Pork Wontons

[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.

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[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!

[shootingstar]

We always found using a small bit of egg white is helpful 'cause it's sticky to close the wonton.
I can see that deeiamond has real wonton making experience, based on her list of tips. I had a terrible habit of just helping my mother fill and close the wontons, then run off to watch tv, etc.

[deeaimond]

hahha... egg whites are unnecessary unless u're deep frying them. and yes. lots of cooking experience because i've been cooking independantly since I was 10 once we stopped having a domestic helper. My parents worked full time and I had to make sure there was dinner for siblings and myself, and parents when they got back from work. I figured out alot of things the hard way hhehhe..