Ingredients

• 1 cup - raw chicken meat, cut into thin strips
• 1 cup - mushrooms sliced
• 1/2 cup - carrots, sliced
• 1 cup - sliced celery
• 1/2 cup - sliced spinach
• 8 cups - chicken stock
• 1 tsp - ajinomotto
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• 2 tbsps - cornstarch
• salt and pepper to taste
• sesame oil

How to Make Mandarin Soup

• Heat 4 tbsps. of sesame oil and fry the chicken to a red colour. Add all the vegetables with the exception of spinach, fry for a few minutes then cover tightly and cook till the vegetables are almost done.
• Pour in the stock and add spinach and ajinomotto and cook for 5 mins.
• Then add cornstarch made into a thin paste with little water.
• Cook till soup turns little thick, mix in the egg and stir quickly for 1 minute.
• Remove from fire and season it with salt and pepper.
• Serve piping hot.