Hot Spicy Soup Food

CHINESE SPICY HOT AND SOUR SOUP

Steps:

• Soak the dried mushrooms and tiger lily buds in warm water for 20 minutes. After trimming off any tough stems, slice the mushrooms. With the fingers, shred the tiger lily stems.
• Place the mushrooms, tiger lily buds, stock, bamboo shoots, and shredded pork into a saucepan. Bring to a boil, and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Stir in soy sauce, sugar, salt, white pepper, and vinegar. Combine cornstarch with 3 tablespoons water. Add a little of the hot soup to the cornstarch, and then return all to the pan. Heat to boiling, stirring. Add the bean curd, and cook 1 to 2 minutes.
• Just before serving, turn off the heat. Stir the egg in gradually. Mix in sesame oil. Sprinkle each serving with scallions.

HOT AND SOUR SOUP

Steps:

• Put the wood ears in a small bowl and cover with boiling water. Let stand for 30 minutes to reconstitute. Drain and rinse the wood ears; discard any hard clusters in the centers.
• Heat the oil in a wok or large pot over medium-high flame. Add the ginger, chili paste, wood ears, bamboo shoots, and pork; cook and stir for 1 minute to infuse the flavor. Combine the soy sauce, vinegar, salt, pepper, and sugar in a small bowl, pour it into the wok and toss everything together - it should smell really fragrant. Pour in the Chinese Chicken Stock, bring the soup to a boil, and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the tofu and cook for 3 minutes.
• Dissolve the cornstarch in the water and stir until smooth. Mix the slurry into the soup and continue to simmer until the soup thickens. Remove the soup from the heat and stir in 1 direction to get a current going, then stop stirring. Slowly pour in the beaten eggs in a steady stream and watch it spin around and feather in the broth (it should be cooked almost immediately.) Garnish the hot and sour soup with chopped green onions and cilantro before serving.
• Put the chicken in a large stockpot and place over medium heat. Toss in the green onions, garlic, ginger, onion, and peppercorns. Pour about 3 quarts of cold water into the pot to cover the chicken by 1-inch. Simmer gently for 1 hour, uncovered, skimming off the foam on the surface periodically.
• Carefully remove the chicken from the pot and pass the stock through a strainer lined with cheesecloth to remove the solids and excess fat. Cool the chicken stock to room temperature before storing in the refrigerator, or chill it down over ice first.
• Yield: About 2 quarts

GINA'S HOT AND SPICY TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• In a large heavy bottomed pot, heat the oil on medium-high heat. Saute the onions. Add bell pepper, jalapenos, salt and pepper. Cook until the onions become translucent. Add the cumin and stir until fragrant. Add the chicken broth, tomatoes, corn, and 1/4 cup of the cilantro. Add the diced chicken and cook through for about 10 minutes. Season with salt, to taste.
• Ladle soup into bowls and divide the crushed tortilla chips between the bowls. Top with sour cream, Monterey jack cheese, cilantro, sliced avocado, and lime wedges.

HOW TO MAKE HOT POT BROTH

Steps:

• In a large pot with water, add chicken, pig bones, white peppercorn, long green onion and ginger. Bring to a boiling and skim any floats on the surface. Slow down the fire and continue simmer for 1 hour.
• In your serving pot, add tomatoes, 2-3 shiitake mushrooms, red dates, scallion sections, celery and 3 sections of corns. Season with 2 teaspoons of salt and load with 3 L light stock.
• Soak 50g dried chili pepper in hot boiling water for 30 minutes, covered please. Then transfer out and finely mashed.
• Melt a beef tallow in a pot, fry ginger, scallion and cloves until aromatic.
• Place in all the seasonings including doubanjiang, chopped red peppers and other seasonings (or a store bough package). Fry over slowest fire for 1-2 minutes until the oil turn red. Pour in light stock prepared previously and light soy sauce. Simmer for 15 minutes over slowest fire.

SPICY HOT CHICKEN SOUP

Steps:

• Cut the chicken meat into 1/4" cubes. In a heavy stock pot, heat the oil over medium-high heat.
• When the oil is hot, add the chicken, cooking about 5 minutes stirring frequently. If it sticks or part burns, it just gives the soup flavor.
• Add the onion and garlic. Cook for about 5 more minutes or until everything is browning.
• Add the cayenne pepper and ginger. Go slow with the cayenne pepper, adding a little at first and adding more to taste.
• Stir for about a minute, then add the chicken stock.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for at least 20 minutes.
• In a separate pot, bring pot of water to a boil and cook noodles for 1 minute less than the package directions recommend. Drain.
• turn off the pot of soup and let stand for 5 minutes.
• Only add the noodles to each bowl at serving time. Don't add ahead of time because the noodles will get too soft. Once the noodles are added to the soup, allow to sit for a few minutes for noodles to absorb the flavor of the soup.
• Extra noodles and soup should be stored separately in fridge.

HOT SPICY SOUP

Steps:

• In saucepan bring chicken stock, water, gingerroot, garlic, hot peppers and sugar to boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes.
• Strain through a fine sieve and return to pot.
• Trim dry ends off lemongrass and peel away any tough outer leaves.
• Cut into 1" lengths and add to pot.
• Add fish, corn, mushrooms and green onions.
• Bring to simmer and simmer for 3 minutes or unt9il fish flakes easily.
• Stir in red pepper, coriander, lime rind and juice.

SPICY VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat a deep pot and dry-fry the chilli flakes for a few seconds until they release their aroma. Then add the olive oil. As soon as it heats up add all the vegetables: potatoes, carrot, swede, celery, and lentils. Also add the garlic granules. Cook until everything is well hot, stirring occassionally so that the vegetables do not stick to the bottom of the pan.
• Add the chicken stock, the milk, the ginger and the salt & pepper. Stir well and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes or until the vegetables are soft. Blend until smooth using a stick blender. Serve hot.