Prawn Wonton Soup. These wontons are filled with a juicy pork and prawn / shrimp filling and will Wonton soup. If you've ever had store bought frozen wontons or wontons from a good value. Wonton prawn dumpling is also known as "Sui Jiao" or "Jiao Zi" in Chinese.
Wonton soup can be enjoyed as a side dish or it can also be served with some egg noodles as a main dish. Wrappers which are made out of wheat, egg and water are used to wrap the meat and prawn. To make prawn wontons, put prawn, ginger, water chestnut, garlic, coriander and oil in a small food processor. You can cook Prawn Wonton Soup using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Prawn Wonton Soup
- Prepare 200-250 g of Frozen (or Fresh) Prawns.
- You need 1 pack of Wonton Wrappers (*25 to 30 sheets).
- It’s 2-3 of Spring Onions *finely chopped.
- Prepare 1 of small piece Ginger *grated.
- Prepare 3-4 of Shiitake Mushrooms *finely chopped.
- Prepare 1/2 of Egg White.
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of Salt.
- Prepare of White Pepper.
- You need 1 tablespoon of Potato Starch.
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- It’s 4 cups of Dashi Stock *can be replaced by Chicken or Vegetable stock.
- It’s 1 teaspoon of Salt.
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of Soy Sauce.
Process until mixture is finely chopped. Lay wrappers on a flat surface. Check our our Prawn Wonton Noodle Soup recipe. Once you've got the hang of folding up the wontons it's a doddle.
Prawn Wonton Soup instructions
- Place Dashi Stock in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add Salt & Soy Sauce and bring to a simmer. If you use Chicken or Vegetable stock, alter the amount of Salt & Soy Sauce. I recommend to add some Ginger slices and Spring Onion to the stock to add Asian flavour. (Remove them before cooking wontons.).
- Mince the thawed Prawns by chopping up, add Spring Onion, Ginger, Shiitake, Egg White and Potato Starch, then Salt & Pepper and mix well..
- Place 1 wonton wrapper on a plate, place 1 heaped teaspoon prawn mixture in centre. Wet edges with water and fold up to form a triangle and pinch to enclose. For soup, attach both bottom corner edges together. Repeat with remaining mixture and wrappers..
- Add wontons to simmering soup. Cook, uncovered, for 5 minutes or until wontons float to the surface and cooked through..
- Alternatively, you can deep fry the triangular wontons..
A comprehensive guide to making wonton and wonton soup. The recipe is the authentic wonton noodels of Hong Kong. (And a note on the Malaysian wonton mee). Sounds pretty fancy, but with a couple of cheat ingredients. There are great quality premade wontons available in the Asian freezer section in the grocery store, check them out. Wonton wrappers are stuffed with a mixture of cooked pork and prawns, seasoned with soy sauce and fresh ginger and gently simmered in chicken stock.