Wontons

Name: Wontons
Ingredients: 2 tsp clear honey; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 3 oz / 85 g cooked chicken meat, chopped or shredded; 1 tbsp rice vinegar; 2 oz / 60 g shiitake or button mushrooms, finely chopped; 2 oz / 60 g peeled prawns, roughly chopped; salt; 2 oz / 60 g shiitake or button mushrooms, finely chopped; 4 spring onions or 1 small leek, trimmed and finely sliced; 3 oz / 85 g bean sprouts, blanched and roughly chopped; 4 spring onions or 1 small leek, trimmed and finely sliced; 1 tsp freshly grated ginger; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed; 1 tbsp groundnut (peanut) oil; 1 tbsp groundnut (peanut) oil; freshly ground black pepper; 24 wonton wrappers

Preparation info

Makes
24

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

About

Buy Wonton wrappers in Oriental markets to make these savoury parcels.

Ingredients

4 spring onions or 1 small leek, trimmed and finely sliced
3 oz / 85

Starter

Method

Mix the vegetables with the garlic and ginger, and then add the oil, soy sauce, honey and vinegar. Mix in the chicken meat, prawns and mushrooms. Season to taste. Spoon a little of the mixture into the centre of one wonton wrapper, floury side up, dampen the edges, and pinch it together to seal it. Fill the rest in the same way. The wontons can then be deep-fried, steamed or simmered in soup.</