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Dinner · 25 min · 2 bowls

Hot-sour tofu soup

White pepper would be right; a lot of black pepper is Tuesday. Vinegar, egg ribbons, tofu, mushrooms. It should make you cough once. Don't make egg-drop and add vinegar.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 25 min

easy

Why tonight. White pepper would be right; a lot of black pepper is Tuesday. Vinegar, egg ribbons, tofu, mushrooms. It should make you cough once. Don't make egg-drop and add vinegar.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • stock
  • rice vinegar
  • black pepper
  • eggs
  • tofu

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: mushrooms.

Method

  1. Stock to a simmer. Vinegar and a lot of pepper until it makes you cough once.
  2. Tofu, mushrooms. Egg ribbons in a slow whirlpool.
  3. Don't make egg-drop and add vinegar after.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

stock
Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.
rice vinegar
The gentlest acid on the shelf — sour without the harsh edge of wine vinegar, which is why it works in dressings that go on raw vegetables.
black pepper
A fresh grind is a different spice from the pre-ground tin — the aroma is volatile and it is gone within days.
eggs
The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
tofu
Texture is a decision, not a given.

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.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

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Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.

The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.

Update the shelfWhy stock and rice vinegar workBack to the ranking