Egg drop soup recipe using chicken

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.

Ingredients
3 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

1. Tear the dried seaweed into smaller pieces
2. Mince the chicken breast by hand or with a food processor
3. Beat the eggs
4. Bring the soup to a boil and add the seaweed, stir to break up any clumps
5. Add a little hot soup to the ground chicken to prevent clumping and then add the chicken to the soup
6. Add the salt and cook the soup for about 2 minutes or till chicken is just done
7. Do the egg drop and remove the soup from heat immediately after that
8. Pour into serving bowl
9. Garnish with chopped spring onion, pepper and sesame seed oil

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