Hot and sour watercress and prawn broth

Name: Hot and sour watercress and prawn broth
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 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)

Lulu Grimes

Published: March 25, 2015 at 3:08 PM

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Serves 2

Easy

Total time: 10 mins

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This is a delicious and unusual Asian soup that despite a number of ingredients, is so easy to prepare. The base is a well-flavoured, hot and sour stock in which the prawns and watercress are cooked.It couldn't be easier

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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)

Nutrition: per serving

kcal155
fat1.6g
saturates0.2g
carbs6.6g
fibre1.9g
protein29g
salt2.49g

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.

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