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Cooking: Hot and Sour Soup
I needed a way to use up the other half of the chicken thighs I had left over from the previous week's Thai chicken curry. Tufty, I thought. What other kind of chicken soup can I make in a crockpot? Mexican? No, that'd just be chili. Then it hit me, the perfect soup when you have a cold or sore throat: hot'n'sour soup!
2 cups chicken stock
1 pound carrots, diced
Half a large head of bok choy, chopped into strips
Half a bag of chopped onions (about one onion's worth)
3 Tbsp black vinegar (or traditionally, rice vinegar)
2 Tbsp soy sauce
6-7 chicken thighs, skinless
1/4 tsp crushed red peppers
I set the crockpot to 6 hours slow-cook, then with 2 hours left, I added:
1 carton of firm tofu, chopped into small strips
2 tsp Hunan chili paste (any kind of chili paste should do)
1 scoop of ground flax seed
This last I used as a substitute for the corn starch that I saw in several hot'n'sour soup recipes. It adds a bit of healthy fat and thickens the soup. I think. It was an experiment!
I also scooped the thigh bones out with a pair of tongs, then stirred the soup well and let it finish cooking.
Above you'll see a bowl of the result. It tastes pretty respectable, definitely hot but not (to my taste buds) overpoweringly so. The chicken is shredded to threads; if you want your chicken to be firm, put it in later and then manually tear it to pieces.
2 cups chicken stock
1 pound carrots, diced
Half a large head of bok choy, chopped into strips
Half a bag of chopped onions (about one onion's worth)
3 Tbsp black vinegar (or traditionally, rice vinegar)
2 Tbsp soy sauce
6-7 chicken thighs, skinless
1/4 tsp crushed red peppers
I set the crockpot to 6 hours slow-cook, then with 2 hours left, I added:
1 carton of firm tofu, chopped into small strips
2 tsp Hunan chili paste (any kind of chili paste should do)
1 scoop of ground flax seed
This last I used as a substitute for the corn starch that I saw in several hot'n'sour soup recipes. It adds a bit of healthy fat and thickens the soup. I think. It was an experiment!
I also scooped the thigh bones out with a pair of tongs, then stirred the soup well and let it finish cooking.
Above you'll see a bowl of the result. It tastes pretty respectable, definitely hot but not (to my taste buds) overpoweringly so. The chicken is shredded to threads; if you want your chicken to be firm, put it in later and then manually tear it to pieces.
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No white pepper, though? I'd been under the impression that was one of the key ingredients.
Off-topic amewsement: Google seems to feel that ads for mass spectrometers and human stem cells went best with this post. Words fail me.
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