Family Recipe Wontons from Scratch | Maxis Kitchen
Family Recipe Wontons from Scratch
60 mins prepServes 4
Celebrate Lunar New Year by making wontons from scratch with this family recipe. This recipe includes instructions for preparing the wonton filling and folding the wontons, as well as a quick dipping sauce. The total preparation and cooking time is 1 hour 15 minutes.
1. Mince ginger and dice water chestnuts, scallion, and shitake mushrooms small. Add all to a large bowl with the ground pork.
2. Add egg, soy sauce, salt, sugar, sesame oil, sherry, black pepper, and cornstarch mixed with 1/4 cup water to the meat mixture.
3. Stir with your hand or a spoon so that all ingredients are evenly distributed.
4. Place a spoonful of the meat mixture (use less meat for easier folding) in the corner of a wonton skin (skin should be making a diamond shape). Roll the corner up and over the meat mixture about half way, then wet the sides of the wonton on the left and right of the meat. Fold in the sides and flap one under the other; the water will act as an adhesive.
5. Place wontons in boiling water; when they float they are done! Remove the wontons from the water with a handheld mesh strainer.
6. Mix together the ingredients for the sauce: 1/4 cup Soy Sauce, 2 Tbs Rice Vinegar, 4 tsp Sesame Oil, 1 tsp Sesame Seeds, 2 tsp diced Scallion, and 2 tsp minced Ginger. Pour half of the sauce over the cooked dumplings and serve half on the side. Sprinkle with chopped scallion, ginger, and sesame seeds on top.
