Fried Wontons

Name: Fried Wontons
Yield: Makes 24
Cuisine: Trinidad and Tobago
Ingredients: ¼ cup rice wine vinegar; 1 cup canola oil, for deep-frying; ½ cup sweet soy sauce; ½ fresh hot red chili pepper, finely chopped; ½ pound shrimp, chicken breast, or lean pork, coarsely ground in a food processor or meat grinder; 24 wonton skins; 1 teaspoon soy sauce; 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped; 1 scallion, trimmed and finely chopped (both white and green parts)

Preparation info

Makes
24

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sweet Hands

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

About

Chinese takeout is just as popular in Trinidad as it is in the United States—but of course it has a Trinidadian twist. This popular snack is livened up with the addition of hot peppers. You can make them with your choice of proteins.

Ingredients

½ pound shrimp, chicken breast, or lean pork, coarsely ground in a food processor or meat grinder
1 scallion, trimmed and finely chopped (both white and gre

Americas
Trinidad and Tobago
Snack
Caribbean

Method

Combine the ground shrimp, chicken, or pork with the scallion, garlic, chili pepper, and 1 teaspoon soy sauce and set aside.
Have a small bowl of cold water ready. Place a wonton skin flat on a work surface and put 1 teaspoon of the shrimp/meat mixture in the middle of the square skin. Dip a finger in cold water and run it along the edges of the wonton skin (this