Hot And Sour Salmon Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 liters chicken stock
1 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and finely sliced
600 g fresh salmon, skinned,de-boned,sliced in 1 cm strips
4 baby bok choy, well washed,trimmed
2 small red chilies, finely sliced
3 tablespoons light soy sauce
1 -2 tablespoon sugar
3 -4 limes, juice of
1/2 cup roughly torn coriander leaves

Preparation

Place the stock and ginger in a large saucepan, bring to the boil, lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
Strain to remove the ginger; discard.
Return stock to the pan, add salmon strips, bok choy and chilli to the stock, simmer gently for 2 minutes.
Lastly add soy sauce, and sugar and lime juice to taste and to achieve a balanced hot, sweet, salty, sour flavour.
Ladle into serving bowls and garnish with torn coriander leaves.