Home
Basics tools
methods
stocks
types of soups
Ingredients miso soups
pork soups
potato soups
pumpkin soups
seafood soups
tofu soups
chinese vegetables
noodle soups
Popular congee
egg drop soups
hot and sour soups
wontons
chinese desserts
Articles gluten free soups
healthy soups
herbal soups
soups for colds
weight loss soups
vegetarian soups
Community what's new
have your say
soup kitchen

[?] Subscribe To This Site

XML RSS
Add to Google
Add to My Yahoo!
Add to My MSN
Subscribe with Bloglines



Get updates via email
Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Singapore License.
If you use the recipes, you can copy and paste for your blogging and journaling purposes. However include the url links of the recipes you copied. Any other content should not be copied wholesale.

chinese soups home -- Egg drop soups -- Egg drop soup recipe with tomato and seaweed

Egg drop soup recipe with tomato and seaweed

This egg drop soup recipe produces a simple and humble home-cooked soup.

Humble and simple, but full of nutrition.

Dried seaweed is a popular ingredient in chinese soups. It contains iodine and potassium. It re-hydrates and expand, so a little goes a long way. It may not look like much but is quite tasty and nutritious.

It is different from the Japanese wakame, nori and konbu. It is called zi cai in mandarin which translates literally as purple vegetable.

seaweed soup

Ingredients
1 tomato
1/2 sheet dried seaweed
1 egg
1 tbsp chopped spring onion
350ml soup stock
Salt and pepper
Sesame seed oil

Directions

  1. Remove tomato skin by scoring the skin and blanching in hot water
  2. Let it cool a little before cutting into thin slices
  3. Tear the seaweed into smaller pieces
  4. Beat the egg
  5. Bring the soup stock to a boil, add the tomato and seaweed. Cook till the tomato is soft
  6. Add the salt and pepper
  7. Do the egg drop and remove soup quickly from heat
  8. Pour into serving bowl
  9. Garnish with chopped spring onion and sesame seed oil

Want to use this recipe on your blog or online journal?
Go ahead but do include the text below. Highlight, copy and paste.




sbi LinkWithin Related Stories Widget for Blogs




Culiverter

Add it to your blog


internally displaced people