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Wontons

A Chinese dinner made with pork. Ready in about 40 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 2 people +

Changed from 4 to 2 people · Back to 4

Main ingredient

  • ½ lb pork Shopping tip: Ground pork.

Fresh & other

  • 2 garlic cloves
  • ½ tsp ginger
  • 2 carrots
  • 2 celery
  • 3 green onions Shopping tip: Green onions (scallions).
  • 1 pack wonton skin
  • Bottle water

Sauces & oils

  • 1 ½ tsp soy sauce
  • ½ tsp sesame seed oil
  • Fry oil Shopping tip: Vegetable, canola or peanut oil (good for high heat).

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

  1. Mix vegetables, sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, garlic and pork in a bowl.

  2. Separate wonton skins.

  3. Place a heaping teaspoon of filling in your center of the wonton.

  4. Brush water on 1 borders of your skin, covering 1 4 inch from your edge.

  5. Fold skin over to form triangle, sealing edges.

  6. Pinch the two long outside points together.

  7. Heat oil to 450 degrees.

  8. Fry 4 to 5 each time until golden.

  9. Drain.

  10. Serve with sauce.

On the side: Steamed rice

A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.

How to make it (25 min)
  1. Rinse the rice. Simmer it covered in water (2 cups per cup of rice) for about 18 minutes, then let it sit 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.

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Recipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.