Chinese-style Shrimp Soup

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/4 cup water
• 3 teaspoons cornflour
• 4 cups fish stock or 4 cups vegetable stock
• 2 cups thinly sliced carrots
• 3 teaspoons soy sauce
• 250 g small green shrimp, peeled and deveined
• 1 cup thinly sliced shredded chinese cabbage
• 2 thinly sliced shallots
• 1 (225 g) can sliced water chestnuts, drained
• 125 g snow peas, trimmed
• 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil

Recipe

• 1 in a small bowl, blend water smoothly with cornflour.
• 2 set aside.
• 3 in a large pan, combine stock, carrot and soy sauce.
• 4 bring to the boil, then simmer over a medium heat for 5 minutes.
• 5 add shrimp, cabbage, shallots and water chestnuts to stock mixture, cook for 4 minutes.
• 6 stir in cornflour mixtue, snow peas and sesame oil.
• 7 cook stirring continuously, until soup boils and thickens slightly.
• 8 ladle soup into 4 serving bowls.
• 9 serve immediately.