Since we've been living in Switzerland I haven't made wontons very much but when we sat down last week to make them, my eldest daughter really enjoyed wrapping them up (and eating them). It's also a relatively quick meal to make so hopefully I'll get around to making them more often.
The recipe below is for about 30 wontons. Firstly you need to marinade around 150 grams of minced pork with a few teaspoons of soy sauce, a sprinkle of sugar, a teaspoon of oyster sauce and cornflour and a shake of white pepper. Marinade the meat for at least 20 minutes. There are other things you can add to the meat also. I like putting in a few stems of finely chopped up Chinese vegetables such as pak choi or you could also include some shitake mushrooms. A traditional wonton has prawns although I don't always include these.
The next step is to fold the meat into the wrappers. You can find wrappers at all Asian food stores normally in the fridge section. Get your wrappers, the meat and a little bowl of water and you're ready to fold! Put one heaped teaspoon of the meat into the centre of the wrapper. You then dip a finger intp the bowl of water and run this finger along two edges of the wrapper to moisten. Then fold up the edges to create a triangle and pinch the edges to seal. You can either leave them like this or fold again to make prettier shapes. Here's a great simple video to show you how it's done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wUiwMOa-BI
Bring a pot of water to the boil and carefully place the wontons into this. Give them a little stir to prevent them from sticking together and after a few minutes they will float to the top which means they're ready. In another pot, heat up 3 cups of chicken stock and you could add some chinese vegetables and noodles to this if you want to bulk up the meal. Take a bowl, add in a few of the wontons and spoon over the chicken soup. Garnish with some chopped spring onion and coriander if you wish and enjoy!
YUM!!!!!!
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