Hot And Sour Soup - Home Cooked Recipe 23

I mentioned in an earlier post I wrote about P.F. Changs that I was going to copy their Hot And Sour soup.  I found a recipe online that seemed to be close, so I altered it slightly, and that is our recipe for this week.
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Hot And Sour Soup

Ingredients

• 6 ounces of chicken breast, thinly sliced
• 4 cups of chicken stock
• 1 cup soy sauce
• 1 tsp pepper
• 6 ounces bamboo shoots, julienned
• 6 ounces of mushrooms, julienned
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 eggs beaten
• 4 ounces rice vinegar
• *6 ounces tofu, optional (I did NOT include tofu)

Directions:
Cook chicken through and set aside.  Bring chicken stock to a boil, add soy sauce, pepper, bamboo, mushrooms, and chicken.  Let cook for 3 minutes. Combine water and cornstarch in sepearte bowl.  Add a little at a time to soup.  Stir soup until thick.  Add eggs and stir while cooking.  Turn off heat.  Add vinegar (you would also add tofu at this point if you were including it).  Spoon in to bowls.
Enjoy!