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Author: newwavegurly Status: published license cc-by-nc-nd tags: soup, homemade, yummy, wonton, shrimp wontons, pot full, flavorful, egg drop soup, soup is good food,
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Recipe for Shrimp Wontons
10 large shrimp (cooked and chopped/diced)
3 scallions/green onions (thinly sliced)
1/4 cup diced water chestnuts
2 tsp. black bean garlic sauce
2 tsp. olive oil
1/2 tsp. toasted sesame oil
wonton skins
4 cups vegetable broth (can substitute chicken broth)
Heat olive oil in skillet. Add shrimp, scallions, and water chestnuts until warmed through. Add black bean sauce and sautee until other ingredients are coated evenly. Remove from heat and put in a bowl to cool. Mix in sesame seed oil.
While you're making the actual wontons, put the vegetable stock on the stove to heat in a large pot. Bring to a simmer and allow it to remain that way.
After mixture cools, put mixture, approximately one teaspoon at a time, into the center of a wonton skin. Using your fingers, wet the edges of the wonton, and then fold one corner to one corner, creating a triangle. Press down the edges to seal up the filling into the wonton skin. Then wet the corners on the folded edge and bring into the center, sealing one corner to the other. Repeat this until finished. While you're doing this, put the completed wontons onto a dish lined with a piece of parchment paper, and don't pile the wontons on top of one another.
Once you've constructed all of the wontons, place 6 into the simmering vegetable stock, and cook until they float to the top and are translucent. Remove from stock and set aside. Repeat until all wontons are cooked.
Recipe for Egg Drop Soup
32 oz. of Chicken Broth
1 tsp. soy sauce
1 scallion/green onion, sliced thin
2 large eggs, lightly beaten.
Bring chicken broth and soy sauce to a simmer in a large pot. Lightly mix the scallions into the egg. Once chicken broth is simmering, slowly begin drizzling the egg and scallion mixture into the broth while stirring the contents of the pot (use either a fork or chopsticks). Continue doing so until all of the egg mixture has been added. Allow to cook for about a minute, while still stirring, to set the eggs.
Add wontons into the soup after the egg has set.
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Now, I actually used a new chicken broth that made this taste really yummy. It's College Inn brand, and it's Thai Coconut Curry broth. Their description: "Chicken broth infused with a blend of coconut, curry, garlic and coriander flavors." It really added a richness of flavor to the soup that probably wouldn't have been there otherwise.
