Recipe: Yummy Egg Drop Soup

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Recipe: Yummy Egg Drop Soup Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Egg Drop Soup. Stir the salt, ginger and chives into the saucepan, and bring to a rolling boil. In a large saucepan, bring broth to a boil over medium heat. Combine cornstarch and water until smooth; gradually stir into broth.

Bring chicken broth to a boil in soup pot.

Combine water and cornstarch; stir into boiling broth.

Stir a small amount of hot broth into slightly beaten egg.

You can cook Egg Drop Soup using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Egg Drop Soup

  1. You need 2 of big packages of liptons chicken noodle soup.

  2. You need 4 of large eggs.

  3. Prepare 1 of garlic clove, minced.

  4. You need 1 of tsp garlic herb spice.

  5. It’s 1 of tsp grated parmesan cheese (optional).

  6. You need 1 of tsp hot sauce (optional).

  7. Prepare 8 of cups water.

The name "Egg Drop" comes from how the soup is made—dropping raw egg into hot soup.

It doesn't take a genius to figure that out.

But actually, the direct translation in Chinese is egg flower soup, because the egg creates large and small swirls in the soup in a flower-like pattern (scroll down to the recipe video below to see that in.

So What Is Egg Drop Soup?

Egg Drop Soup instructions

  1. In a large saucepan filled with water, put in both packages of soup mix, garlic, spices.

  2. While waiting for soup to boil; mix ur eggs in a bowl, set aside..

  3. Once soup is in a roiling boil slowly pour in, little by little, the egg mixture..

  4. Continue to boil for 5-8 minutes.

In case this recipe is new to you, egg drop soup is a staple at Chinese restaurants across the United States.

It's typically made with lightly-seasoned chicken or veggie broth, and filled with delicious egg "ribbons", which are created by whisking raw eggs into the simmering broth.

The beauty of egg drop soup lies in the fact that it contains only three core ingredients, and they're all kitchen staples.

First up is the broth, chicken being the most common.

I fondly remember the sound of the can opener working on cans of Swanson's chicken broth as the signal that egg drop soup was forthcoming.