This restaurant-style Hot and Sour Soup recipe is simply amazing! Only a handful of ingredients are needed and you can have it ready in less than 30 minutes. Perfect for a quick, week night dinner that you know everyone will love! 
One of my favorite soups to order when I go out to eat is Hot and Sour Soup. A lot of people don’t realize how easy it is to make at home!
Hot and Sour Soup Basic Ingredients:
Mushrooms: I used white mushrooms for this recipe because that’s what my local grocery store had on hand but, shiitake mushrooms will give it a more authentic flavor if you can get your hands on some.
Sauces: There is soy sauce, rice wine vinegar and sriracha sauce. I have this “thing” for all things sour and ALL things spicy, which makes this soup a home-run! If you want the soup spicier, add a little more sriracha. If you like it more on the sour side, add more vinegar. It’s totally up to you!
Protein: Eggs make up the bulk of protein in this soup along with slices of tofu. If you don’t like tofu, just omit it, no big deal. You can leave out the protein all together or substitute it with cooked chicken, pork or beef.
Thickener: This recipe calls for corn starch to thicken the soup. You can substitute arrow root if you don’t use corn starch.
How to make Hot and Sour Soup:
- Bring the broth to a simmer over medium high heat in a large saucepan. Add the mushrooms, soy sauce, vinegar, sriracha sauce and white pepper. Continue to simmer for 5 minutes.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the corn starch and cold water to make the slurry. Add it to the soup and stir well. Simmer for 5 minutes or until the soup starts to thicken.
- Pour the beaten eggs into the soup while gently stirring.
- Add the tofu and green onions, stir and remove from heat. Serve immediately.
You’ll love how easy this soup is to make!
Other easy soup recipes you might like!
- Chicken Noodle Soup
- Tomato Soup
- Instant Pot Black Bean Soup
- French Onion Soup
- Instant Pot Cabbage Roll Soup
- Instant Pot Beef Stew
- Cajun Shrimp Chowder
- Turkey and Sausage Gumbo
- Lentil Soup
Did you make this Hot and Sour Soup recipe? Let me know how it turned out by ★★★★★ RATING this recipe and leave a comment below!!
Hot and Sour Soup
Ingredients
- 6 cups beef or chicken broth reduced sodium
- 1/2 cup mushrooms sliced (shitake mushrooms give it a richer, more authentic flavor)
- 1/4 cup lite sodium soy sauce
- 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon sriracha sauce
- 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 3 tablespoons corn starch
- 3 tablespoons cold water
- 2 eggs well beaten
- 6 oz. firm tofu sliced into strips
- 2 green onions sliced
Instructions
- Bring the broth to a simmer over medium high heat in a large saucepan. Add the mushrooms, soy sauce, vinegar, sriracha sauce and white pepper. Continue to simmer for 5 minutes.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the corn starch and cold water to make the slurry. Add it to the soup and stir well. Simmer for 5 minutes or until the soup starts to thicken.
- Pour the beaten eggs into the soup while gently stirring.
- Add the tofu and green onions, stir and remove from heat. Serve immediately.
Notes
- Hot and Sour Soup can be stored in an air tight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. It can be frozen for up to 3 month.
Outstanding recipe that hits all my requirements: Inexpensive, easy to make, delicious and open to adding new ingredients that need to be used! I added a bit of leftover braised beef rib to replace the tofu and also threw in a can of drained bamboo shoots just because I like them! Thank you so much for this recipe!
Hi Jack, thank you so much for the 5 star review! 🙂
This is a great recipe. It was quick and it didn’t matter that I was out of tofu, I used chicken. I didn’t have Siracco so I substituted Schechwan sauce. Hubby ate two bowls! Thank you, this one is a keeper!
Best soup this season.
Excellent! Made it last night. My wife and I loved it. I also told our nephew who is a hot and sour soup connoisseur about it. He asked me for the recipe, something he has never done before.
The best hot and sour soup I’ve had in a long time! Hubby loved it.
I may need to share the recipe with the restaurant up the street
Hi Becky! So glad you liked it!!
Hello. 🙂 What if we hate mushrooms? Do we just omit those?
Yes, feel free to omit the mushrooms!
Extremely satisfying and simple to make
Thanks Chuck!
Holy Cow! This is the BEST hot and sours I’ve had! 10 stars
Yay! So glad you liked it so much! 🙂