Hot and sour soup Recipe step by step

Pakistani kitchens boast a wide range of Chinese soup which are relished all over the country
by old and young alike . Soups which are delicacy especially during the chilly month of winter , when people like to warm themselves up with a nice , steamy bowl of soup .
Chinese soups like the Hot and sour soup  , Mushroom soup , Fish vegetable and Chicken corn soup & Noodle soup are widely popular among Pakistani denizens .

Let's get started with Hot and sour soup :

Hot and sour soup

Ingredients :

1. Chicken :1/2 kg
2. Water : 8 glasses
3. Corn flour : 5 tablespoons
4. Soya sauce : 3 tablespoons
5. Chilli sauce : 2 tablespoons
6. Vinegar : 2 tablespoons
7. Ketchup or tomato paste : 4 tablespoons
8. Eggs : 2
9. Sugar : 1teaspoon
10. Ground black pepper : 1 teaspoon
11. Ground red chili : 1 teaspoon
12. Thin chopped cabbage : 2 tablespoons
13. Thin chopped carrots : 3 tablespoons
14. Onion : 1 medium
15. Black peppercorns : 6 to 8
16. Boiled prawns : 6 to 8 cut
17. Thin chopped capsicums : 2 tablespoons

Method to cook :

1. Add  chicken , whole onion , 6 to 8 black peppercorns into 8 glass water and boil . When stock(yakhni) is reduced to 6 glasses , turn the stove ( gas or chulha ) off .
2. Now take chicken out of stock ( yakhni) and make  its fragments ( tukrey) and dispose off bones. 
3. Sift the stock ( yakhni )and place on the stove ( gas ) . Add salt , Chinese salt , ground black pepper and red chili . When it gets boiled , mix corn flour in half mug water and add into the stock ( yakhni ) and cook for 5 minutes .
4. When stock (yakhni) becomes thick , add soya sauce , chili sauce , vinegar & tomato paste or ketchup and also chicken .
5. Now add the beaten eggs ; remember that do not move the ladle (chamach)  immediately after adding the eggs . Doing this breaks the eggs into very thin pieces so move the ladle after two minutes so that you get proper pieces of eggs .
6. Lastly add carrots , capsicums , cabbage , green onions and prawns if you like and place on dun for 5 to 8 minutes . And so your hot and sour soup is ready .

Steps to make hot and sour soup with pictures : 
                                            
                                                  

                                                        

                         

                                                   

                                        

I hope these pictures might  help you to recognize the ingredients . :)

                                        

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