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Start the new year by feeding your body and soul with healthful meals that are easy to prepare. You’ll then have more time to sit at the table and have a conversation with your loved ones, which you’ll find, simply makes everyone feel better.
Better Than Takeout Wonton Soup
INGREDIENTS
For the Wontons
- 38-42 wonton wrappers
- 16 oz. ground pork
- 6 scallions, chopped
- 2 teaspoons Spice World Minced Ginger
- 2 teaspoons Spice World Minced Garlic
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce or tamari
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoons rice wine or dry sherry
- 1/2 teaspoon chili oil optional
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
For the Soup
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 2-3 teaspoons Spice World Minced Ginger
- 3 teaspoons Spice World Minced Garlic
- 6 cups low sodium chicken broth
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce or tamari
- 2 tablespoons rice wine
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
- 1 ½ cups carrots, shredded
- 1 (10 oz.) bag frozen shelled edamame, thawed
- 1-pound medium shrimp peeled, deveined, tails removed
- 3 scallions, chopped
- 1 small head Napa cabbage chopped into bite-size pieces (or 4 cups)
- Garnish with Spice World Chili Onion Crunch and black sesame seeds
INSTRUCTIONS
BROTH
- In a Dutch oven or soup pot, heat 2 teaspoons sesame oil over medium high heat. Add ginger, garlic, red pepper flakes and sauté for 1 minute. Add chicken broth, soy sauce, rice wine, and brown sugar and bring to a boil then reduce to a gentle simmer. Simmer on low for 15-20 minutes while you prep your wontons.
WONTONS
- Add scallions, ginger and garlic to food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Add ground pork and all remaining filling ingredients and pulse until combined but not pasty.
- Assemble wontons: Fill a small bowl with cool water. Lay out a baking sheet size sheet of parchment paper (to lay finished wontons on).
- Working on a flat, dry surface, lay out 4-6 wonton wrappers. Keep remaining wontons covered with plastic wrap or in a large freezer bag. Place 2 teaspoons of filling in the center of each wrapper (I use a heaping ½ tablespoon for convenience and eye ball it).
- Working with one wonton at a time, brush the top 2 sides of wonton with water with your finger.
- Bring 2 opposite corners of the wonton together (2 dry, 2 wet) to form a triangle and enclose the filling, pinching edges of the wrapper together to firmly a seal, pressing out any air.
- Moisten opposite corners of the long side of triangle and fold them down then and across one another then pinch to seal together.
- Place finished wontons on parchment paper and cover with a damp paper towel or damp towel. Assemble remaining wontons in the same manner
SOUP
- Bring soup broth to a boil. Add carrots, edamame, shrimp and cabbage to soup then gently add wontons using a slotted spoon. Cook for 4 minutes. Add wontons and cook until they float and pork filling is cooked through (about 4 minutes). Remove wontons with a slotted spoon straight to serving bowls. Do not let wontons sit in broth before serving or they will become soggy and fall apart.
- Add green onions to soup and cook 1 minute.
- Ladle soup over wontons and serve immediately with sesame seeds and Chili Onion Crunch.
