Wontons

Popo's wontons

• Serves 12 (approx.)
• Normally 1kg pork for 10 people

• INCOMPLETE

Ingredients

Filling

• 1/2 kilo pork mince
• 300g fresh blue prawns
• 15g dried red shrimp (expected size of each shrimp is ~10mm)
• 4 green onions
• Handful of dried shittake mushrooms
• 2 packets of wonton wrappers (egg, pastry, 120 squares total)
• 1T coriander leaves (?)

Seasoning

• 1/2t salt
• 2t white pepper
• 1T oyster sauce (Lee Kum Kee brand)
• 1T light soy sauce
• 1t sesame oil
• 2T cornflour

Broth

• 1kg pork bones
• 1 spring onion, finely chopped

Procedure

Prepare mushrooms

1. Soak the mushrooms for 4 hours

Prepare broth

1. Pork bones in half a tureen of water
2. Add the chopped onion
3. Boil for 1 hour

Main

Not recorded. Presumably:

1. Mix filling ingredients together (dry-ish)
2. Combine seasoning ingredients (wet)
3. Add seasoning to filling, mixing well, ensuring the filling is evenly moist with the seasoning
4. Fill your wonton wrappers, each with a piece of prawn and a little of the mince-mixture
5. Boil wontons (about 8-12min per batch?)
   • You could add cabbage or something to the broth here
6. Eat the delicious wontons, served shallow-floating in some broth and whatever inoffensive greens you added in the previous step
   • Great with a little chilli sauce, soy, etc.