Chinese Dumpling - Wonton

Chinese Dumplings are of many different types, taste, shapes and even colours.  The most common of all is Wonton, which can either be cooked in soup or deep-fried.  This home-made recipe of mine is simple to prepare, and with ready purchased wonton skin it really has made easy the lives of many home-cooks ~ CHEERS ~

What you need:
1 packet of ready made wonton skin
1 tsp of light soy sauce, to seal the skin

Filling:
1/2 kg of minced pork
2 stalks spring onion (green part only), chopped
1 egg
1/2 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp of ground pepper
1  1/2 tbsp of light soy sauce

What to do next?

1. In a big bowl mix all the filling ingredients together till well combined.  Cover the bowl and leave in the fridge, take out only when you intend to wrap.
2. For the wrapping, place a piece of wonton skin on your left palm (if you are a right hander, or else vice versa), use a spoon to scoop about 1 tsp of filling and put in the middle of the skin, then wrap according to your favourite style, seal with some light soy sauce and put on a plate, till all is done. 

Tip: If you are not cooking it immediately place a piece of damp cloth over the wrapped wonton to keep it moist as the wonton skin gets dry easily.

To deep-fry:

1. Heat enough oil in a deep wok for deep-frying.  When the oil is hot enough (not too hot as the wonton skin will gets brown easily), slowly put in about 8 wonton at a time (depending on the size of your wok) and flip over during the frying process to ensure that the wonton are cooked all through.
2. Drain and put on absorbent paper to remove the extra oil and serve hot on a platter with either tomato sauce or chili sauce.

What you need to cook wonton in soup:

1. Prepare broth for the soup, either use pork ribs, pig bones or chicken bones. 
2. Fried shallot and garlic to drizzle over the wonton soup.
3. Some leafy vegetables of your choice to serve together with the soup.
4. Grounded pepper (to sprinkle over the soup)
5. Spring onions (optional)

Few simple steps to cook:

1. Heat up the broth in a pot, when starts to boil season with salt and msg and taste to get the desired seasoning.
2. When the broth comes to a big boil, reduce the heat to medium and slowly put in the wrapped wonton, 
3. When the wonton floats to the surface it means that its cooked, add in the green vegetable, boil for another few seconds and off the heat.
4. Scoop the wonton into individual bowls, sprinkle some grounded pepper, put some fried shallots and garlic on the top and it's ready to serve!

Note:  I will be sharing in my next write-up on the few simple steps to fry crispy shallots and garlic, an item which is a must-have in our kitchen if we are a stay home wife, mum and grand mum, see you then.....