Homemade Wonton Soup
Monday, May 7th, 2007
I recently made a homemade wonton soup. All photos are “clickable.” Ingredients include:
- ginger (Fresh)
- chicken breast
- ground pork
- hoisin sauce
- shallot
- portobello mushroom
- salt, pepper
- sesame oil
- egg white
- shaosing wine
Combine all the ingredients into a food processor. Chunk up the chicken into small pieces, and pre-grate your ginger. I eye-balled, guessed at all the measurements. Pulse until chunky and well-combined, but not smooth. The meat will be a light brown color due to the hoisin sauce.
Use wonton skins. Fill each wonton with the filling, and pinch-together to make the classic small wonton shape.
With good-quality stock, simmer chicken soup and add two cloves garlic, crushed. These will be removed. Once a light boil is achieved, add the fresh wontons. Add soy sauce to taste, and mushrooms, if desired.
Finish the soup in 10 minutes time with fresh scallions.
For this dinner, I also prepared baby-back pork ribs using an augmented store-bought, local-made BBQ sauce. I added brown sugar and oil to the sauce. I marinated the ribs for 5 hours before roasting in a 350 degree oven. Garnish with more scallions.
