Recipe: Perfect Egg Flower Soup

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Egg Flower Soup. Whitney's Egg Flower Soup. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Chinese Egg Flower Soup somehow always reminds me of Chinese take-out. Maybe it's because egg flower soup is usually on the menu along side the classic egg.

Egg Flower Soup The name "egg flower soup" often confounds Western diners: For one thing, the soup contains no flowers. The name actually came from the beaten egg white's apparent "blossoming" while it's slowly. See more ideas about Cooking recipes, Asian recipes, Recipes. You can have Egg Flower Soup using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Egg Flower Soup

  1. Prepare 6 cup of Chicken stock (I prefer fresh stock but had none. So I used 6 cups water and 3 tsp chicken bouillon).
  2. It's 1 of finely diced carrot.
  3. It's 2 of thin sliced green onions.
  4. It's 2 of to 3 beaten eggs (preference).
  5. You need 1/2 packages of diced tofu (optional).
  6. It's 1 tsp of cornstarch mixed with 2 tsp cold water (to thicken - Optional).
  7. You need 1/4 tbsp of sesame oil (optional).
  8. You need 1/4 tsp of ground ginger or fresh (optional).
  9. You need 1 of soy sauce (optional condiment).
  10. Prepare 1 of hot chili pepper oil (optional condiment).

Find egg flower soup stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. Various egg drop soups are highly popular on Chinese daily dinner table. The Chinese name of this group of soup is 蛋(dàn)花(huā)汤(tāng), literally means egg flower soup.

Egg Flower Soup instructions

  1. Bring stock to a boil..
  2. Add carrot, green onions, and other desired optional items at this time. Let boil for 2-3 minutes..
  3. Pour in eggs and stir to break the egg up. (If you want more string-like eggs, pour the eggs in slowly while stirring in a circle)..
  4. Stir for 1 minute and remove from heat..
  5. Enjoy!.

If you are a straight-egg-soup-only kind of person, you can call your soup finished at this point. You can poach em and scramble em. I think for egg flower chicken might be better thought. Remove ginger and green onion before pouring over eggs. Egg drop soup (Chinese: 蛋花湯; pinyin: Dànhuātāng) is a Chinese soup of wispy beaten eggs in boiled chicken broth.