Hot and Sour Soup

Ingredients

• 1 cup mushrooms, sliced
• 2 cups vegetables (cabbage, carrot, beans, capsicum), thin strips
• 8 garlic cloves, 1 inch ginger, minced
• 3 tbsp cornflour
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 3 tbsp vinegar
• 1 tbsp chilli sauce
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 5 cups stock
• 1 tbsp oil

Method

1. Cut every vegetable into thin matchsticks. This soup is about texture in every spoonful.
2. Garlic and ginger in oil, 20 seconds, then mushrooms till their water evaporates.
3. Vegetables, 2 minutes on high.
4. Stock, soy, chilli sauce and salt. Boil 5 minutes.
5. Cornflour slurry in, stirring, till it thickens.
6. Vinegar and pepper OFF the heat — boiling vinegar loses the sourness that gives the soup its name.