Egg Drop Soup

Name: Egg Drop Soup
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 4 cup chicken stock (the best on hand); 1 tsp ginger (two coins, smashed); 1 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp cornstarch; 3 tbsp water (for the slurry); 3 unit eggs (well beaten); ½ tsp salt; ¼ tsp black pepper (white if you have it); 2 unit scallions (sliced thin); ½ tsp sesame oil

Soups & Sauces · East Asian · American

10 ingredients · 15 minutes · 2 servings

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177kcal14.8g protein8.8g fat11.6g carbs~$1.91/ serving*

Contains egg, sesame, soy · usually contains gluten

Restrictions

Containsegg · sesame · soyIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Usually containsgluten (soy sauce → Tamari)The usual version has it. One without it exists — it is the one named here.

Diets

No porkNo alcohol

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

4 cup	chicken stock (the best on hand)
1 tsp	ginger (two coins, smashed)
1 tbsp	soy sauce
2 tbsp	cornstarch
3 tbsp	water (for the slurry)
3 unit	eggs (well beaten)
½ tsp	salt
¼ tsp	black pepper (white if you have it)
2 unit	scallions (sliced thin)
½ tsp	sesame oil

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

½ cup

corn (sweet, a handful)

Steps

Simmer5 min
stock with the ginger coins
- chicken stock
- ginger
stock + smashed ginger + soy at a simmer, ginger fished out after — five minutes of infusion is all the seasoning this broth gets, which is why the stock itself carries the dish; water plus bouillon produces exactly what it sounds like
Simmer2 min
slurry in, until it turns silky
- cornstarch
- eggs
cornstarch + water stirred into a slurry and whisked in until the broth thickens to silk — the thickening comes BEFORE the egg on purpose: the slight viscosity is what suspends the ribbons instead of letting them sink into a clump at the bottom
Cook2 min
off the boil, egg in a thin stream, spoon circling slowly
the beaten egg poured in the thinnest stream you can manage while the other hand stirs one slow circle — the technique in full: slow stir for wide silk ribbons, fast stir for fine snowflakes, no stir for clouds; the pot must be below a boil or the egg scrambles into rags
Season1 min
off heat
+ salt + pepper + scallions + the drop of sesame oil — served immediately, in the takeout tradition of arriving first and disappearing fastest