Won ton soup

Name: Won ton soup
Yield: Feeds eight
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: ½ tsp ground black pepper; 8 water chestnuts, finely chopped; ½ tsp salt; 250 g (9 oz) minced pork; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 1 packet fresh won ton wrappers; 2 green (spring) onion stems, finely chopped; 2 slices ginger, peeled; 250 g (9 oz) raw prawns; 4 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked; 1.5 litres (3 pints) good chicken broth; 1 small egg, lightly beaten; 1 Chinese cabbage

Preparation info

Feeds
eight

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

Won means cloud and ton means swallow, and together they add up to one of the most popular traditional soups in China. Serve as a whole meal, with as many won tons as you like. This amount of stuffing will make forty, far too many even if you like won tons as much as I do, but it’s hard to work with a smaller quantity, so freeze any remaining mixture for next time.