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No Water Added: Shanghai-Style Tomato Soup with Beef
A simple, comforting soup with pieces of beef, tomatoes, cabbage, and vegetables. Because it is cooked without adding water, the vegetables retain their natural flavor, and the soup becomes sweet, savory, and intensely concentrated.
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Ingredients
- 1 lb boneless beef shoulder
- 1 can whole canned tomatoes
- 1 carrot
- 2 fresh tomatoes
- 1 small onion
- 2 stalks celery stalks
- 1 head cabbage
- 2 small potatoes
- 1 tbsp butter
- salt (to taste)
- pepper (to taste)
Steps
- 1
Prepare the beef, canned tomatoes, carrot, fresh tomatoes, onion, celery, cabbage, and potatoes, along with the butter, salt, and pepper. The source does not provide detailed instructions for cutting the ingredients or the order in which to add them.
- 2
Do not add water. The soup should cook solely in the natural moisture from the vegetables and tomatoes.
- 3
Cook the ingredients until everything has reduced and a sweet, savory, deeply concentrated soup has formed. The source does not provide a temperature, exact cooking time, or detailed technique.
- 4
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Notes
The source contains a complete ingredient list and the principle of cooking without water, but does not provide detailed preparation instructions, temperature, exact cooking time, or the order in which to add the ingredients. The amount of beef is given as a range of 1–2 lb; nutritional values and gram measurements were calculated using the lower end of the range.
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