Chicken wontons
Chicken wonton (Pangsit Ayam) with clear chicken/ vegetable soup is delicious to have for a light lunch or as an afternoon snack on a cold day.
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 50 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 pound ground chicken/ chicken mince.
- 7 tablespoons tapioca flour.
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour/ plain flour.
- 2 spring onions/ scallions (finely chopped.)
- 2 cloves garlic (minced or crushed finely into paste.)
- ½ inch ginger (minced finely.)
- 2 eggs (lightly beaten.)
- 1 tablespoon light soy sauce.
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil.
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper (or white pepper.)
- 1 teaspoon onion powder.
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder.
- 1 teaspoon salt.
- 50 pieces wonton pastries. ((see the note).)
- 1.5 liter Chicken/ vegetable stock.
- ½ Onion (finely sliced.)
- 1 Spring onion/ scallion (sliced.)
- 1 tablespoon Butter.
- Salt and pepper (according to taste.)
- Fried onions (optional)
Instructions
- 1
For the wontons:
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Firstly, we have to make the filling by putting all the ingredients except the pastry into a mixing bowl.
- 3
Using a spoon, mix the ingredients well that you can tell that it’s all mingled.
- 4
At first, you may find it slimy and slippery because of the eggs. But keep stirring and mixing until all is well blended.
- 5
Open the wonton pastry pack, and put the pastry on a damp tea towel. Fold the towel and cover the pastry with it. The idea is to keep the pastry moist so it won’t go dry and hard.
- 6
Take a sheet of the pastry and put it on your palm, then put about 1 teaspoon of the chicken mixture on the middle of the pastry.
- 7
Take one corner of the pastry to its opposite and fold it over the meat. So you’ll have a triangle pastry with the chicken filling inside.
- 8
Fold the pastry gently from end to end.
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You can check the video to get a clearer idea.
- 10
In a pot, boil some water and put the wontons in the boiling water. Make sure the water covers the wontons fully.
- 11
When the wontons float on the surface, it means they’re cooked.
- 12
Spoon and drain the wontons.
- 13
For the soup:
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In a separate pot, melt the butter and put in the onion slices.
- 15
When the onions become translucent and smell fragrant, add in the spring onion/ scallion slices. Fry further for about a minute or two.
- 16
Put your preferred stock in the pot, and let it boil at low heat.
- 17
You can season the soup with salt and pepper according to your taste.
- 18
Assemble the chicken wontons with the soup:
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Put a few wontons in a small bowl and add in the soup.
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Garnish with some fried onions.
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Tuck in and enjoy.