Improvised Hot and Sour Seafood Soup

 

This was totally improvised based on flavors friends have suggested. 

I have herbs leftover from hosting previous dinners (I’ll have to throw them out soon) and a lot of spices, and I have laver, shrimp, and mussels but nothing else of seafood. (I really do need to get more clams, squid, and fish for my freezer.)

• 3 cups water
• 1 shrimp bouillon
• 1 tblsp hondashi
• half a stalk of lemongrass, roughly chopped
• 1/2 galangal, sliced
• 6-8 Thai basil leaves
• 1 chipotle
• 1/4 cup lime juice
• half cup soaked laver
• 6 large shrimps, peeled and deveined
• 6 mussels
• 1 tblsp sesame oil
• 1 egg, beaten

1. Boil water with shrimp bouillon, hondashi, lemongrass, galangal, Thai basil, chipotle, and lime juice. 
2. Strain the broth and add the laver, shrimp, and mussels to cook through.
3. Stirred in some sesame oil and a beaten egg at the end.