Hot & sour garlic chive soup with tofu
4 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | mediums | Carrots -- sliced |
| ¼ | cup | Fresh garlic chives -- |
| Minced | ||
| 3 | Fresh lovage or celery | |
| Leaves | ||
| 3 | Romaine lettuce or Swiss | |
| Chard leaves -- torn into | ||
| Pieces | ||
| 4 | Dried cloud ear or shiitake | |
| Mushrooms | ||
| 1 | 6 inch piece dried arame, | |
| Dulse, or tombu seaweed | ||
| (package) | ||
| 1 | small | Fresh or dried hot red |
| Pepper | ||
| 2 | tablespoons | Rice wine vinegar |
| 1 | quart | Water |
| 1 | cup | Dry white wine |
| 1 | teaspoon | Dark sesame oil |
| ½ | pounds | Firm tofu -- cut into inch |
| Pieces | ||
| 2 | tablespoons | Rice or barley miso sauce |
| Garlic chive leaves -- for | ||
| Garnish | ||
| Garlic chive flowers -- for | ||
| Garnish | ||
Directions
In a large heavy pot, combine all the ingredients above the line.
Bring to a boil, then cover, lower the heat to medium-low, and simmer for
30 minutes. Remove the mushrooms and slice thinly, discarding the tough portions. Strain the broth and return it to the pan. Add the tofu and mushrooms and simmer for 5 minutes. Dissolve the miso in a small amount of the broth, stir it into the soup, then immediately remove the pot from the heat. Garnish with minced garlic chive leaves and serve at once.
Substitution for the Chinese garlic chives: 1 clove garlic and twice as much volumn of fresh chives. ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NOTES : This recipe makes one Japanese Miso - a seawood and mushroom flavored vegetable broth. Strain the broth and return mushrooms to pot. Then add tofu, Chinese chives, and agar (a thickener made from seaweed). Quick soup: check the import section of the grocery. Buy 1 envelop (or box) Japanese Miso with Mushroom. Make according to package directions. Taste and add red pepper flakes and a little rice vinegar to taste. Add tofu and heat through. The packaged soup contains the agar to thicken the broth. Do add Chinese chive. (I've used society garlic - well cleaned.) From phannema@... Wed Aug 14 15:01:29 1996 Recipe By : Maggie Oster's Herb Garden (1993:36) NY: MacMillan