Fluffy Egg-Drop Soup with Boiled Chicken Broth
- 600 ml Cooking liquid from boiling chicken
- 1 Egg
- 1 dash Pepper
- 1 Salt
- 1 Katakuriko slurry
- Bring the strained cooking liquid from boiling the chickento a boil.
- If it is not salty enough, add salt.
- If it is too salty, add water to adjust.
- Once it comes to a rapid boil, season with pepper and reduce heat to low.
- Add the katakuriko slurry (see Hints) to thicken the soup.
- The key is to add it gradually.
- While stirring the soup gently with a ladle, gradually pour in the beaten egg.
- Make sure you pour in the eggs while the soup is steadily bubbling.
- If the temperature of the soup is too low, or if you stir it too vigorously, the soup will be cloudy.
- If you add too much of the egg all at once, or do not stir the soup, the egg will become lumpy.
- Once the egg sets, turn off the heat immediately.
- Do not bring it to a rapid boil.
- You can make delicious chicken meatballs with the cooking liquid from boiling chicken.
- You can also make a delicious soup from the leftover chicken skins
- Chinese-style soup with fluffy chicken meatball and cellophane noodles
- Use the same cooking liquid to make Chinese-style mixed rice
- Chinese-style soup with mizuna greens
boiling chicken, egg, pepper, salt, slurry
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/145855-fluffy-egg-drop-soup-with-boiled-chicken-broth (may not work)