Pork Wontons

[deeaimond]

crazaycanuk,

I'm assuming u'll need to go to an asian grocer to get the wonton wrappers anyways right?, so use the chance to pick up some other essential chinese cooking ingredients (can be used for multitude of other things, keep forever)
- sesame oil (make sure its pure sesame and not 'sesame flavoured oil)
- light soy sauce (buy a chinese brand, the goya and japanese brands taste different...)

real wontons are very simple. the complicated ones have more ingredients, are larger and called water dumplings.

wonton filling (i'm approximating for you, these are the proportions)

1/2 lb ground pork
2tblsps light soy sauce
1tsp sesame oil
1/2 tsp granulated sugar (can be any kind, white brown raw etc)
2tblsps chopped spring onion (scallions) (Whole thing, white part and green part, waste not want not)

the important part is to make sure when you mix it up stir it vigorously until it looks like a paste and is not lumpy.

then you can wrap a 1/2 tsp of the mixture in each wrapper (thats why u need like... 100 hahha)

place on a tray/sheetpan, cover with cling wrap until ready to cook. (don't pile into a bowl. they will all melt and clump together as the uncooked skins dissolve)

to cook just boil some salted water and drop them in one by one. they are ready when they rise to the top.

For broth, I just use a chicken stock cube with some added mustard greens for crunch and sweetness. 2 drops of sesame oil can't hurt either. oh and some more chopped scallions

[madscot13]

maybe because I was eating a hundred a week for a couple weeks but I started adding ginger to the filling and then ginger to the broth. I also like to add green onions and cilantro to the broth.

[crazycanuck]

Dee-I found some won ton wrappers on the weekend . I stocked up on sesame oil a few weeks ago so i'm ok there too!

Thanks again for your recipe

[deeaimond]

maybe because I was eating a hundred a week for a couple weeks but I started adding ginger to the filling and then ginger to the broth. I also like to add green onions and cilantro to the broth.

oh yeah, a little grated fresh ginger is good too! not the dried powdered stuff.. that tastes different...

DEe

CrazyCanuck, u're most welcome. Now I feel like i should make some wontons too!!

[crazycanuck]

What did i do wrong? My wontons fell apart when i boiled them & the soup didn't really taste like much of anything.

?

[deeaimond]

boiling and falling apart
- might be your mixture was too damp and made the wonton skins break open.
- air in the wontons also cause them to burst
- water boiling too hard (like a constant rolling boil) also damage the skins
- too much filling in the wontons
- meat mixture not well mixed, too airy and broken up...

as for the broth... maybe not enough bullion cube? use more...
also might want to cook wontons in salted water.

really hard to tell you what went wrong exactly.. guess its not so easy after all.. sorry..

Do u have any ideas as to where it might have gone wrong?

D

[crazycanuck]

Hmm..too much filling perhaps

I'll try again as the won ton wrappers expire next week!

[deeaimond]

oh, did u seal the part with the meat with a little water?

Hmm..too much filling perhaps

I'll try again as the won ton wrappers expire next week!