Dinner · 15 min · Amounts not specified
Egg drop soup
Thin the eggs, stir the hot stock into ribbons. It is done in a minute.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 15 min
easyWhy tonight. Thin the eggs, stir the hot stock into ribbons. It is done in a minute.
What it needs
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- eggs
- stock
- scallion
- ginger
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: soy sauce, sesame oil.
Method
- Stock to a bare simmer with ginger and scallion.
- Beat the eggs thin. Stir the pot into a slow whirlpool and drizzle so they set as ribbons.
- Soy and sesame off the heat. A minute, not a boil.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
- StockPulling gelatin and flavor out of bones and aromatics without pulling out the things that make it cloudy and bitter.thin and watery · cloudy · bitter · greasy
- Pan sauceTurning what stuck to the pan into a sauce. Two minutes of work at the end of something you already cooked.watery · too salty · greasy · broken · bitter
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardScrambled Egg Omelet - Food WishesFood WishesScramble against omelet on the same stove, which makes the heat-and-stirring tradeoff visible.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardTruly Foolproof Poached EggsJ. Kenji López-AltPoaching without the wispy strands. The trick is what happens before the egg reaches the water.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- stock
- Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.
- scallion
- Two ingredients on one stalk.
- ginger
- Bright and hot when raw, mellow and warm when cooked.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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Edamame ginger soup
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Soy and ginger noodle broth
Wheat noodles in a soy-ginger broth. Tofu or a jammy egg on top.
Next
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