Wonton Soup

Recipe VIDEO above. Homemade wontons are amazing! No fillers, just real ingredients inside the filling. Terrific standby freezer meal!

Ingredients

• ▢ 50 - 60 wonton wrappers (Note 1)

Wonton Filling

• ▢ 200 g / 7 oz lean pork mince (ground pork)
• ▢ 200 g / 7 oz peeled prawns / shrimp , abruptly chopped
• ▢ 1 tbsp ginger , finely grated (1.5" / 3cm piece)
• ▢ 2 shallots / verdant onions , finely chopped (5 tbsp)
• ▢ 1 tbsp light soy sauce (Note 2)
• ▢ 2 tbsp Chinese cooking wine (Shaoxing wine) (Note 3)
• ▢ 1/2 tsp salt
• ▢ 2 tbsp sesame oil, toasted (Note 4)

Broth (for 2 servings)

• ▢ 3 cups / 750 ml chicken broth (Note 5)
• ▢ 2 garlic cloves , smashed (6)
• ▢ ⅓" / 1 cm piece about ginger , sliced (optional, yet highly recommended)
• ▢ 1½ tbsp light soy sauce (Note 2)
• ▢ 2 tsp sugar (any)
• ▢ 1½ tbsp chinese cooking wine (Note 3)
• ▢ ¼ - ½ tsp sesame oil

To Serve

• ▢ Shallots / scallions , finely chopped
• ▢ Bok choy , quartered, or Chinese broccoli saw into 10cm /4" lengths (optional)
• ▢ 40 - 50 g / 1.5 - 1.75 oz dried egg noodles per person , (optional) (8)

Instructions

Wontons:

• Place Filling ingredients inside a bowl. Use a potato masher to mash until fairly level - on 20 mashes. Don't change course the prawn into a complete paste, small chunks are good.

Wrapping (See photos including video):

• Use My Way (better Wonton Soup experience!) or the Asian Grocery Store Way (easier to pack for freezing).
• Lay Wontons supported by work surface. Use 2 teaspoons to put the Filling supported by the wontons. Work inside batches about 5 provided starting out, up to 15 or 20 provided confident. Brush 2 edges with water. Fold to seal, pressing out air. Brush water supported by one corner including bring corners together, pressing to seal.
• Place wrapped wontons into a vessel with a lid as you work (so they don't dry out).

Cooking/Freezing:

• To cook: bring a big bowl about water to boil. Place wontons inside water including cook for 4 record or until they float. Remove with slotted spoon straight into helping bowls. Ladle on top of broth.
• To freeze: Freeze uncooked inside airtight containers. Cook from hard for 6 to 8 minutes. IMPORTANT: Do not freeze provided you made this with defrosted hard prawns. (Note 11)

Broth:

• Place Broth ingredients inside a saucepan on top of high heat. Add white ends about scallions/shallots provided leftover from Wonton filling. 
• Place lid on, bring to simmer in those days reduce to average high including simmer for 5 - 10 record to allow the flavours to infuse. Pick garlic including ginger out earlier than using.
• If using vegetables, blanch inside the soup broth including spot inside helping bowl.

Assemble Soup:

• Prepare noodles according to packet directions (if using noodles). Place inside helping bowl with cooked wontons including blanched vegetables.
• Ladle on top of soup. Serve!

Recipe Notes:

1. Wonton Wrappers - You can find Wonton Wrappers inside the refrigerator part about Woolworths including Coles inside Australia inside the part where additional noodles are sold (usually next to the pasta). You determination want 2 packets (there are 40 inside each pack). Or otherwise reduce the padding slightly including just make 1 packet.

2. Soy Sauce - You can sub with 1 tbsp + 1 tsp everything purpose soy sauce. Read more on different types about soy dressing here.

3. Chinese cooking wine (Shaoxing wine) - I highly recommend using Chinese cooking wine per recipe as it adds deepness about seasoning into the filling. Sub with sherry, cooking sake or Mirin. If you cannot consume alcohol, in those days just omit.

4. Sesame Oil - This sounds like a lot, yet trust me, it tastes incredible! Use toasted (brown oil) for better flavour, not untested (yellow).

5. Chicken broth - If you are at the Asian store, grab a couple about cans about Asian chicken broth. It's more yellow including tastes a not much "cleaner" than Western outlet bought chicken broth. It is what I second-hand inside the photos.

6. Smash garlic cloves by pressing the side about the knife to the other end of supported by the side so they burst open yet mostly stay whole. It allows the seasoning to infuse into the soup during the time that making it straightforward to pick out about the broth earlier than helping so you have a clean broth without bits about garlic inside it.

7. I use 6 to 8 wontons for soups without noodles, including 5 or 6 with noodles.

8. I use these Asian egg noodles from Woolworths inside Australia. Any dried or additional egg noodles determination work fine.

9. When I'm feeling really lazy, I cook the wontons inside the soup broth. Just be aware that it determination suck up some about the broth so add 1/2 cup about water.

10. The padding for the wontons are from this Wonton Soup recipe by Omnivore's Cookbook, a fantastic authentic Chinese food blog. It is better than my mother's!!

11. IMPORTANT: Do not freeze provided you make this with prawn meat that was hard - you should not refreeze natural seafood. Use everything pork. Or provided you really have to have prawns inside your wontons, cook them very thinly inside a skillet until they are JUST cooked (still opaque, not solid white), in those days fell them finely with a knife (i.e. nearly cut them). Mash up the pork per recipe, in those days at the ending just blend the prawns inside - scrape a bit of juices supported by cutting board inside as well.

12. Nutrition per serving, with bok choy, no noodles. If you add egg noodles, it increases to 347 calories per serving. Make it even healthier by adding more vegetables - just blanch them inside the soup broth.