This is the soup you order when you’re sick, cold, or questioning your life choices. Now you can make it at home—with less oil and zero mystery ingredients.
🍜 What This Recipe Is Trying to Achieve
- Comfort + warmth
- High-protein, low-fat meal
- Something that feels like effort… but isn’t
🛒 Ingredients (Serves 1–2)
- 2 cups chicken or vegetable stock
- ½ cup mushrooms, sliced
- ½ cup firm tofu, cubed
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp vinegar
- ½ tsp white pepper
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp cornflour + 1 tbsp water (slurry)
👩🍳 How to Make It
- Bring stock to a simmer
- Add mushrooms and tofu
- Stir in soy sauce, vinegar, white pepper
- Add cornflour slurry to slightly thicken
- Slowly drizzle in beaten egg while stirring
- Taste and adjust seasoning
🥗 Nutritional Highlights
- Protein: Tofu + egg combo
- Low fat: No heavy oils
- Immune support: Warm, hydrating, comforting
🔁 Storage & Reheat Tips
- Keeps 2 days in fridge
- Reheat gently on stove
- May thicken—just add water or stock
🔄 Easy Swaps
- Add shredded chicken
- Use chilli for extra heat
- Swap tofu for prawns
💡 Plan4One Tip
Make a double batch. Future you will feel extremely smug.
2 responses to “Light Hot & Sour Soup (Takeaway Vibes Without the Regret)”
I’m looking at the picture to see what the egg is supposed to look like once stored in soup. Cant tell.
When you pour the egg into hot & sour soup, what you end up with depends entirely on how you stir (and how fast you pour):
1 – Slow drizzle + gentle stirring → you’ll get those classic silky egg ribbons floating through the soup (this is the takeaway look most people expect)
2 – Pour a bit faster + stir more → finer, softer strands that almost disappear into the broth
3 – Dump it in + stir like you mean it → more of a cloudy, egg-drop effect (still tasty, just less pretty)
The key is to have the soup at a gentle simmer—not boiling like crazy; and to stir in one direction while slowly drizzling the egg.
If you’re going for that classic takeaway feel, aim for number 1. But if it turns a bit cloudy? Still delicious. Still counts. We’re cooking for one, not competing on MasterChef.
Plan4One rule: if it tastes good and you didn’t have to Uber Eats it, you’ve nailed it 👍