Asian Soup Recipes For Dinner

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Now that the air’s beginning to turn crisp, it’s time for us to share this Chinese Winter Melon Soup recipe with meatballs.

Winter melons are grown in summer and harvested in late summer through early winter, making this a great summer/fall transition recipe! (Plus, who doesn’t love meatballs?)

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You will love this Winter Melon Soup with Meatballs because not only do the meatballs come together relatively easily (many of my favorite recipes are made with ground meat, because there’s no rinsing, chopping, deboning, or trimming needed), the soup itself comes together in a flash. The result is an easy, light soup that can make a full meal or serve as a complement to a stir-fry.

We’re also in the late days of summer and early days of fall, when there are hot days mixed in with cool ones, and you might not yet be ready for big bowls of chili or beef soup .

For those with kids going back to school, there’s nothing like a healthy soup to ward off classroom colds! We’ve posted many of our favorite traditional soups over the years—check them all out !

Asian Vegetable Soup With Noodles Recipe

Winter melon is a big gourd with thick, silvery green skin that cooks quickly when peeled and sliced. Like a pumpkin, you’ll need to trim the outer layer away, and if you store a whole, unpeeled winter melon in a cool, dry place, it has a shelf life of a few months!

With its mellow taste, winter melon is best used in braised dishes, with or without meat, and in soups. But I’ve also seen it in stir-fries with salted pork or ham.

There’s also a famous Chinese pastry—some of you have likely heard of wife cakes, or lao po bing (老婆饼)—with winter melon in the filling. Like other common Chinese pastry fillings (lotus seed paste, red bean paste, taro, etc.), if you cook down winter melon and add sugar, it makes an excellent sweet treat.

Nourishing Chinese Soup Recipes

Many have asked why our meat filling recipes often say to whip the filling for a long period of time, and also why in only one direction?

It’s a way to strengthen the fibers of the meat, emulsifying it so everything binds well together. It also changes the texture of the meat, making it less “meaty” and more elastic and snappy.

In many Asian meatball and fish ball recipes, you’ll see people smashing the meat mixture to give them a more pleasant and springy texture. This is really best done by hand, but for a similar effect, you could also use an electric mixer (I include instructions for both in the recipe below!)

Asian Chicken Noodle Soup

Whip in one direction for at least 10 minutes by hand using a pair of chopsticks. Use a vigorous circular motion, until the ground meat mixture becomes thick and pasty, with a little resistance as you whip. This is really best done by hand, but for a similar effect, you could also use the paddle attachment of your electric mixer on low speed for 6-7 minutes.

Now, form the meatballs. Brush both of your palms with oil to prevent sticking, take a large spoonful of the meat mixture, and roll it into a ball using both palms. The meatballs should be the size of a golf ball. Arrange them on a lightly oiled plate with space between them. Refrigerate while you prepare the rest of the soup.

Place a soup pot over medium heat and add 1 tablespoon oil. Cook the white parts of the scallions for about a minute.

Spicy Asian Chicken Zoodle Soup

When the soup is boiling, carefully lower the meatballs into the soup using an oiled spoon. I did it with my hands, but a spoon is safer and easier.

Add in ½ teaspoon ground white pepper and ½ teaspoon sesame oil. Bring to a boil again. Add the glass noodles, stir, and salt to taste.

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This Winter Melon Soup with Meatballs is a classic Chinese soup recipe. The meatballs and the soup both come together quickly, making this an easy recipe to make in late summer, fall, and early winter.

Calories: 259 kcal (13%) Carbohydrates: 16 g (5%) Protein: 13 g (26%) Fat: 15 g (23%) Saturated Fat: 5 g (25%) Cholesterol: 41 mg (14%) Sodium: 612 mg (26%) Potassium: 296 mg (8%) Fiber: 1 g (4%) Sugar: 1 g (1%) Vitamin A: 112 IU (2%) Vitamin C: 9 mg (11%) Calcium: 28 mg (3%) Iron: 1 mg (6%)

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Restaurant Style Chinese Hot And Sour Soup

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Judy is the mom of The Woks of Life family. Born in Shanghai, she arrived in the U.S. at age 16. Fluent in both English and three separate Chinese dialects, she's our professional menu translator when we're eating our way through China. Dedicated to preserving disappearing recipes and traditions, her specialty is all things traditional, from mooncakes to home-style stir-fries.This restaurant-style Hot and Sour Soup recipe is the best!! It’s quick and simple to make, easy to adapt to your personal taste preferences, and so delicious.

, after literally dozens and dozens of you have requested it. (This usually comes up when I’m chatting about my favorite egg drop soup recipe — apparently many of you usually opt for the hot and sour soup at your favorite Chinese restaurants and have wanted to learn how to make it!)

Chinese Rice Soup

Well, good news, friends! Traditional hot and sour soup is actually incredibly easy to make as well. And the bonus of making it at home is that it’s also incredibly easy to

To your taste. Like it extra hot? Add in more chili garlic sauce. Like it extra sour? Add in more rice wine vinegar. Like it vegetarian? Make it with tofu. Like the meat version? Just add in some pork.

Trust me, this is one of those restaurant recipes that will taste just as good at home. And on chilly winter weeks like this one that we’re having here in Kansas City, it’s guaranteed to warm you up in the most

Easy Asian Chicken Soup Recipe

This classic Chinese hot and sour soup recipe is quick and easy to make, full of delicious flavor, easy to make vegetarian (with tofu!) or with pork, and it totally rivals any soup I’ve tried at a Chinese restaurant!

Pork option: Or, you’re welcome to make this with pork instead of tofu.  Just add in a half pound of cooked pork — ground pork, or you can thinly-slice pork chops or pork loin — in place of the tofu.

White pepper: I prefer using a pinch of white pepper in this soup instead of black pepper.  But if you are new to cooking with white pepper, heads up that it has a much stronger (and slightly) different flavor than black pepper!  I recommend starting with a small pinch, then you can always add more to taste.A pantry friendly Chinese hot and sour soup that is so quick and easy to make and so much better than take out that you’ll never order it out again!

Asian Chicken And Rice Soup

The Lunar New Year, often called the Chinese New Year, is next week and I take that as the perfect excuse to pull out some of my favourite Chinese recipes and to try some new ones. One of my favourite Chinese take out dishes is the hot and sour soup and a few years ago I shared a traditional Chinese hot and sour soup recipe but it required a few ingredients that you could only get on a trip down to Chinatown or a well stocked local Asian grocery store so I decided to come up with a more accessible or pantry friendly version. This version of Chinese hot and sour soup does not require any rare ingredients, it takes less 20 minutes to make and what’s more is that it’s still better than most take out versions! You really couldn’t find a much simpler soup recipe than this one, you pretty much just throw everything into the pot, heat it, pour in the egg drop along with a few seasoning and you are done! If you are looking for a quick, easy and tasty Chinese hot and sour soup, this is it and it was perfect for me right now since it is far too cold out for me to head down to Chinatown to pick up some of those