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Best Three Ingredient Recipe, Go! (lemmy.today)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone
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Creativity is welcome, weird cravings are celebrated, hangover cures are honored.

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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This is a surprisingly simple, yet tasty, soup.

  1. Peanut oil or sesame oil or some other such strongly-flavoured oil. 15ml
  2. Dark soy sauce or mushroom soy sauce (your choice). 5ml
  3. Finely chopped chives/spring onions. 3-5g

Put oil in small soup bowl. Put soy sauce in bowl. Put chives/whatever in bowl. Pour boiling hot water over top. Let sit about a minute. Serve.

This doesn't sound like it should work, but it does somehow.

Possible garnishment could include a sprinkle of white (not black!) pepper or a sprinkle of sesame seeds, but honestly neither is needed.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    This sounds delicious, I love onions! I bet it's great for hangovers because of all the salt!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    It is far more tasty than it has any right being. When I first heard this recipe I thought I was getting punked. But I tried it and ... yeah. It's actually really nice.

    And it's really easy to extend. A bit of minced pork. Or break in an egg and make it an egg drop soup. Jazz it up with assorted pickles or kimchi or the like. It's a strong base as well as a great standalone.

    And ... I don't get hangovers so I don't know about that role, but it would certainly hydrate well after a night of drinking, so ... probably as a cure or even a preventative?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I did some digging. There is an actual hangover remedy based on this simple soup. It involves adding one extra ingredient: just a pinch of baking soda (like maybe 0.5g of it). Apparently this turns an already good electrolyte balancer into magic.

    As I said I have never had a hangover so I can't attest to that, but someone I know who does get hung over knew about this soup and about this specific alteration. He said it doesn't change the flavour noticeably but it settles the stomach like nobody's business.

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