Crab & Sweetcorn Soup - Penguin Books Australia

Ingredients

• 1.2 litres good chicken stock
• 6 thin slices of root ginger
• 3 bunches of spring onions, roughly chopped
• ½ tsp whole white peppercorns
• 2 fresh sweetcorn cobs
• 225g fresh white crab meat
• 5 tsp cornflour
• 1 tsp very finely chopped root ginger
• 2 spring onions, cut into 2.5cm pieces and finely shredded lengthways
• 1 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tbsp Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
• 1 egg white, lightly beaten
• Salt and black pepper