Hot & sour soup

Peel the garlic and deseed the chillies, then roughly chop and place into a pestle and mortar.
Bash with a pinch of salt to a rough paste. Peel, finely chop and add the ginger, then bash until broken down and combined....

Ingredients

• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1-2 fresh red chillies
• sea salt
• freshly ground white pepper
• 1 thumb-sized piece of ginger
• 250 g shitake mushrooms , cleaned
• 225 g bamboo shoots , drained
• groundnut oil , or vegetable oil
• low-salt soy sauce
• rice wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon runny honey
• 1.5 litres hot organic vegetable stock
• 150 g firm tofu
• 2 spring onions
• ½ bunch of chives
• 1 large free-range egg

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