Suan La Tang - 酸辣汤 - hot and sour soup

Suan La Tang - 酸辣汤
hot and sour soup

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Ingredients:
5 dried shiitake mushrooms
5 g dried wood ear
20 lily buds/sedep malam/tiger lily buds

90 gr pork, lean
1/2 tsp cornstarch
1 tbsp water
1/2 tsp oil

50 gr carrots
50 gr bamboo shoots
100 g soft tofu/tahu
1 egg

1000 ml chicken stock (unsalted)
4 tbsp cornflour + 4 tbsp water

3 tbsp black rice vinegar
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp sesame oil
coriander/spring onion, chopped

Preparation:
First soak the shiitake, the wood ear and then cut it into strips. Also soak the sedep, but then pull it apart lengthwise.
Cut the meat into strips. Mix the meat with the cornflour with the water and then rub it with the oil and set aside.
Cut the carrot, the bamboo shoots and the tofu julienne. Beat the egg
Heat the stock in a pan and bring to a boil. Then add the meat and mix well. Then add the shiitake, the woodear, the sedep, the carrot and the bamboo shoots and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Then let it simmer on low heat and mix in the dissolved cornstarch while stirring. When the soup becomes thicker than add the tahu and the egg while slowly stirring.
When the soup comes to the boil again, turn off the heat and mix in the rice vinegar, soy sauce, pepper and sesame oil. Sprinkle the the coriander/spring onion pn top and serve.