# Restaurants Style Hot and Sour Soup Recipe

This WINTER SPECIAL recipe is the ultimate cozy, spicy, and tangy comfort food, perfect for cold nights.

- Servings: 4 servings
- Total time: 30 min
- Cuisine: Chinese
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 tbsp Oil
- 2 Chicken thigh pieces
- 2 liter Water
- 2 Garlic cloves
- 1 Onion small size
- 8 Black pepper sabit
- 2 Eggs
- 4 tbsp Corn flour
- 1 Carrot chopped
- 0.5 cup Cabbage
- 1 Capsicum chopped medium size
- 1 tsp White pepper
- 1 tsp Black pepper crushed
- 1.5 tsp Salt
- 1 tbsp Vinegar/sirka
- 2 tbsp Soy sauce
- 0.5 tsp Dark soy sauce
- 1 tbsp Chili soy sauce
- 0.25 tsp Oyster sauce

## Instructions

1. Put the lid on & bring the chicken, water, garlic, onion, and black pepper to a boil to make the chicken stock.
2. Now cover it & cook it on medium flame for 20 to 25 minutes.
3. Separate the egg whites from the yolks.
4. Pour water little by little into the corn flour & make a slurry.
5. Strain the stock to remove the spices mixture.
6. Add the chopped carrot, cabbage, and capsicum to the stock.
7. Add white pepper, black pepper crushed, salt, vinegar, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, chili soy sauce, and oyster sauce.
8. Add the corn flour slurry to thicken the soup.
9. Add the egg white, pausing stirring for two seconds.

## Tips

- The key difference between white pepper & black pepper
- Easy vegetarian/vegan adaptations
- How to get the perfect soup consistency (not too thick, not too thin!)
- When adding the egg white, pause stirring for two seconds.

## Source

- Original video: https://youtu.be/ZNa0mL1Qziw?si=gXYOmviLUNX7_lxl
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/0639cdb9-782d-4758-a491-151a25ffd4b9
- Extracted: 2025-12-24

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