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How to make the Best Silky Smooth Egg Drop Soup

Egg Drop Soup is the simplest Chinese recipe and it is the perfect side dish when you make Chinese food at home. This easy recipe shows you how to make the best silky smooth soup and long strings of egg. This is the perfect soup to add to your next homemade Chinese dinner and your family and friends will think you purchased it from a Chinese restaurant.

Ingredients:

4 cups of chicken broth

1/2 tsp. salt

pinch of white pepper

2 tbsp. corn starch

2 tbsp. water

2 large eggs

1 tsp. sesame oil

chives for garnishment

Directions:

  1. Pour chicken broth into a small pot and heat on medium heat until starting to bubble.
  2. Mix corn starch and water in a small bowl and then pour into the chicken broth, stirring occasionally to prevent the corn starch from clumping.
  3. When the broth starts to boil turn off the heat and let cool until it stops boiling.
  4. Mix eggs in a bowl and pour into the warm chicken broth very slowly while stirring the eggs in. Make sure the broth has been removed from heat. If you pour the eggs in when the broth is boiling the eggs will break up into small balls instead of forming long silky strands.
  5. Add salt, pinch of pepper, and sesame oil and mix together.
  6. Serve and garnish with small cuttings of chopped chives.
  7. Enjoy!
The Best Silky Smooth Egg Drop Soup

Orange Chicken – Panda Express copycat recipe

I love Orange Chicken from Panda Express. It is like the crack cocaine of Chinese Food. I have looked for recipe’s as good as Panda Express and I am always disappointed. Finally I have developed my own recipe that is absolutely amazing. So, here it is for all of you to try.

Orange Chicken

(Panda Express copycat recipe)

Chicken part:

Ingredients: 

1 ½ pounds chicken thighs (de-boned)

1 egg

½ tsp black pepper

1 tsp soy sauce

1/4 cup corn starch

1/3 cup all purpose flour

1 tablespoons water

Sauce part:

Ingredients: 

¼ cup orange juice

½ cup brown sugar

2 tbsp rice vinegar

2 tbsp soy sauce

1 tsp chili garlic sauce

1 tbsp orange zest 

½ tbsp corn starch

1 tbsp cold water

Directions:

1.Cut up your chicken thighs into roughly 1 inch “bite size” pieces.

2.Mix the flour with the cut up chicken and mix so that all pieces are covered with flour.  Set this aside until later.

3.In a separate bowl mix together the egg, salt, black pepper, corn starch and water together. 

4.When well mixed you can add the chicken pieces into the mixture and cover the chicken pieces thoroughly with the coating. 

5. Heat a pan with 2 inches of oil on the stove.

6. While the oil heats mix together all the ingredients for your sauce and then pour into a sauce pan and sauté on low while we fry the chicken pieces. 

7. Carefully drop the chicken pieces into the oil and fry until golden brown. 

8.When all pieces of chicken are cooked add your chicken to your cooked sauce and mix the chicken into the sauce coating all pieces.

9.Serve over rice. 

You can garnish with chopped green onions and/or sesame seeds.

ENJOY!