Name: Pork Won-Ton Soup
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 30 won-ton wrappers; chopped chives, to garnish; 1.25 litres/ 2 pints well-flavoured chicken stock; 2 spring onions, thinly sliced; salt and pepper; 450 g/ 1 lb minced pork; 1 garlic clove, finely chopped; flour, for dusting; 2.5-cm / 1-inch piece of peeled ginger, finely chopped; 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves, plus more whole leaves for garnish; 1 tbsp dry sherry; 2 tbsp Chinese soy sauce; 2 tsp sesame oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

About

Won-ton are Chinese soup dumplings, which are usually filled with minced pork and served in a clear broth made from duck and pork. Buy them from Chinese markets where they are cheap. They will freeze for up to 6 weeks, when they become increasingly brittle and unworkable. Won-ton in most Chinese restaurants tend to be pretty basic dumplings and you will be able to make superior ones at home.

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