Hearty Instant Pot Hot and Sour Soup
Make a delicious and healthy hot and sour soup in your Instant Pot! Loaded with mushrooms, tofu, and bamboo shoots, you'll never order it at a restaurant again!
Equipment
Ingredients
- 8 cups chicken broth
- 12 oz mushrooms shitake or baby Bella/crimini
- 8 oz can bamboo shoots or strips
- ¼ cup low sodium soy sauce
- ¼ cup rice wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoon fresh ginger minced
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon chili garlic sauce
- 2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 tablespoon cornstarch
- 3 eggs whisked
- 10 oz firm tofu cut into ½" small cubes
- 3-4 green onions sliced
Instructions
- Add the chicken broth, sliced mushrooms, tofu cubes, bamboo shoots, green onions, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, fresh ginger, garlic salt, sesame oil, and chili garlic sauce to the pressure cooker.
- Cook the soup mixture on Manual High (some models call this Pressure Cook) for 1 minute. The pot will take about 10-12 minutes to come to pressure.
- While the soup is pressure cooking, whisk the eggs into a small bowl.
- Once the Instant Pot is done cooking, do a natural release for 5 minutes. Do a quick release of the remaining pressure in the pot. Remove the lid.
- Scoop out ¼ cup of hot broth and add it to a small bowl. Whisk in the cornstarch until it's smooth. Add this to the pot and stir for 1 minute or until the soup has thickened.
- While stirring the soup, Add the whisked eggs to the pot in a thin stream to create egg ribbons.
- Adjust the seasoning as needed, to make the soup spicier add a little more chili garlic sauce (or add red pepper flakes), to make it a little more sour add additional vinegar. You can also add more salt and pepper to taste.
Garnish with more green onions. Enjoy!
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Notes
To make a hearty main dish soup with meat, in place of the tofu you can substitute 1 lb of raw chicken or raw pork cubes.
The hot and sour soup is easy to adapt to various dietary options. To make it vegan, use vegetable stock instead of chicken. For gluten-free, swap the soy sauce for wheat-free tamari.
TIPS- traditional hot and sour soup uses wood mushrooms, to make this recipe using common grocery store ingredients, we used a mix of shitake and crimini (aka baby Bella). To keep costs down it's totally fine to use all crimini mushrooms.
The soup can be cut in half if you want to serve it on the side as a cup of soup instead of having a main dish large bowl.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 115kcalCarbohydrates: 8gProtein: 10gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 75mgSodium: 1452mgFiber: 2gSugar: 3g
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