Chicken, Coriander And Mushroom Soup

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 3 cloves garlic
• 2 tablespoons coriander leaves
• 3 tablespoons peppercorns (more if you prefer)
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 liter stock (best to make half chicken half vegetable)
• 200 g dried chinese mushrooms, soaked in cold water for 20 minutes,drained and coarsely chopped
• 2 tablespoons ground coriander
• 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
• 250 g chicken, cut into strips
• 3 spring onions, thinly sliced (to garnish)
• 3 coriander sprigs (to garnish)
• black pepper

Recipe

• 1 using a pestle and mortar pound the garlic, coriander leaves and peppercorns.
• 2 in a pan, heat oil, add peppercorn mix and stir for 2 minutes.
• 3 stir in oyster sauce, ground coriander, mushrooms and stock.
• 4 simmer for 5-7 minutes.
• 5 lower heat so liquid barely moves.
• 6 drop in chicken pieces one at a time and cook gently for 5 minutes.
• 7 add pepper to taste.
• 8 garnish with spring onions and coriander sprigs and serve.