Homemade Pork Dumpling (Wan Ton)

Ever wonder you could do it yourself at home and you could include any fillings (be it pork, chicken, beef or mutton)..well up to you.

The good thing about wanton is I can make a lot and keep them in the freezer. And use them to cook instant soup with some vege, deep fried it as snacks or add into our instant noodle, it can be dry or soup instant noodle.

Here's the recipe.

100g of wanton skin (can get it from wet market or in Supermarket but I prefer wet market cos is freshly made skin)
300g of mince lean meat (your choice, I don't eat fats.If you choose pork, you may use skinless pork belly or leg tendersiden and mince it yourself. If lazy, you may purchase ready mince meat however I hardly buy those cos I have no idea what kind of meat has been included)
1 onion - tiny dice and stir fry with oil till transparent & fragrant. leave it aside to cool down
15 pcs of prawn - cut into dice
5 pcs - waterchestnut (just buy from the fruit seller which they peeled, easy not need to peel yourself. Then chopped it)
3Tblsp of soya sauce
4 tbsp - Lee kum Kee superior oyster sauce (different brand has different taste)
1 cap of Hua Tiao wine
1tbsp if corn flour
dashes of Ghee Hiang Sesame seed oil (other brand don't seem that fragrant)
dashes of pepper
chop spring onion

METHODS

Mix all the above ingredients together in a big bowl and let it marinade in the fridge for 4 hrs. However do taste it whether is tasty enough.

Then take a bit of the mixture, put it on the centre of wanton skin. Close it up . Make it into triangle shape. Put both end angle together and you will get a sort of rose bud. To seal the angle, use some water. Set aside for those you want to cook immediate and the rest can be kept in the freezer.However, do divide them first of how many pcs you want to use or else it will be hard for you to get them separate when they are all stick together.

For soup wanton.

Use Maggi chicken cube stock or you may use real ikan bilis stock to make the soup. (500ml of water). Let it boil then put it the wanton (up to you to use how many pieces), then when is ready all wanton will float. Add in Vege (yaw mak), dash of pepper,hua tiao wine ,sesame oil and deep fried garlic

Deep Fried Wanton