Chinese
Zi Cai Dan Hua Tang (Seaweed and Egg-Drop Soup)
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Tear the nori sheets into small pieces.
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Bring the chicken broth to a boil with the dried shrimp and simmer 2 minutes to let them flavor the broth.
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Add the nori and salt and return to a simmer.
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Beat the egg and drizzle it into the soup in a thin stream, stirring gently to form ribbons.
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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.
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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. 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.
| 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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