VEGETABLE SWEET AND SOUR SOUP

Ingredients:
Vegetable broth - 5 cups
Mushroom – 4-5
Carrot – 1 medium
Green bell pepper – ½
Red bell pepper – ½
Tomato – 1 small
Cabbage – 3tbsp
Chopped Ginger – 1 tbsp
Chopped Garlic – 1tbsp
Soy sauce* – 2tbsp
Chili sauce – 1tsp
Salt – ½ tsp
Sugar – ½ tsp
Red chili flakes – 1tsp
Corn flour – 3tbsp
Green onion – 3-4, take only the green part
Fried noodles for serving

Cooking Procedure:
Cut all the vegetables in small pieces.
In a big pot, heat some oil. Add ginger garlic paste and fry for 2 mins. Then add all the chopped vegetables, except the green onions and sauté 2 mins without adding any salt. Then add soy sauce, chili sauce, salt, sugar and red chili flakes. Stir well and then add vegetable broth. Bring it to a boil and let simmer for 5-10 mins. Dissolve the corn flour in half cup of water. Add it to the soup and stir continuously. After adding corn flour, the soup will start to thicken. You can add more/less corn flour for desired thickness of the soup. Let it simmer for 5 more mins. Finally garnish with chopped green onions and serve hot with fried noodles**.

* I used Chings Dark Soy sauce; I bought it from the Indian store.
** I used La Choy chow mein noodles.