Chinese Red Soup

Chilli, garlic and ginger soup.

Serves: 6

Preparation: 5 mins

Cooking: 15 mins

Ingredients

  • 1 litre good quality vegetable stock
  • 2 to taste, small red chillies, deseeded and shredded
  • 2 large whole (unpeeled) garlic cloves
  • 2.5-3cm of fresh root ginger, peeled and finely shredded
  • 1 small or 1/2 large red pepper, deseeded and finely shredded
  • 2 medium firm tomatoes, deseeded and diced
  • 6 red radishes, trimmed and diced
  • 1 tbsp light soy sauce
  • 50g cellophane (stir fry) noodles, broken into short lengths
  • 250g pkt Cauldron Organic Tofu (Natural soya bean curd), drained and diced in 1.5cm cubes

Method

  1. Pour the stock into a large pan and add the chilli, garlic and ginger. Bring to the boil and simmer for 10 min.
  2. Remove and discard the garlic cloves. Add the remaining ingredients including the tofu and simmer for a further 5 min before serving.

Tip: Garnish with Sesame oil and slithers of spring onion

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