This egg drop soup recipe uses dried seaweed (zi cai) and lean chicken breast.
A simple home-cooked recipe. My mother used to make this soup to go with dinner.
It is also a good leftover chicken recipe. Just shred the chicken.
Ingredients3 sheets dried seaweed
100g chicken breast
2 eggs
1 litre soup stock
2 tsp salt
Dash of pepper
Dash of sesame seed oil
1 tbsp chopped spring onion
Directions
- Tear the dried seaweed into smaller pieces
- Mince the chicken breast by hand or with a food processor
- Beat the eggs
- Bring the soup to a boil and add the seaweed, stir to break up any clumps
- Add a little hot soup to the ground chicken to prevent clumping and then add the chicken to the soup
- Add the salt and cook the soup for about 2 minutes or till chicken is just done
- Do the egg drop and remove the soup from heat immediately after that
- Pour into serving bowl
- Garnish with chopped spring onion, pepper and sesame seed oil
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