Chinese-Style Shrimp Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/4 cup water
3 teaspoons cornflour
4 cups fish stock or 4 cups vegetable stock
2 cups thinly sliced carrots
3 teaspoons soy sauce
250 g small green shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 cup thinly sliced shredded Chinese cabbage
2 thinly sliced shallots
1 (225 g) can sliced water chestnuts, drained
125 g snow peas, trimmed
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil

Preparation

In a small bowl, blend water smoothly with cornflour.
Set aside.
In a large pan, combine stock, carrot and soy sauce.
Bring to the boil, then simmer over a medium heat for 5 minutes.
Add shrimp, cabbage, shallots and water chestnuts to stock mixture, cook for 4 minutes.
Stir in cornflour mixtue, snow peas and sesame oil.
Cook stirring continuously, until soup boils and thickens slightly.
Ladle soup into 4 serving bowls.
Serve immediately.