Vietnamese Hot and Sour Soup

Vietnamese Hot and Sour Soup

piątek, 14 lutego 2014

Vietnamese Hot and Sour Soup

Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 4 ounces rice noodles, cooked, rinsed and drained as directed on package
• 5 cups chicken broth or 5 cups vegetable broth
• 2 stalks lemongrass, crushed and thinly sliced diagonally (use only bottom third to half of the stalk)
• 1 cup shiitake mushroom, sliced (or button mushrooms)
• 1/2 cup onion, thinly sliced
• 1/2 lb medium shrimp, cleaned and deveined
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce (or slightly more to taste)
• 2 1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice

Directions

• 1 In a large pot, bring broth, lemongrass, mushrooms, and onion to a boil.
• 2 Add shrimp, fish sauce and lime juice to the pot.
• 3 Cook until shrimp is opaque (1 - 2 minutes).
• 4 Add rice noodles and heat another minute.
• 5 Serve in soup bowls with garnishes as desired.