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Zi Cai Dan Hua Tang (Seaweed and Egg-Drop Soup)

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Zi Cai Dan Hua Tang (Seaweed and Egg-Drop 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.

10 min Easy Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves
3

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Tear the nori sheets into small pieces.

  2. Bring the chicken broth to a boil with the dried shrimp and simmer 2 minutes to let them flavor the broth.

  3. Add the nori and salt and return to a simmer.

  4. Beat the egg and drizzle it into the soup in a thin stream, stirring gently to form ribbons.

  5. Ladle into bowls, drizzle with sesame oil, and scatter with scallions; this is the three-minute soup that finishes an ordinary dinner.

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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 Zi Cai Dan Hua Tang (Seaweed and Egg-Drop Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

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. Zi Cai Dan Hua Tang (Seaweed and Egg-Drop Soup) carries shellfish, eggs, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Zi Cai Dan Hua Tang (Seaweed and Egg-Drop Soup)
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish Yes Dong Gua Pai Gu Tang (Winter Melon and Pork Rib Soup)
Eggs Yes Dong Gua Pai Gu Tang (Winter Melon and Pork Rib Soup)
Soy No
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
40 kcal
Protein
3 g
Carbs
1 g
Fat
3 g
Fiber
0 g
Sugar
0 g
Sodium
660 mg
Saturated fat
1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Zi Cai Dan Hua Tang (Seaweed and Egg-Drop Soup) takes about 10 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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