Thursday, May 12, 2005
Wanton soup
ingredients:
- wanton skin (square or round ones doesn't matter, can get from the slightly chilled noodle section in supermarket, ask me if u dunno)
- minced pork (the meat section, where they haf all types of meat just get 1 pack)
- 8 medium-sized peeled prawns(cut into half, cross-sectionally) (optional, if u wanna make shui jiao)
- ikan bilis (half cup)/ concentrated chicken stock (1-2 tablespoon)/chicken bones/ chicken meat (for soup flavouring)
- water 4-5 cups
- vege (caixin or xiao bai cai) ( cut them up into "edible" portions, wash and drain)
instructions (making the wanton):
- "marinate" the minced meat with light soy sauce (2 -3 teaspoon), sesame oil (1 teaspoon), " tai4 bai2 fen3"(1-2 tablespoon), pepper(shake 2 times or so) (basically, it's by trial and error for me, the portions are just a rough gauge)
- mix the meat thoroughlyusing a spoon to stir through the marinates..
- then u can wrap the wanton now!
- use around half a tablespoon-full of minced meat and put it in the centre of the wanton skin (can add your half-prawn on top of the meat)
- use some water to the surroundings of the wanton skin (like glue) to seal up ur wantons, remember to press them shut tightly.
- then they're done!
now we prepare the soup..
- boil the water in a pot big enough
- put in ur item #4 in the ingredients list
- after boiling the chicken/ikan bilis etc for around 15 min, taste the soup and add salt/ more flavouring/ pepper accordingly, if the taste is still not up to wat u want
- after the soup base is done, dump in ur wantons
- once the soup boils again dump in the vege
- when the vege is done and the wantons float up, it's done!!
- serve and eat while hot!!
the above dish needs more "agaration" than the kangkong dish, so try more times ah? but v easy one. u try with a smaller pot of soup and around 5 wantons 1st
hee.. cooked this soup with instant noodles for my dear.. the 1st meal i cooked for him.. so happy that i got it right the time i made for him.
Alternatively, u can fry the wantons that u've wrapped to make fried wantons.. it's really tasty and yummy too!!
so hungry now.. going heat up my lunch..
| posted by clouds at 11:38 AM
