Asian soup with chow mein noodles

August 4, 2009

I made soup for lunch today and the challenge is whether or not I can ever replicate it.  Hey, I don’t even remember two hours later what I did but it was good so I need to make some notes here to trigger the ol’ memory.

I took 1/2 onion and 2 or 3 stalks of celery and sauteed them in olive oil.  Then I added 3-4 oz of sliced mushrooms.  Of course I was interupted so I turned off the heat and when I came back to it, I added 3 cups of broth and and 2 cups of water.  I grated all the ginger I had left – maybe it ended up being 1 teaspoon?  Added that.  Chopped up 3 stalks of bok choy, leaves included, and threw in some snap peas and 2 chopped plum tomatoes.  I seasoned it with 1 tsp of salt and some szechuan spice mix.  As the soup was simmering, I cooked some chow mein noodles (separately) and added some of them to the soup pot.

All in all, very succesful and I now have leftovers – both soup and noodles.

Oh, I also used 2 small green onions!

Filed under: Recipes - Soups

Tags: bok choy, chow mein, easy, ginger, noodles, plu tomatoes, snap peas