Prawn Wonton Soup. To make the soup, heat the chicken stock in a pan over medium heat. Working with a few wrappers at a time, keeping remaining covered with a tea towel, place heaped teaspoonfuls of prawn mixture in the centre of each, dampen edges with a little water, then fold over to form a rectangle and press edges to push out any air and seal. Pork & prawn wonton soup recipe.
Learn the best and most authentic ways to make this classic Chinese soup at home with my step-by-step picture guide. Wonton soup is a traditional Chinese soup that's made with broth, vegetables, and wontons (small steamed dumplings) that are usually filled with minced pork and/or shrimp—but some recipes also use ground turkey, chicken, and added vegetables. Place about one teaspoon of the filling at the center of each wonton skin. You can have Prawn Wonton Soup using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Prawn Wonton Soup
- You need of Frozen (or Fresh) Prawns.
- It's of Wonton Wrappers (*25 to 30 sheets).
- You need of Spring Onions *finely chopped.
- You need of small piece Ginger *grated.
- It's of Shiitake Mushrooms *finely chopped.
- It's of Egg White.
- You need of Salt.
- Prepare of White Pepper.
- Prepare of Potato Starch.
- Prepare of <Soup>.
- Prepare of Dashi Stock *can be replaced by Chicken or Vegetable stock.
- It's of Salt.
- Prepare of Soy Sauce.
If you are interested in Sichuan style red oil wonton soup, check here Spicy wonton soup. Firstly, we need to make the shrimp filling. In a large bowl, mix minced pork (you can also add chicken)and shrimp with green onions, grated ginger, coriander, light soy sauce, egg white, sesame oil and salt. Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil.
Prawn Wonton Soup step by step
- 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..
Make wontons, see below for instructions. Use Shrimp and Pork for the Filling. My family always loves the combination of pork and shrimp for their wontons and I agree. Place a heaped teaspoon of prawn mixture in the centre of each wonton wrapper. Brush edges with a little water.