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      Title: Easy Hot & Sour Soup
 Categories: Chinese, Soup
      Yield: 1 Batch

      4 c  Chicken stock or broth
      3 tb Soy sauce
    1/4 c  Cooked chicken or pork;
           -shredded
    1/2 c  Mushrooms; sliced or diced
    1/2 tb Garlic red chili paste
    1/4 ts Ground white pepper
    1/4 c  White vinegar
    1/4 c  Canned bamboo shoots;
           -julienned
      3 oz Tofu; cut into 1/4" dice
      2 tb Corn starch; plus:
      2 tb Water; cold
      1    Egg; beaten
      2    Green onion stalks;
           -including tops; diced
    1/2 ts Toasted sesame oil

  Bring chicken broth to a simmer in a 2 qt saucepan. Add soy sauce,
  shredded meat, mushrooms, and garlic red chili paste. Simmer for 5
  minutes. Add white pepper, white vinegar, bamboo shoots, tofu. Simmer
  for 5 minutes. Combine 2 tb of corn starch with 2 tb of cold water in
  a cup. Stir until mixture is smooth. Add corn starch mixture to soup
  and stir well. Simmer for 5 minutes until soup is thickened. Beat egg
  in a cup until yolk and white are combined. Pour beaten egg slowly,
  in a fine stream into soup. Stir soup several times. Wait 30 seconds.
  Add green onions and sesame oil to soup. Stir well. Remove from heat.

  If you want to add Asian type mushrooms or other ingredients, go for
  it.

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