Hot & Sour Chicken Soup Recipe with step by step pictures. Soup made with chicken, pepper, vegetables and eggs. The soup has a spicy and sour note to it, hence the name.
Hot & Sour Chicken Soup
Spicy Hot & Sour is the only soup which I order all time...We will go to a near by restaurant often and I will order this soup along with crispy fish fingers..Hmmm...This taste so awesome..I love adding egg and chicken in this soup..I love the taste of it..But if you wish you could make it entirely vegetarian..Skip the chicken and egg part in this recipe and add lots of vegetables.
I made this a while before and served it with some crispy chicken croquettes(remember the recipe). This was our dinner that day. It rained heavily that day and soup with fried chicken croquettes made us so comforting and cozy. So with no more delay..I am giving you the step by step recipe with pictures.
Ingredients for chicken hot and sour soup
- Chicken-½ kg
- Carrot – ½ cup shredded
- Cabbage – ½ cup shredded
- Egg-1
- Tomato Ketchup – 1 tblspn or to taste
- Soy Sauce – 1 tblspn or to taste
- Vinegar – 1 tsp or to taste
- Red Chilli Paste – 1 tsp or to taste
- Ginger Garlic Paste-1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Sugar-1 tsp
- Pepper to taste
- Cornflour-1 tblspn mixed with some cold water
- Butter -1 tblspn
- Cilantro – as needed
How to Make Chicken Hot and Sour Soup
- Take some water in a sauce pan and bring that to boil..Add in the chicken and cook until it is cooked all the way through..Remove that and allow it to cool down..Chop it finely and set aside.
- Now drain the stock through a fine sieve and take it in a bowl..Add red chilli paste, soy sauce, vinegar, tomato ketchup in this stock and mix well.Set this aside for a moment.
- Now melt some butter in a sauce pan..Add in ginger garlic paste and fry for 1 min.
- Add in carrot and cabbage and mix well..Cook this for 5 mins.
- Pour the stock over the veggies and mix well.
- Season with salt and sugar and mix well..
- Now add in the chicken pieces and mix well..Simmer this for 10 mins..
- Add in the cornflour slurry slowly in this and keep mixing until the soup thickens..
- Drizzle in one beaten egg and mix well..Off the flame immediately..
- Garnish with fresh cilantro and mix well.
- Serve hot..
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Hot and Sour Chicken Soup Recipe | Chicken Hot and Sour Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 500 grams Chicken
- ½ cup Carrot shredded
- ½ cup Cabbage shredded
- 1 Egg
- 1 tbsp Tomato Ketchup
- 1 tbsp Soy Sauce
- 1 tsp Vinegar
- 1 tsp Red Chilli Paste
- 1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Black Pepper
- 1 tbsp Corn flour mixed with some cold water
- 1 tbsp Butter
- Cilantro as needed
Instructions
- Take some water in a sauce pan and bring that to boil..Add in the chicken and cook until it is cooked all the way through..Remove that and allow it to cool down..Chop it finely and set aside.
- Now drain the stock through a fine sieve and take it in a bowl..Add red chilli paste, soy sauce, vinegar, tomato ketchup in this stock and mix well.Set this aside for a moment.
- Now melt some butter in a sauce pan..Add in ginger garlic paste and fry for 1 min.
- Add in carrot and cabbage and mix well..Cook this for 5 mins.
- Pour the stock over the veggies and mix well.
- Season with salt and sugar and mix well..
- Now add in the chicken pieces and mix well..Simmer this for 10 mins..
- Add in the cornflour slurry slowly in this and keep mixing until the soup thickens..
- Drizzle in one beaten egg and mix well..Off the flame immediately..
- Garnish with fresh cilantro and mix well.
- Serve hot..
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Hot and Sour Chicken Soup Recipe Step by Step
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Irene
My favorite soup. You made it look so simple and delicious. Will definitely try this recipe 🙂
Suja
Filling and delicious soup..yummy
Hamaree Rasoi
Lovely looking soup. Excellent preparation .
Deepa
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Carolina
A fantastic soup for cold days.
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Ann from Sumptuous Spoonfuls
Oh I love hot and sour soup ... I order it every time I go to a Chinese restaurant, but I've never tried to make it! Thank you for the step by step instructions to make it 🙂
Kristy Lynn
aarthi! this looks delish! I am planning something similar for tonight - weird huh?
thanks for stopping by 🙂 Hope to see more of you!
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Kristy
soujanya
Chicken soup looks mouthwatery!!!
perfect!!!!
Catherine
Dear Aarthi, I followed along every step of the way in your directions. I would just love this soup. It something I would just adore. Blessings, Catherine xo
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WOW. Comfort food. i love it. bookmarked
Sumee
other than ohhh and ahhhs nothing is coming out of me.!!!! YUMMY.!!! and love your pics.
S.Menaga
super,one of my fav soup!!
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Mouthwatering and a warming soup.Luv it.
Chitra
perfect soothing soup for a rainy day
Dzoli
Thank you for this recipe.I sure would like to try next time I make chicken soup:)
Holly
This soup sounds yummy!
Neha
Nice recipe...Very well explained...
Jasna's kitchen creations
I love hot & sour soup. Thanks for sharing!
Manju
Hi Aarthi,
Though this recipe doesn't use chicken broth I hv some at home and now I know how to make use of it...that soup looks very tempting n there's nothing better than a nice bowl of hot soup during this cold weather.
Thanks a lot for visiting my space and I am a regular visitor of your blog and I love and admire the time and patience you put to take the step by step pics 🙂
See you again..
Manju
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sangee vijay
Mmmm...really a hot n sour soup...wonderful recipe !!
Rekha shoban
this is really very different type of chicken soup!!looks yummy!
Poornima Nair
My favorite kind of soup!
ANU
very nice and yummy soup...
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Julie
I love hot and sour soup~ this looks delicious.
Tina
Refreshing and perfect soup..
Ann
This sounds delicious! I always wondered what was in hot and sour soup! Now I will be happy to order it when we're out at an appropriate restaurant - AND I can make it!
Nags
your step by step pics are killing me! 🙂
Priya
Wat a droolworthy and tempting soup, fabulous soup for chilled weather..
hemalata
perfect soup,sounds so delicious.
ente pachakasala
delicious chicken soup thanks for ur comments in my blog
Balakrishna Saraswathy
that bowl of hot and sour chicken soup is wht I crave for the cozy evenings in CBE Aarti..send me a bowl:D
Anonymous
What's chilli paste ? And it looks awesome can't wait to try it !
Aarthi
@AnonymousIt is just ground dry chilli with some water or vinegar. Will share that recipe soon.
Anonymous
Its poach ,not pouch..
Aarthi
@Anonymousthank you...edited
Anonymous
Can u please tell me what is red chilli paste
Aarthi
@AnonymousIt is dry red chillies which is soaked in hot water and ground to a paste
Anu S
Nice. Can u pls update veg. Hot n sour soup
Rajesh Kumar
Brilliant photographs! wow....lovely n delicious .it tastes yummy too!
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Purnima Selvamurugan
I tried this couple of week back, it came perfect.. all your recipes are good, your pictorial in all recipes is the highligh. Pictures makes me Clear.. Thanks a lot.
Anonymous
Hi aarthi, i made this soup in a big pot with 1.5 kg chicken. Got a bit generous with the sauces snd i thought i addded too much vinegar. But my husband totally loved it. Thank you so much for all your recipes. I only recently stumbled into your website and i should admit that i m addicted to it. Every day i visit it and for almost every dish that i make now, i refer your recipe. your simplified steps and pictures inspire me to cook more. God bless you!
Jay
Selena Gomez
wow yummy recipe ...too good to see...
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shiney rosario
Hi Aarthi....can you plz post the recipe for red chilli paste wch u have used in this soup...TIA
Aarthi
@shiney rosariohere is the link
https://www.yummytummyaarthi.com/2015/06/homemade-chilli-garlic-paste-recipe-how.html
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Hi, tried it for the second time today. It has become family favourite. Thank u
Tanisha Singh
This blog is looking repository of food and found here every kind of food. it looks beautiful and superb in taste.share more recipe with better information resturent menu order
Ain Riz
Awesome, love your blog it is so easy and helpful. Thank you for sharing such good recipes and making cooking fun.
Unknown
Tried this. Soup was just awesome. Thank u.
Sandhya
Aarthi, how much stock do you add?