{"id":2374,"date":"2018-06-13T07:17:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T11:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.236.198.25\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2024-12-26T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:09:01","slug":"wonton-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omnivorescookbook.com\/wonton-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonton Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Classic Chinese-restaurant style wonton soup features pork and shrimp wontons served in a hearty chicken soup. An authentic Chinese street vendor soup base is also included in the recipe! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A bowl of wonton soup is so hearty that I can eat one at any time of day and in any season of the year. Even though the dish looks intimidating to make, it is surprisingly easy once you try it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many ways to prepare wonton filling and soup. For example, you make chicken wonton soup<\/a>, beef wonton soup<\/a>, watercress wonton<\/a>, or add noodles into the soup to make Cantonese-style wonton noodle soup<\/a>. You can even use hot sauce as a base to make Sichuan-style spicy wontons<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this post, I want to introduce the most basic and classic version – it uses ground pork, shrimp, ginger, green onion, soy sauce, and a drizzle of sesame oil to make a rich and flavorful filling that tastes so, so good.<\/strong> This is how we Northerners make wontons. We like to add plenty of aromatics and seasonings to make the filling very rich, so the wontons taste great, even by themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to make wonton soup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. Prepare the filling (with and without a food processor)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In a Chinese kitchen, home cooks always hand-chop all the ingredients. This is because most Chinese families do not own a food processor. Plus, many people enjoy the texture that is made by hand chopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to make the prep easier, you can totally use a food processor or a blender to mix the filling. In this case, you can simply slice the ginger and green onion into coarse pieces. Add all the filling ingredients except the shrimp into a food processor. Process until it forms a silky paste. Then add the shrimp and blend until the shrimp are finely chopped, but do not turn into a paste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. Wrap the wontons<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The simplest way is to roll up the filling in a wrapper and press both loose ends together to lock in the filling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a good chance that the wrapper will not be sticky enough and you\u2019ll have trouble pressing the ends together. To solve this problem, you can brush some water onto the edges of the wrapper with your finger, so the wrapper will stay together while cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a short video I made to show you four ways to wrap wontons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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