Pork and Mushroom Wontons + Bonus!

Pork and mushroom wontons
Ingredients:Lean and fatty pork (one pound)
Mushroom
Shrimp
2 eggs
Salt
Dark soy
Chicken bouillon or powder (the kind you make chicken stock with)
Sesame oilPepper
Wonton wraps (about 50)

Take shrimp, pork, and mushroom and chop them into smaller pieces (make sure you chop them into all equal sizes so that you don’t have too much of one ingredient.) A secret to really flavorful and tender wonton meat is to mix fatty pork with lean pork. What my grandmother does is take off pieces of dark and fatty meat from leftover pork bone and mixes it with the lean pork meat. Once you have the meat chopped up, add the mushroom, and shrimp. Add about two tablespoons of dark soy, like a splash and a half. Then sprinkle in about a teaspoon of chicken bouillon (I spelled that right on the first try!) Add about a teaspoon of sesame oil (this stuff is strong, add more if you’d like.) Add a sprinkling of salt; a tiny sprinkling of sugar and some cracked black pepper to your choosing. Then take two eggs, save one egg white in a separate bowl and take the rest of the eggs and mix it into the meat mixture. This will act as a binding agent. Mix well until you notice that the mixture is sticking together.

Take the wonton wrapper and put it on the palm of your hand. Scoop a fairly big portion with your chopsticks or a teaspoon and half of mixture and place it in the middle. Take your index finger and dip it into the egg white. Smear egg white onto the sides of the wonton and fold. You can fold it however really just as long as the sides are closed and there are no holes. The best way is to fold them up and squeeze the tops so that it makes it look like a nice flower (mainly for presentation really.)

Then! Fry! Pan-fry! Boil! Steam! Freeze for later! However you choose!

oo waves of wontons! swim and bask in its glory!

And guess what I did today…

BONUS RECIPE: Fried Nutella and Banana Wontons

Ingredients:
Nutella
Bananas
Wontons
Oil
Powder sugar

This one is pretty much self-explanatory. You don’t need to be a genius to do this (but of course I am for thinking of it!)

So you take the wontons and scoop about a teaspoon of nutella. Place about 4-6 pieces of chopped up banana (not too mushy bananas) and smear egg white on the outside of the corners. Fold into a triangle, deep fry and voila! The trick to knowing when the oil is ready is to take a wooden chopstick and stick it in the oil. If you see bubbles eating the chopstick, you know it’s ready. You can always just dip a corner of the wonton to see if it eats the wonton too.