Chinese Tomato Soup

Ingredients:

For veg stock:
1. Select any 2-3 vegetables of your choice from onions, pumpkin, tomato, cauliflower, cabbage, green peas, french beans, carrots, mushrooms etc.
2. Chop the vegetables into medium size pieces/cubes.
3. Place 2 cups of water in a pot on flame.
4. Add these vegetables along with one maggie magic cube(optional).
5. If you do not use maggie magic cube, simply add salt.
6. Once the mixture starts boiling, add 3 crushed cloves of garlic and one inch crushed ginger.
7. Let the mixture boil for 10-12 min.
8. Take it off the flame and strain using strainer.
9. The clear water mixture what you get is your veg stock.

For chicken stock:
1. Marinate 5-6 medium chicken pieces(boneless/ with bones) with ginger-garlic paste and salt.
2. Place 2-3 cups of water on flame.
3. Add the chicken pieces.
4. Let it boil for 15min or until the chicken is cooked properly. Alternately, you may also pressure cook it for about 10 min.
5. Once the chicken is cooked, strain the water mixture and your chicken stock is ready.
6. Do not discard the chicken pieces, you may use it for salads or in chicken fried rice or in soups.

1 cup of veg stock
1 cup of tomato puree
3 tbsp tomato ketchup
4 tbsp chopped mushrooms(optional)
2 tbsp chopped french beans(optional)
1 tbsp vinegar
2 tbsp soya sauce
2 tbsp chopped garlic
2 tbsp chopped ginger
1 tbsp chopped chilies
2 tbsp chopped red onion
2 tsp black pepper powder
2 tsp Tobasco Chili sauce or 1 tsp Red Chili powder
1 tbsp corn flour + water paste
Salt
Sugar
Green spring onion for garnishing

Preparation:

1. Heat oil in a wok.
2. Add chopped garlic, ginger and green chilies.
3. Add black pepper powder and chopped onion and saute for 1 min.
4. Add tomato ketchup and vinegar.
5. Add tomato pure and cook for 2 min.
6. Add veg stock and let the mixture boil.
7. Add soya sauce and tobasco sauce. 
8. Add corn flour paste to  thicken it.
9. Taste and check if salt is require. 
10. Add little sugar as per your taste. 
11. Garnish with spring onion and serve hot.

Tip: We can also add chicken to this soup to make it Chinese Chicken Tomato Soup. Follow the following steps:

1. Use chicken stock instead of veg. Shred the boiled chicken pieces used for making stock and keep aside.

2. After the mixture boils, before adding corn flour paste, add shredded chicken pieces.

3. Your chicken tomato soup is ready!