Easy Homemade Wonton Soup

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Easy Homemade wonton soup is the epitome of comfort foods. These pork and shrimp wontons bathe in a warm and delicious chicken broth surrounded by your favorite leafy greens. Plus with a step-by-step photo guide on how to wrap wonton, you will be a wonton wrapping expert in no time!

Course Lunch & Dinner Recipes

Cuisine Chinese

Prep Time 50

Cook Time 20

Total Time 1 10

Servings Servings

Calories 422kcal

Author Takes Two Eggs

Ingredients

For the Broth

½ yellow onion wedge cut
5 cm piece of ginger sliced
8 cloves of garlic smashed
2 large chicken breasts
15 cups chicken stock no sodium
6 tablespoons light soy sauce
6 tablespoons Chinese cooking wine
2 teaspoons sesame oil
3 palm sugar cubes
1 tablespoon fish sauce to taste
Salt and Pepper to taste

For the Wontons

2 large shallots ground
1 lb ground pork
½ lb shrimp ground
1 teaspoon chicken bouillon powder
½ teaspoon sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
1 ½ tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon fish sauce
Wonton wrappers about 50

Instructions

Broth

Prepare the ingredients. Peel and wedge cut the onion. Peel and slice the ginger. Peel and smash the garlic. Cut chicken breasts into thirds vertically. Then slice each of the long slices into 1 cm slices horizontally.
Add the ingredients. In a large soup pot, add onion, ginger, garlic, chicken, chicken stock, light soy sauce, Chinese cooking wine, sesame oil, and palm sugar. Bring to a boil.
Remove chicken after 3 minutes of boiling. Once it hits a boil, boil for 3 minutes and then using a slotted spoon remove the chicken. Set aside.
Continue simmering then add salt, pepper, fish sauce to taste. After you take the chicken out, turn the heat to low, and simmer for 5 more minutes. Then turn off heat. Remove the ginger, garlic and onions. Add salt, pepper and fish sauce to taste.

Wontons

Prepare shallots and shrimp. Grind shallots in a food processor until mashed. Set aside in a large mixing bowl. Peel and devein shrimp. Grind shrimp in food processor until mashed. Take out and place in same bowl as shallots.
Mix in flavoring ingredients. Add ground pork, chicken bouillon powder, sugar, salt, white pepper, sesame oil, fish sauce. Mix thoroughly by hand.
Taste test: place a small teaspoon of the mixture on a plate and microwave for 15 seconds and taste to see if any adjustments need to be made.
Fold the wontons. Fold 1 teaspoon of meat mixture into a wonton. Dip your finger in lukewarm water and run your finger along the edges of the wonton wrapper. Fold in half and seal. Take the two corners of the wontons and place one on top of each other to form a little boat. Use another dab of water to seal. Continue until all the wontons are finished.
Cook the wontons. Add water to medium sauce pot and place on high heat until the water boils. Gently place wontons in pot about 10-15 at a time. Cook for about 3-4 minutes. They will begin to float to the surface when they are cooked through. Cut one open to check. Using a slotted spoon, scoop them out and place on a tray. Or if you prefer to steam them. Place them in a steamer over boiling water and steam for 10 minutes or 15 if frozen
Serve: Serve the bowl with wontons, broth, blanched veggies, sliced water chestnuts, diced green onions, chili oil and white pepper to taste.

Notes

Use a food processor to grind the shallots and shrimp. For the quickest and easiest results, use a food processor. If you don't have one you can finely mince them by hand. I like using a food processor so that the flavors in the wontons are thoroughly combined.

Before folding the wontons do a taste test: place a small teaspoon of the mixture on a plate and microwave for 15 seconds and taste to see if any adjustments need to be made.
Cook the wontons in a separate pot of water and NOT in the broth. This is important to separate the wontons from the broth. Cooking the wontons in the broth will leave an unwanted slimy residue in the broth.
Cut one of the wontons open to check if it is fully cooked. Before scooping all the wontons out of the boiling water, cut one of the wontons open to make sure it is fully cooked.
Blanch the vegetables in the broth. If you are using vegetables, blanch in the soup broth and place in serving bowl.

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