Hot and Sour Soup

Cooking Time: 30 min.
Preparation Time: 15 min.
Serves 4.
Ingredient

• 1 vegetarian seasoning cube
• 7 cloves of garlic (lehsun)
• 50 mm(2") piece ginger (adrak) julliennes
• 5 lemongrass stalks (hare chai ki patti), tied
• 1/4 cup chopped corriander (dhania)
• 3 green chillies, slit
• 3 tbsp sliced canned mushrooms (khumbh)
• 7 baby corn , cut diagonally
• 1 tsp lemon juice

For the garnish

• 2 tbsp chopped spring onions
• 2 tbsp chopped coriander (dhania)
• 2 tbsp carrots , cut into thin strips

Method

1. Tie the lemon grass stalks and coriander together using some lemon grass.
2. Boil 5 cups of water in a pan. Add the seasoning cube, garlic, ginger, lemon grass and coriander (tied together), cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
3. When the aroma stasrts getting released, discard the garlic, ginger, lemon grass and coriander bunch.
4. Add the chillies, mushrooms, baby corn and salt and simmer for another 15 minutes in the covered pan.
5. Add the lemon juice just before serving.
6. Garnish the soups bowl with spring onions, coriander and carrot, pour the hot soup over it and serve at once.