Preethi's Andhra Kitchen: Egg Drop Soup

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Posted by MY WORLD OF RECIPES at 2:50 PM

Ingredients :-

Broth : 2 cups ( u can use chicken broth or vegetable broth or any broth according to ur wish)

Egg : 1

Pepper : 1/4tspn

Salt: 1/4tspn

Garlic powder :1/4tspn or u can use 1/2 garlic pod pounded

Ginger : 1/4tspn crushed

MSG :pinch

Soya sauce : 1/4 tspn

Vinegar :1/4tspn

Cornflour : 1Tbspn

Spring onions : few

Preparation :-

If u have a ready to use broth u can skip this step otherwise take 1 bullion( I used knorr chicken bullion) and melt in 2 cups of water and bring to boil . With this broth is ready.
Break 1 egg in a bowl and beat till it foams and put it aside.
Take a bowl add cornflour and add 3tbspns of water and mix nicely without any lumps and put it aside.
Chop Spring onions finely and put it aside.
In boiling broth add salt , pepper powder , garlic , ginger ,MSG, soya sauce and vinegar.
When this boils fully slowly add cornflour paste stirring simultaneously. This cornflour acts as a thickening agent. Let this boil again for a couple of minutes.
In boiling soup slowly add beaten egg stirring simultaneously.
Let this boil for 3 mins . Switch off stove. With this egg drop soup is ready.
Take 2 soup bowls and add few chopped spring onions in each of them.
Pour hot soup on this spring onions . Because of pouring hot soup on spring onions they get litely cooked and at the same time they remain crunchy.
Serve them hot and enjoy home made egg drop soup.