Yen Can Cook ~ Chinese Yam & Egg Drop Soup
Are you a fan of thick soup? Chinese style thick soup, to be precise, for example hot and sour soup (酸辣汤). Many restaurants or homemade version are normally thickened the soup using cornstarch or potato starch, rendering a thick and starchy broth, which I don’t really fancy of.
Today, I’m going to share an easy thick soup recipe with a “magic ingredient” as thickening agent ~ Chinese Yam 山药/淮山 which appeared in my recent boiled soup recipe. Due to its unique mucilaginous texture when cut or grated, Chinese Yam is great as broth thickener, without worry about the forming of clumpy gooey blobs in your soup.
Those ingredients in my recipe can be substituted with any other vegetables such as corn kernels, baby bok choy (chopped), Shiitake mushrooms (diced), just to name a few.
Ingredients (Serve: 3-4)
1 Chinese Yam (approximately 300-400g), slightly mashed with some chunky pieces
10g wood ear fungus, soaked in water till soften & sliced.
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 carrot, diced
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
1500’L water/ stock
Cooking oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Chopped spring onion, for garnishing.
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Step 1: Heat a saucepan with some cooking oil and saute the wood ear fungus and carrot until slightly soften. Pour in water/stock and bring to boil.
Step 2: Add in mashed Chinese Yam and oyster sauce, stir and
Step 3: Add in the beaten egg slowly, stir the broth while the egg pouring process to form the egg drop.
Step 4: Add salt and pepper to taste.
Step 5: Sprinkle with chopped spring onion and serve.
HAPPY COOKING!
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I am only a fan if it is flavourful but not salty. 🙂
Tekkaus, I can let you know that it’s flavourful yet not too salty as I always stingy on usage of salt, LOL
Oh, you’re using the scary-looking tuber again…haha! ;D I like the look of your egg drop soup….your egg strands are very fine…like sharksfin soup! 😉
Kris, thank you for your compliment 🙂
Oh yes, I love thick soups. Another one that I like is the hot and sour soup. I found the yam at Jaya Grocer but I did not buy it.
PH, you should try this recipe if you like thick soup, a lot healthier without using any starch powder.
Never cooked chinese yam myself, gotta try it one of these days. Thanks for the tips!
KY, try it with boiled soup 1st, I’ve share a couple of recipes.