Vegetable Manchow Soup

Ingredients

• 8-10 button mushrooms, roughly chopped
• 1 medium carrot, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped green capsicum
• ½ cup chopped cabbage
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1 tablespoon chopped ginger
• 2 green chillies, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
• 2 cups vegetable stock
• 1½ tablespoons dark soy sauce
• Salt to taste
• Black pepper powder to taste
• 1 tablespoon corn flour
• 1 tablespoon diagonally sliced spring onion greens
• 1¼ teaspoons vinegar
• 1 egg
• Fried noodles for garnishing

Method

1. Heat oil in a non-stick pan. Add ginger, green chillies and garlic, mix and sauté till fragrant.  
2. Add mushrooms, carrots, capsicum and cabbage, mix well and cook for 3-4 minutes.
3. Add vegetable stock, ½ cup water and soy sauce and stir to mix. Add salt and pepper powder, mix well and bring to a boil.
4. Add some water to the cornflour and mix well. Add this to the soup, mix well and cook till it thickens.
5. Add spring onion greens and 1 teaspoon vinegar and mix well.
6. Break egg in a bowl. Add remaining vinegar, whisk well, add to the soup and stir to scramble.
7. Garnish with fried noodles and serve piping hot.