Saturday, July 2, 2011

Recipe : Asian Chicken and Corn Soup

Ingredients
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
10 button mushrooms, sliced thin
10 small oyster mushrooms, sliced thin
1 (3 ounce) package enoki mushrooms, roots removed
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/4 cup chopped carrot
3 cloves garlic, smashed
salt and pepper to taste
2 (14.5 ounce) cans chicken broth
1 (15 ounce) can cream-style corn
1 (5 ounce) can chunk white chicken (such as Swanson�), drained
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
2 teaspoons Chinese five-spice powder
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/2 cup cold milk
15 leaves fresh Thai basil, chopped

Directions
Heat the vegetable oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Stir in the button mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, and enoki mushrooms; cook and stir until lightly browned. Add the onion, celery, green bell pepper, carrot, and garlic. Season with salt and pepper. Cook and stir for 3 to 4 minutes. Mix in the chicken broth, cream-style corn, chicken, rice wine vinegar, and five-spice powder, and bring to boil. Cover and reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer for about 20 minutes. Mix cornstarch with the milk in a small bowl, and stir into the soup. Stir until soup has thickened. Garnish each serving with chopped basil.

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