1. The meat is not cut with a stick, but beaten with a stick. It is best to use a flat and thick wooden stick. Beat half a catty of meat into three parts. Beat each piece for about five minutes until it becomes like minced meat. That’s almost it

2. Add salt and MSG to the meat paste according to your own taste

3. Make wontons

4. Making soup dumplings or When making wontons, first fry one or two spoonfuls of scallion oil (to make scallion oil: scallions, remember to be small scallions, dice the white scallions, put oil in the pot, after the oil is hot, add the white scallions, don't fry them, usually fry them over high heat for ten seconds) It will take a few dozen seconds) Add a little to the filled soup to make the soup more delicious

5. Put three bowls of water in the pot. After the water boils, add the wontons. The wontons will be cooked easily. Once it floats on the pot noodles, it's almost done. The meat filling made this way will taste very different, very smooth and Q-like.

Extended information

Pork, shrimp, vegetables, green onions and ginger constitute the most basic filling choices. Large vegetable and meat wontons and fresh meat small wontons were once the basics of Shanghai snack bars

Wuxi Sanxian wontons, which originated in Dongting, Wuxi, are filled with fresh pork, Kaiyang and pickled mustard. Changzhou Three Fresh Wontons are stuffed with fresh pork, shrimp and herring meat. The combination of pork, aquatic products, dry goods and pickles also inspired future filling innovations. It is made from Guangdong fat, lean pork, fresh shrimp, minced earth fish, egg yolk and seasoning.

Since the 1990s, several chain-operated wonton shops have appeared in Shanghai, operating both dine-in and take-out services. In the menu, various kinds of pickles, meat and vegetables, fresh meat and vegetables, and dry goods from the north and south are included in the fillings. The variety of wonton fillings has also been greatly enriched and improved, such as lotus root and barbecued pork, bacon and yam, bacon and three mushrooms. , cantaloupe fresh meat, whitebait egg yolk, bug meat, oyster mushrooms and shrimps, pine nuts and corn meat and other fresh combinations appear.

There is also a kind of seasoning that is not available at home, (flavoring essence). This is why the wontons we make are not as delicious as those made in wonton shops.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Wonton