This Tomato Hot Pot with Beef is the perfect warming meal to take you through the winter. The tart and sweet tomatoes provide the perfect contrast to the marbled, thinly sliced beef. Enoki mushrooms and mung bean vermicelli both add additional textural contrast for a warming, satisfying meal. Is This Technically a “Hot Pot?” Well,
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Category Archive: ‘Soups & Stocks’
I have seen this Button Mushroom Soup so many times on the Chinese internet, with people going gaga for it. The recipe seemed so deceptively simple, I had to try it. Well, I can report back that I found this recipe worth sharing with our Woks of Life readers! I liked how Sarah put it:
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This Chinese Lamb Noodle Soup recipe is inspired by the rich, milky broths of Western Chinese cuisine. It’s full of aromatics, but has a mellow earthy flavor from long-simmered lamb shanks, which cook down and fall right off the bone. Bright green cilantro, Chinese celery, and chili oil cuts through the richness, making for an
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This Tom Yum Soup with Shrimp, or tom yum goong, is surprisingly easy to make, as long as you can find a few key ingredients, like Thai chilies, lemongrass, lime leaves, and fish sauce. It’s tart and tangy, with an incredible shrimp flavor that you get from frying the shrimp shells and making a quick
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Cantonese Bitter Melon Soup with Pork Bones is a great way to eat end-of-summer bitter melon. Bitter Melon is a superfood—one of the healthiest vegetables (fruits?) you can eat! Pork mellows out its strong flavor, and as we head into fall, this is the perfect transitional soup. This is our second bitter melon recipe this
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Unlike Western chicken stocks and broths, which use a mix of vegetables and herbs, this is a clear, pure-tasting Chinese chicken broth, flavored just with ginger and scallions. It’s the perfect canvas for all the recipes on the blog that call for chicken stock, from soups to wontons and noodles. It will also up your
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This is easily the best Ham and Bean Soup we’ve ever had! Plenty of beans, tender chunks of carrot, a perfectly thickened broth with no shortage of spices, and giant chunks of salty ham. Little tricks here and there make this soup truly stand out from the rest. It’s perfect any time of day (and
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If you have not read or tried our 20-Minute Congee, you’re in for a treat to learn this incredible and unique cooking technique, this time with fish and refreshing greens. For many purists and traditionalists, the idea of a 20-Minute Fish Congee sounds completely impossible. Rather than convince you, this is a recipe you have
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