Mushroom and Vegetable Hot and Sour Soup

Nothing can be more filling than the mushrooms cooked in vegetable with variety of flavours added to it. The soup is particularly delicious and the different vegetables together with mushroom make it very healthy indeed.

Serving for 4 people

Time taken to prepare- 20 minutes

Ingredients:

1. �         Button mushrooms- quartered and cleaned thoroughly- 2 cups
2. �         Onions- 2 large minced
3. �         Beans- 8-9 chopped
4. �         Carrots- 1 medium sized chopped into small pieces
5. �         spring onions- 2 finely chopped
6. �         parsley leaves- fresh and finely chopped- � cup
7. �         garlic and ginger paste- 1 tablespoon- the portion of the garlic should be dominant
8. �         a pinch of sugar
9. �         salt to taste
10. �         oregano- 1 tablespoon
11. �         lemon juice- half a lemon
12. �         salt to taste
13. �         black pepper to taste
14. �         chilli vinegar- or chop 3 chillies and marinade it overnight in a cup of vinegar
15. �         water- 1.5 litres
16. �         corn flour- 1 tablespoon dissolved thoroughly in a cup of water
17. �         butter- 3 tablespoon

Direction for preparation

�         In a frying pan, add the butter and the onions. Add the pepper and oregano as well to the pan. Once the onions start getting golden brown in colour, add the pinch of sugar to it. This will help the onions get even more colour and also add colour to the c=soup in turn.

�         Add the beans. Carrots and spring onion to the pan as well. Cook it until the vegetables are soft but firm to bite.

�         After this, add the mushroom to the pan and the salt to taste. Add the ginger garlic paste as well in this step. Keep in mind the amount of salt you would like for the entire preparation while adding the salt in this step. Add salt such that you do not have to add it again.

�         The mushrooms should be cooked half way when you add the water to the preparation. Put the lid on and bring it to boil. After that take off the lid and let it boils so that the water evaporated and the broth is reduced to a significant extent but not half of the amount you had used initially.

�         Add the lemon juice to the preparation and also the dissolved baking soda while stirring the soup continuously. The consistency of the soup would thicken to some extent on using the baking soda solution with it. However you can tweak the consistency of the soup as per your liking.

�         Before serving the soup add the chilli vinegar to it as per your taste. 2 tablespoon of the chilli vinegar per serving would give it an average jest which can suit the liking of every individual without tasting too overpowering.

�         One can also use the white of an egg to thicken the consistency of the soup further and also add flavours to it. Simply break an egg, separate the white portion and pour it while the soup is boiling while continuously stirring the soup and fine films of egg white would be formed.