Yuanbao Wonton
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Ingredients: Self-rising flour, pork belly, leek or cabbage leaves, winter vegetables, seaweed, shrimp skin, coriander , minced green onion, minced ginger, sesame oil, MSG, light soy vinegar.
Method:
1. The processing of the noodles and the preparation of the meat filling are the same as described before. ,
2. Add chopped leeks or cabbage leaves to the meat filling.
3. The wrapping method of wontons and dumplings is different: fold both sides in half, no need to pinch pleats, just pinch the two corners together flatly.
4. Put the wrapped wontons into the pot and cook them, and cover the pot.
5. While cooking, prepare winter vegetables, seaweed and dried shrimps in a bowl, add light soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil and coriander.
6. After boiling the pot, scoop a ladle of soup into a seasoning bowl and soak the seaweed and dried shrimps.
7. Pour water into the pot, open the lid and cook. Once the pot is boiled again, the wontons will be ready. Take the wontons out and place them in a mixing bowl before serving.
Note:
1. Authentic Yuanbao wontons are cooked with chicken soup or bone soup. You can also use clear soup for home cooking.
2. Winter vegetables are a vegetable pickled with cabbage. It is a specialty of Beijing and is generally sold in major supermarkets.
How to make Huzhou wontons
To prepare the filling, remove the tendons, skin and bones from the meat, chop it into coarse pieces, add bamboo shoots, Shaoxing wine, sesame oil, sugar, salt, etc., and mix Evenly form the filling
Wrap the dough
Mix the flour into a dough and make 100 wonton wrappers. Place the meat filling into each wrapper one by one and wrap them into a slightly oblong shape with the corners turned over. of wontons. Wrapping should be even and the headband should be tight. If the bag is loose, water and odor will easily escape during cooking, which will affect the quality.
There are two methods of cooking: stir-frying and boiling.
How to make fried wontons
Cook the wontons until they are half-cooked, pick them up and let them dry for half a day to dry the skin moisture, then put 10 wontons belly-up into a container ; When frying, heat the pan first, add vegetable oil, and then add wontons, 60 at a time, if more wontons stick to the pan, fry them until they turn yellow on both sides, drain off the remaining oil, and sprinkle with L soy sauce until golden brown. Sprinkle with green onions when serving. You can dip it in rice vinegar, soy sauce, hot sauce, etc. to make it taste better.
Tea-flavored wontons
Ingredients: 500 grams of flour, 250 grams of water, 2 pounds of pork, 3 grams of jasmine tea.
Seasoning: 12 grams of salt, 7 grams of MSG, 5 grams of chicken essence, 30 grams of cornstarch.
Preparation method: 1. Mix flour with water and alkali to form a dough, roll it into a thin dough, and cut it into 6CM square pieces. 2. Cut the pork into fine pieces with a knife, add salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence and water and mix well. Finally, add cornstarch and mix well. 3. Wrap the meat filling in wontons one by one. 4. Add hot water to the pot, put the wrapped wontons into it, then add seasonings such as salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, etc., then add lotus leaves, take them out and put them in a bowl.
Food experience: Most of the wontons we liked before were the ones with seaweed, shrimp skin, and sesame oil in the soup. This time, the soup was replaced with the scent of jasmine tea, which is definitely different from others. It should be noted that whether the wontons are wrapped with pork or seafood, the raw materials must be fresh, otherwise the stale taste and unique jasmine tea fragrance will definitely not be suitable.
This operation is actually very easy and the taste is absolutely authentic. Therefore, it is recommended that even if you plan to cook a bag of quick-frozen wontons to satisfy your needs, you should still use this little trick brought by jasmine tea, because the soup with the aroma of tea is really hard to give up.
Fried wontons
Ingredients: 150 grams of small wonton wrappers, any filling can be used
Accessories: 1 tablespoon of spicy bean paste, 1/2 large sugar spoon, 1/2 tablespoon vinegar, 4 tablespoons soy sauce, 3 tablespoons water, 2 tablespoons oil
Method:
1 Wrap each wonton wrapper with fillings and fold into Make hand-style wontons and deep-fry them in hot oil until they are slightly yellow in color and take them out.
2 Use another 2 tablespoons of oil to stir-fry the spicy bean paste, then add other seasonings and stir well to make a sauce, then serve on a plate with the fried wontons for dipping.
Ham and fresh meat wontons
Ingredients: 75g Jinhua ham, 150g pork filling, 150g small wonton wrappers, 2 corianders
Accessories:
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(1) 1 teaspoon of wine, 1/2 tablespoon of starch water, 1 teaspoon of sesame oil
(2) 1 bowl of stock, a little salt and pepper
Method:
1 Steam the ham first, then chop it into pieces, mix it into the finely chopped pork filling, add seasoning (1) and mix well to form a filling.
2 Wrap a little filling into each wonton wrapper, pinch it into hand-shaped wontons, then put it in boiling water and cook until it floats.
3 Seasoning (2) Mix thoroughly and put in a bowl, add cooked wontons, then add washed and chopped coriander and serve.
Fried wontons
Ingredients: 150 grams of pork filling or shrimp paste, 150 grams of small wonton wrappers
Accessories:
(1) 1 teaspoon minced garlic, 3 tablespoons soy sauce, a little sesame oil
(2) 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, 3 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 teaspoon sugar, a little sesame oil
Method:
1 Add pork stuffing or shrimp paste to seasoning (1) and mix well to form stuffing.
2 Wrap a little filling into each wonton wrapper and pinch it into hand-style wontons.
3 Add a little oil to the pan, then put the wontons into the pan in order, and fry over low heat until cooked through.
4 Take it out when the outer skin is slightly golden. Mix the seasoning (2) evenly to make a condiment for dipping.
Tips for making wontons
1. Adjust the filling: The meat filling should be beaten vigorously in one direction, so that the meat filling will be delicious
2. Cook wontons: You should know how to cook wontons, right? Just put the wontons in after the water boils. When the water boils again, add a bowl of cold water. Do this three times to make the wontons delicious
Pea sprouts are very common in the south, but they may not be easy to buy in the north. You can use Use blanched rapeseed and other vegetables instead
As mentioned before, wonton wrappers are the same as dumpling wrappers. They can be bought in staple kitchens that sell flour and noodles. Just tell the shopkeeper how many we want to wrap. Yes, very convenient. However, there are differences in the shape of wonton wrappers in the north and south. The wonton wrappers in the south are trapezoidal. When wrapping, place the meat filling on the narrower side and follow the instructions. There is not much difference in cooking time and taste.