An egg drop soup recipe with chicken and seaweed

This egg drop soup recipe uses dried seaweed (紫菜 zi cai) and ground lean chicken.

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 by hand or in a food processor.

Ingredients
1 sheet dried seaweed
100g ground chicken
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. Beat the eggs
3. Bring the soup stock to a boil and add the seaweed, stir to break up any clumps
4. Add a little hot soup to the ground chicken to prevent clumping and then add the chicken to the soup. If you are using cooked chicken, skip the first part
5. Add the salt and cook the soup for about 2 minutes or till chicken is just done
6. Do the egg drop and remove the soup from heat immediately after that
7. Pour into serving bowl
8. Garnish with chopped spring onion, pepper and sesame seed oil

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