Wonton Soup
Author: What's-4-Chow
Recipe type: Soup
Cuisine: Chinese
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Serves: 4
Wonton soup is arguably one the most popular and well-known of all Chinese soups. It can be as simple or a complicated as you ant to make it. Here is a recipe that is somewhere in the middle, and yields great results.
Ingredients
For the Wontons
- 375g Pork (fillet / loin - most cuts are suitable - even bacon)
- 2 Cloves garlic
- 6 Generous slices of fresh ginger
- 3 Spring onions - whites only (reserve greens for soup)
- 30ml Hoisin sauce
- 15ml Oyster sauce
- 15ml Cornflour
- 48 Wonton wrappers (see recipe here)
For the Soup
- 1500ml Quality chicken stock
- 30ml Light soy sauce
- 30ml Rice wine or dry sherry
- 5ml Roasted sesame oil
- 15ml Cornflour
- 3 Spring onions - green only, cut into rounds
Instructions
For the Wontons
- Place all of the wonton ingredients in your food processor and chop until medium-fine
- Allow the filling to marinate for 2hrs in your refrigerator
- Lay out you wonton wrappers a few at a time. Place a heaped teaspoon of filling into the center of each wrapper
- Wet the edges of the wrappers using you finger dipped in water
- Fold the wrappers over, corner to corner. Wet one of the sharp corners and fold the 2 sharp corners downward to meet one another. Repeat until all of the wrappers are folded.
For the Soup
- Pour all of the soup ingredients into you wok or pot, except the cornflour and spring onion greens
- Bring the mixture to the boil
- Mix the cornflour with a little water and add this to the soup
- Add the spring onion greens to the soup
- Add the wontons to the soup and allow the to cook at a rolling boil for 4-5 minutes
- Remove from the heat and serve immediately
Notes
- Shredded Chinese cabbage, bok choy, or Chinese spinach can also be added to the soup - add these towards the end and cook until just wilted
