Hot and Sour Soup Pot with Chicken, Pineapple and Enoki Mushrooms
Bring this orange pot straight to the table, as in a Southeast Asian hot pot. Pineapple and tamarind give a sweet tang, chili gives heat, and the enoki and spinach cook in it at the last minute.
Bring to a boil in a wide pot the stock, lemongrass, ginger and tomatoes.
StoveWide, shallow pot
2
Turn down the heat and simmer 15 minutes, until the tomatoes soften and color the stock.
⚙ SimmeringStove
💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
3
Stir in the tamarind, fish sauce, sugar and chili paste. Taste: the soup should be sour and salty, with a heat you feel in your throat. Adjust to taste.
💡Balance at the end, once the flavors have come together: add sour, sweet and salty a little at a time, tasting between additions.
4
Add the corn and pineapple and cook 5 minutes.
Stove
5
Add the chicken, gently separate the slices and cook 4 minutes, until the chicken turns white.
Stove
💡Thin chicken slices cook in the simmering stock within minutes and stay tender: add them after the hard vegetables, not at the start.
6
Trim the base of the enoki and separate into small clusters.
KnifeCutting board
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Add the enoki mushrooms, spinach and sliced chili and cook 1 minute, until the leaves wilt.
Stove
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Bring the pot to the table on a hot plate, scatter the basil on top and serve with the rice and lime wedges: everyone fills a bowl and adds lime to taste.
Portable hot plate
580calories
38 gprotein
84 gcarbs
10 gfat
● protein 27%● carbs 58%● fat 15%
Per serving (1070 g), of 4 servings
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⚖ About the ingredients
Chicken stock: measured in cup in this recipe: 1 cup = 240 g · 12 kcal per 100 g · More about Chicken stock →
Jasmine rice: measured in cup in this recipe: 1 cup = 59 g · 365 kcal per 100 g · More about Jasmine rice →
Lime: measured in pieces: one ≈ 67 g · 30 kcal per 100 g · More about Lime →
🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 One cooking vessel
Stove· 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
Portable hot plate· Also works: Stove (None) · Camping gas stove (Outdoors only)
Wide, shallow pot· Also works: Deep skillet (sauté pan) (None)· 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (Layers instead of a single layer)
Cutting board· Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
Knife· Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
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