Singapore Mushroom Soup

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Mushroom soup

Ingredients

• chicken
• 2 spring onions
• 1 onion, diced
• 125 g button mushrooms
• 3¾ cups chicken stock (made as part of this recipe)
• 1 carrot, diced
• 1 tbsp sherry
• chilli sauce as required
• soy sauce as required
• 2 cm piece fresh ginger, sliced
• chopped green chillies in white vinegar as required
• salt and pepper as required

Procedures

1. Slice the spring onions and mushrooms thinly.
2. For the stock, boil the chicken in plenty of water (to which the diced onions and carrots have been added) till the chicken becomes soft.
3. To the above stock, add ginger and spring onions; bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 20 minutes
4. Add the mushrooms and simmer for another 10 mins.
5. Remove the ginger from the soup, add the sherry and seasoning to taste.
6. Serve hot along with the chilli sauce, soy sauce and chillies in vinegar.