Hot and sour watercress and prawn broth
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 2
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp rice vinegar or white wine vinegar
- 500ml vegetable or chicken stock
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1-2 tsp golden caster sugar
- 2.5 cm piece root ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 small hot ones red chilli, thinly sliced
- 3 spring onions, thinly sliced
- 300g from a sustainable source raw peeled prawns
- 1 bunch watercress, straggly stalks)
Method
- STEP 1
Put the vinegar, stock, soy sauce, sugar (start with 1 tsp and add the second at the end if you want the soup sweeter), ginger, chillies and spring onions in a saucepan and bring to a simmer.
- STEP 2
Cook for a minute then add the prawns and cook until they turn pink. Stir in the watercress and turn off the heat. Taste and add more sugar if you like.
