Chinese Shiitake Mushroom Soup

We love the contrasting flavors in Chinese cuisine.

This Shiitake mushroom soup recipe is a great example as it includes the mushrooms, onions, ginger, garlic, soy sauce and Silan (date honey).

It is a flexible recipe and if you wish you can add cabbage, pieces of broccoli or even an egg (you add them raw to the soup and stir. We like to add a bit of miso. If you like it spicy, try adding some cayenne pepper.)

Shiitake Mushroom Soup

Ingredients:

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• 3/4 cup chopped fresh shiitake mushrooms
• 1 chopped white onion
• 2 tender sliced garlic cloves
• 1 tbsp grated fresh ginger
• 1/2 cup chopped green onion
• 2 grated carrots
• 2 bok choy leaves, chopped
• 3 tablespoons Galilee Green Olive Oil – GGOO (for stir frying)
• Black pepper and salt to taste
• 2 cups of vegetable (or chicken) broth
• splash of soy sauce
• 1 tsp of Silan (date syrup)

Directions:

1. Wash the vegetables well, drain them.
2. Finely chop the onion and cut the Shiitake mushrooms into thin slices.
3. Heat a splash of GGOO in soup pot. Add the chopped onions and when they start to become translucent, add the sliced mushrooms. Add the salt and pepper and cook for about 10 minutes.
4. Add the ginger, garlic, bok choy and carrots to the pot and cook another 10 minutes.
5. Add the vegetable broth and the soy sauce and silan and bring to a boil.
6. Turn of heat and let stand for 5 minutes before serving.