Only the girl and I relish it.
The boys will say it's nice and eat it but it probably isn't their choice food.
The girl and I like asian dishes with more sauce.
The boys like bread, snacks and unhealthy, fried foods.
So in having to cook for the family, I've given up trying to please ALL of us!
Just need:
Homemade Wanton Soup
Minced meat of your choice (usually I use pork)
Wanton skins (sold in a pack at the supermarket for slightly over a Singapore dollar).
Soya sauce or salt
Pepper to taste
Garnish of your choice (I like fried shallots)
I forgot to take a pic of the
Minced pork
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Just go ahead to season your meat and wrap a teaspoon's worth of meat in each ready made wanton wrapper. You know what? If you search the net, you'll find lots of videos teaching you how to wrap the wantons. Initially, I folded them the same way. Then I started observing actual wanton stall holders and how they wrap the wantons in double quick time. It's like fold and throw (into their container). Wrap and throw. I never saw them using water or egg white to seal the edges (which I used to do). So I decided to copy their style and do away with the water or egg white.
Uncooked wrapped wantons
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I reduced the amount of minced meat in each wanton to a teaspoon. Placed it in the middle of the wanton skin and just basically closed my entire palm and used my fingers (of the same hand) to squeeze the edges of the skins together. So it's a one hand job and the wantons don't look pretty but, it does the job and I was able to season, wrap and cook this entire meal in under 30 minutes.
Water to cook the wantons
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The water in which you cook the wantons differs from the soup. You wouldn't want the flour from the skins to clog up or make murky your actual soup. I throw in about 5 wantons at one go into the pot and once they float or the skins turn more transparent (which takes about 2-3 minutes), I scoop them out and drain them. The cooking process takes the longest. You could cheat and dump the whole lot in one big pot to save time. Meanwhile, there is another pot of broth cooking on the stove which will be my soup. I just use chicken stock for the simple soup.
Draining the cooked wantons
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I also boiled some macaroni to go along with the wantons. You can always just have wantons in your soup. Added some veg, fried shallots, pepper to taste and red cut chillies in soya sauce
Home made wanton soup
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