Easy West Lake Beef Soup

Hi everyone, welcome to Cooking With Lin Today I'm going to share with you my take on Westlake Beef Soup Did you ever have it? And this is originated from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in China Of course it's named after the famous Westlake in Hangzhou And in Chinese 西湖牛肉羹 Let me show you the simple ingredients I have a pack of ground beef And I'm going to use about a quarter of a pound This is just over a pound, right? Just about that Of course you can get a piece of beef and chop it up finely Place it aside And we just need to season with a little bit of salt White pepper powder Break it Okay, we'll set this aside And I have two eggs I'm going to separate the egg white from the yolk Save the yolk I soak two shiitake mushrooms And you can use, of course, fresh shiitake mushrooms Or other mushrooms, like button mushrooms We just need to dice it That's diced Mushrooms And cilantro So you need a lot of cilantro for this soup As we always say, never say never I didn't like, I couldn't eat cilantro But now I don't mind Yeah, it's really great flavor So we just need to chop it finely That's chopped cilantro We also need one green onion Chop it finely Green onion And a piece of ginger Just half of this To start our soup Give it a smack And we also need celery because it's a very thick soup So we just need either potato starch or corn starch About a tablespoon And some water Mix well Now we're ready to cook So first we're going to give the beef a quick boil This way we can get rid of the impurities And the soup will be more clear About a minute, let's take out our beef First we're going to boil 4 cups of chicken stock You can also use beef stock And add a piece of ginger And mushroom Bring this to boil Now the soup is boiling Let it cook about 5 minutes After 5 minutes we add beef Cook about a minute Now we'll thicken the soup with the celery Add in a few tons Getting thicker Right? Yep Looking good Now we're going to turn the heat to medium low Add our egg whites Make sure you beat it again Let's take out the ginger Job's done Thank you ginger And let me just taste Perfect A little bit of salt Because our chicken stock already has some salt And white pepper powder Smells great, looks good too Now our cilantro Should be enough, right? Green onion Now we just drizzle some sesame oil And our soup is ready Looking good Looks awesome, smells great Just enough thickness, right? Beautiful Are you ready to try? I am ready to try Cheers Oh, this is delicious Very aromatic from cilantro I need to get a credit for eating cilantro I didn't like cilantro, I couldn't eat cilantro now I'm accepting cilantro But for those of you who still don't want cilantro You can just substitute with green onions Wow, this is great Slow down Delicious, right? Great consistency Smooth That's actually one of the characteristics of this soup Very smooth Yum And still very light This is so good So warm, of course soup always Perfect Please leave me a comment below If you ever had Westlake beef soup And please try to make it All the ingredients you can find easily, right? No excuse not to make it And as I said, you can replace cilantro with green onions If you don't like cilantro If you like this video, please give us thumbs up Share and subscribe for more simple recipes Thank you so much for watching See you next time