Chicken Manchow Soup Recipe with step by step pictures. Manchow soup is a popular soup in Indian Chinese cuisine because of its ease of preparation and hot spicy flavour. Delicious chicken soup with fried noodles on top taste amazing. In this blog post, learn how to make delicious manchow soup with step by step pictures and video.
Chicken Manchow Soup
This soup was in my mind ever since I had it one of the restaurant which we went recently. That was the first time I heard and tasted this yummy goodness. It was spicy at the same time it has lots of flavours in it. The whole soup was finished with a crispy noodle topping which really made it.
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I wanted to recreate this soup and post it here. So I made this one night and had it with grilled chicken sandwich and baked chicken nuggets. They were delicious.
About Manchow Soup
Manchow soup is a popular soup in Indian Chinese cuisine because of its ease of preparation and hot spicy flavour. Its available in a variety of restaurants and street food carts. Although the soup is named after Manchuria, it bears no resemblance to the cuisine of the region. Manchow soup originated in Meghalaya.
Its a dark brown soup made with a variety of vegetables, scallions, and chicken, thickened with broth and corn flour, and seasoned with soy sauce, salt, garlic, chilli peppers, and, most notably, ginger. It could be vegetarian or non-vegetarian. It comes with crispy fried noodles and is topped with chopped spring onions.
One of the most popular chicken soups in Chinese cuisine is Chicken Manchow soup. Stir-fried vegetables, broth, sauces, shredded chicken, and eggs are used to make this dish.
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Manchow Soup Ingredients
Ginger & Garlic : Fresh ginger has a slightly peppery and sweet flavour, as well as a pungent and spicy aroma. Fresh ginger, like garlic, softens with cooking. It makes salad dressings, baked goods, soups, curries, meats, and desserts taste so good. Garlic has a distinct, pungent flavour making it ideal for seasoning dishes.
Spring Onion - one of the main ingredient in Indo-Chinese recipes. I start sauteing the white part of spring onions for sauteing while the greens are used as garnishing.
Chicken - Cook chicken with bones to make stock. You can remove the cooked chicken to add it in the soup.
Egg - like all Indo-Chinese soups, egg is added in the end which creates the iconic ribbon like texture.
Vegetables - I used shredded cabbage, carrot, celery and capsicum. You can use mushrooms, baby corn or tofu as well.
Sauces - chilli garlic paste, soy sauce, vinegar is used to flavour the soup.
Cornstarch - mainly for thickening soup.
How to Make Chicken Manchow Soup (Stepwise Pictures)
1)Prepare the vegetables. I shredded cabbage, carrot, celery and capsicum.
2)This is homemade chicken stock. Instead of chicken stock you can use veg stock too.
3)Heat oil in a pan. add ginger, garlic, spring onions
4)add in the prepared vegetables. Saute the ingredients for couple of minutes until fragrant.
5)add in soy sauce
6)Now add in vinegar. Instead of vinegar you can use lemon juice as well.
7)Now I used red chilli and garlic paste. You can use either sambal oleok. Any red chilli sauce or green chilli sauce can be used.
8)Add in salt and sugar to balance the taste of the soup.
9)Add in black pepper powder. For restaurant style taste, add in some MSG.
10)Now pour in stock and mix well. Taste and adjust salt and seasoning of choice.
11)Add in cooked chicken. if you want this to be vegetarian, use mushroom or tofu instead. Mix this and bring the soup to a full boil.
12)Add in cornstarch slurry. This is cornstarch mixed with some cold water.
13)Mix well.
14)Add in one beaten egg and mix it gently to form egg ribbons.
15)Now the soup is ready.
16)Pour the soup into bowls.
17)Top with fried noodles.
18)Serve
Expert Tips
- Instead of using raw chicken, you can use leftover cooked shredded chicken and store bought chicken stock or chicken boullion cubes.
- Any vegetables can be used, make sure to chop it finely.
- If you are making vegetarian soup, skip the chicken stock and use veg stock instead.
- Tofu can be used in the soup.
FAQ
Who invented Manchow soup?
No one knows the full origin story, and the manchow soup remains a delicious mystery. For all we know, it could have been made by someone who accidentally fried noodles while preparing a steaming bowl of it and decided to drink the mixture of spiced vegetables in water as soup rather than discarding it.
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Chicken Manchow Soup Recipe
Equipment
- Cooking pot
Ingredients
For Cooking Chicken & Making Stock
- ½ kg Chicken with bone in
- 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 litre Water
For Soup Base
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 tbsp Ginger peeled & minced
- 1 tbsp Garlic peeled & minced
- 2 no Spring onion white part chopped finely
- 1 medium Carrot shredded
- 1 cup Cabbage shredded
- 1 stick Celery shredded
- ½ no Green Bell Pepper shredded
- 1 tbsp Soy Sauce
- 2 tbsp Red Chilli Garlic Paste
- 2 tsp Vinegar
- 1 tsp Salt Sugar, Pepper to taste
- 1 no Egg
For Cornstarch Slurry
- 2 tbsp Corn Starch
- 4 tbsp Water
For Garnishing
- 1 cup Egg Noodles boiled
- 2 no Spring Onions green part chopped finely
Instructions
- First make the chicken stock. Take a pressure cooker add chicken along with some turmeric powder and salt. Add lots of water and pressure cook it for 3 whistle. Now let the pressure go all by itself. Open the pressure cooker and filter the stock. Now remove the flesh from the chicken and set aside.
- Now heat oil in a deep pot. Add in ginger, garlic, spring onion white and saute for couple of mins. Add in the shredded veggies and cook for 5-10 mins till the raw smell goes away. Now add in red chilli paste, soy sauce, vinegar, salt, sugar, pepper and mix well. Pour the chicken stock in this and mix well. Bring this to a boil. Now add in the cooked chicken and mix well.
- Now mix cornstarch with some cold water and pour that into the soup. Now the soup must have thickened. Now beat eggs and pour it over the soup while mixing constantly. This will make the egg form into threads. Soup is ready.
- for making fried noodles. Add boiled noodles into hot oil and fry till crispy. You can crush them coarsely before topping the soup.
- Ladle the soup into some bowls. Sprinkle some fried noodles over it with some spring onion greens. Serve hot.
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Notes
- Instead of using raw chicken, you can use leftover cooked shredded chicken and store bought chicken stock or chicken boullion cubes.
- Any vegetables can be used, make sure to chop it finely.
- If you are making vegetarian soup, skip the chicken stock and use veg stock instead.
- Tofu can be used in the soup.
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Balakrishna Saraswathy
Just a perfect bowl of soup for the cozy evenings:)
Hamaree Rasoi
I too order it often when we go out for dinner..
Hamaree Rasoi
I too order it often when we go out for dinner..
SirisFood
Good preparation
divya
tht's looks so tempting ...yum
Rajeshwari R
hai... i like chiken manchow soup...
good preparation thank u
Premalatha Aravindhan
Yummy soup,luks gr8!
Anonymous
Looks so warm and comforting for the cold autumn nights here in the uk
Rita Bose
A perfect soup for a perfect evening. I made it yesterday on my parents' anniversary- it turned out to be a great success! Yum!
Ethereal Freak
Thank you so much for this amazing recipe. The instruction was very simple!
marich l
Hi,soup looks yummy.Please tell me how much did u add soya sauce and red chilli paste
marich l
@Aarthi
thank you.I made it.it came out very well.
Abba sal
Yah it's come on out really nice
Anonymous
Hi aarthi,
hw did u make d fried noodles? Did u boil n fry them or did u fry dem directly?
Aarthi
@Anonymousi boiled them and fried
Time for Craft
What is the difference between hot & sour soup and manchow soup?
fatma
how many servings can you get from this recipie, pl?
Aarthi
u get around 4 to 6 servings