Description
Crab and Corn Egg Drop Soup one of the soup dishes that reminds me of childhood, it was one of the popular ready-made soups in the Philippines made by Knorr during the 80′s where I guess everyone in the same age bracket as me remembers that guy on the commercial saying “Just add one egg”.
Ingredients
Scale
- 5 cups water
- 1 1/2 cups crab meat from fresh crabs
- 2 1/2 cups corn kernel from fresh sweet corn, reserve the cob
- 3 heaping tbsp tapioca starch
- sesame oil
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 stalks spring onions, chopped / separate white and green parts
- white pepper
- salt
- oil
Instructions
- In a pot add oil and lightly sauté garlic and white part of spring onions.
- Add corn and stir for 2 minutes.
- Add water and the cob, bring to a boil then simmer for 30-40 minutes in low heat. Simmering longer would extract the taste from the corn.
- Add crab meat and simmer for 15 more minutes in low heat.
- In a small bowl combine tapioca starch with 1/2 cup cold water.
- Slowly add egg on hot soup in a steady thin stream while slowly mixing the soup.
- Add the tapioca starch mixture, simmer until thick.
- Season with sesame oil, white pepper and salt.
- Turn heat off, serve then garnish with chopped green spring onions.