All-Good Egg Flower Soup at Golden Star Chinese Restaurant in Salinas, California by Ruth Paget
If you have no allergies to eggs or dietary preferences against mixing eggs with chicken broth, then Chinese egg-flower soup at Golden Star Restaurant in Salinas, California is a great value for nutrition and staying within a budget.
The ingredients in this tasty soup are easy according to the Woks of Life website, which I consulted. They are:
-chicken stock
-sesame oil
-salt
-white pepper
-turmeric
-2 or 3 beaten eggs
-1 chopped scallion
The technique is everything for making delicious egg-flower soup.
Once the stock boils, use a cooking spoon to gently swirl the broth as if you were swirling polenta corn meal into the boiling stock. Pour the beaten eggs into the swirling whirlpool of stock so that they feather out.
Once the eggs are in the soup, add the chopped green onions. (If you use a cornstarch slurry to thicken the soup, you can stir that in before the green onions.)
Golden Star provides Sichuan pepper red chili sauce that is house made to go with the soup. I stir this into the egg-flower soup for a boost of Vitamins A and C.
To not be hungry in two hours, I often eat this with some rice or dip day-old artisanal bread into the soup.
We order pick-up usually at Golden Star, our neighborhood Chinese Restaurant, in Salinas, California and love having a nutritious, delicious, and low-budget dinner item available nearby.
By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France and developer of the Novgorod and Bento War Games
