soup) is Chinese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is 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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Soak the dried wood ear in hot water 20 minutes until softened, then shred it along with the bamboo shoots and tofu into thin strips.
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Bring the chicken broth to a boil and add the tofu, wood ear and bamboo shoots.
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Simmer 5 minutes, then stir in the white pepper, rice vinegar, soy sauce and salt.
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Stir the cornstarch into a few tablespoons of cold water and pour it into the soup, stirring constantly, until it thickens slightly.
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Drizzle with sesame oil and serve; the heat here is white pepper, not chili, which is why it is sour-hot rather than mala.
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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 Suan La Tang (Hot and Sour Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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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. Suan La Tang (Hot and Sour Soup) carries gluten, soy, and sesame. 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 | Dong Gua Pai Gu Tang (Winter Melon and Pork Rib Soup) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Dong Gua Pai Gu Tang (Winter Melon and Pork Rib Soup) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Dong Gua Pai Gu Tang (Winter Melon and Pork Rib Soup) |
| 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
- 120 kcal
- Protein
- 9 g
- Carbs
- 5 g
- Fat
- 7 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 740 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Suan La Tang (Hot and Sour Soup) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. 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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