Egg drop tofu soup. The beauty of egg drop soup lies in the fact that it contains only three core ingredients, and they're all kitchen staples. First up is the broth, chicken being the most common. I fondly remember the sound of the can opener working on cans of Swanson's chicken broth as the signal that egg drop soup was forthcoming.
If a little bit sour taste is wanted, tomatoes are commonly used.
I have post recipe introducing tomato rib soup.
The recipe today calls for fresh tofu, egg and tomatoes.
You can have Egg drop tofu soup using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Egg drop tofu soup
- You need 4 of eggs.
- Prepare 1 cup of tofu ,cubed.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of mushrooms, sliced.
- It's 1/4 cup of bean sprouts (optional).
- It's 6 cups of vegetable or chicken stock.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of miso.
- It's 1 tbsp of soy sauce.
- You need 8 of peppercorns.
- You need 4-6 of cloves.
- It's 2 of star anise.
- It's 1 of cinnamon stick.
- You need 1 1/2 inch of ginger sliced.
- It's of salt.
- You need of chopped spring onions to garnish.
Those ingredients not only create a slightly sweet or sour mild taste but also a red, white and yellow color. Amaze your friends and family with this vegan egg drop soup with a real authentic taste and texture, but with no eggs of course! There are a few vegan egg drop soup recipes floating around out there, but they all used tofu for the egg. Well, that is probably yummy too, but that is tofu soup, not egg drop soup!
Egg drop tofu soup step by step
- Boil chicken or vegetable stock, add ginger, cinnamon stick, miso paste in a deep pan. In a tea strainer, place star anise, peppercorns and cloves and add to the pan..
- Add soy sauce and tofu and bean sprouts and simmer for 5 mins on medium heat.
- This step is optional: Add 2 Tbsp of corn flour with little water and add to pan for thickening and mix well for 2 mins..
- In a bowl, crack the eggs and whisk with fork. Using fork, pour the eggs to the pan like long ribbons. Simmer for 3 mins and turn off the stove.
- Transfer the soup in a bowl and garnish with spring onions and enjoy!!!.
This Tomato Tofu Egg Drop Soup is an old-fashioned, simple soup that we grew up with in Hong Kong. All you need is to add only three to four ingredients into a pot of stock (or water), then bring to a boil. The highlight is the ribbon-like silky smooth eggs. Anywho, one of the soups that kept me satiated was egg drop soup. Vegan versions of the soup work out well with chopped up tofu, but the texture is not entirely there.
