Wonton Soup

Wonton soup is a warm hug in a bowl — delicate pork and prawn parcels floating in a clean, gingery broth. It's the dish you crave when you're under the weather, and the one you order first at any Chinese restaurant worth its salt.

Making wontons at home is easier than it looks. The filling is one bowl, the folding is forgiving (rustic wontons taste just as good), and square wonton wrappers are stocked in the fridge section of most supermarkets.

Make a double batch and freeze half. Frozen wontons drop straight into simmering broth, giving you a restaurant-quality dinner in under ten minutes on your laziest nights.

Servings
4
Prep Time
35
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Cook Time
20
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Ingredients
14
Total Time
55
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Ingredients

  • 30 square wonton wrappers
  • 250g pork mince
  • 150g raw prawn meat, roughly chopped
  • 2 spring onions, finely sliced, plus extra to serve
  • 2 tsp finely grated ginger
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tsp Shaoxing wine (or dry sherry)
  • 1 tsp sesame oil, plus extra to serve
  • 1/4 tsp white pepper
  • 1.5 litres good-quality chicken stock
  • 3 slices fresh ginger
  • 1 garlic clove, bruised
  • 2 baby bok choy, quartered
  • 1 tsp soy sauce (for the broth)

Instructions

  1. Combine the pork, prawn, spring onion, grated ginger, soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, sesame oil and white pepper in a bowl. Stir in one direction until sticky and well mixed.
  2. Place a teaspoon of filling in the centre of a wonton wrapper. Wet the edges with water, fold into a triangle and press out the air, then bring the two bottom corners together and pinch to seal. Repeat with the remaining wrappers and filling.
  3. Put the stock, ginger slices and garlic in a large saucepan and simmer gently for 10 minutes. Season with 1 teaspoon of soy sauce, then scoop out the ginger and garlic.
  4. Meanwhile, bring a separate large pot of water to the boil. Cook the wontons in batches for 4-5 minutes, until they float and the filling is cooked through.
  5. Add the bok choy to the broth for the last 2 minutes to just wilt.
  6. Divide the wontons between bowls with a slotted spoon, ladle over the hot broth and bok choy, and finish with extra spring onion and a few drops of sesame oil.

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