Sarah Leung's pork-and-greens version
Method sources: The Woks of Life: Simple Wonton Soup
Bought white wonton wrappers enclose pork and greens; the cooked wontons go into seasoned chicken stock.
On the Palate
Where Wonton Soup sits in the Chinese flavor cloud
Ingredients
About 48 wontons; 6 meal portions
How it's made
6 steps · About 2 hours · About 110 min handling and cooking
- 1Blanch 60–90 sec
Blanch washed greens for 60–90 seconds; cool, squeeze dry and chop finely.
- 2Follow the endpoint
Mix greens, pork and filling seasonings into a cohesive paste.
- 3Follow the endpoint
Water-seal wrappers around about 2 tsp filling each. Test-cook a couple before finishing the batch; cook the completed wontons immediately.
- 4Follow the endpoint
Heat the stock with its sesame oil, salt and pepper. Separately boil the wontons without crowding until they float.
- 5After floating:1–2 min
Once floating, boil another 1–2 minutes until the filling is cooked through.
- 6Follow the endpoint
Lift wontons into bowls, add stock and scallion, and serve.
