Crepe Wonton Soup

Ingredients

• Wonton wrappers :
• 200g Plain flour
• 50g Egg white
• 45g Water
• 1g Salt
• 30g Wheat flour
• Wonton fillings :
• 200g Banana prawns
• 150g Pork mince
• 1g Salt
• 1g Sugar
• White pepper powder (little)
• 4g Lee Kum Kee Sesame oil
• 20g water (soaked with spring onions and ginger)
• Wonton soup for each bowl:
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp sugar
• 1/8 tsp white pepper
• 1 cup chicken stock (or add 1/4 tsp chicken bouillon to 1 cup boiling water)
• 1/4 tsp lard
• Dry shrimp
• Seaweed
• For garnishing :
• 2 eggs (mixed well, pan-fry, and sliced thinly)
• 1/2 tsp Lee Kum Kee Sesame oil

Method

1. Let’s start with making wonton wrappers from scratch.
2. Pour plain flour on the working surface.
3. Bend your finger, make a well. Add salt to infuse strength into the dough. Add egg white to help the flour come together. Add half of the water to mix with the ingredients. Then add the rest of the water.
4. Stir until the mixture turns flaky. Now grab and knead the dough. To collect flour on the counter, can be physically demanding. To create fine food with your own hands, it is so worth it!
5. Now starting to knead the dough, one hand alternative with another hand. Press downward and forward. Arms perpendicular to counter. When you are done, fold the dough, refine the shape. The dough should be firm and silky smooth. Cover the dough with plastic wrap, let it rest for 10-15 minutes.
6. Handmade pastry in the 21st century, not only means more delicious food on the table, and also enjoy the process of cooking!
7. Then we make the filling. Use banana prawns, remove the shell, devein, and finely chop. Do not pound the prawns, as prawns become tacky after pounding, and you won’t taste the bouncy prawns later.
8. Prawns are prepared, then make the meat stuffing. Use pig shoulder, add salt, sugar, white pepper powder (to remove the fishy smell).
9. Now use one hand, stir the meat stuffing in one direction, until it reaches a jelly-like texture. Add in ginger and spring onion water (also to remove fishy smell). Add it in batches, and keep stirring in the same direction. If you change the direction, the meat stuffing will start secrete water. Stir until the stuffing become bouncy. Everything comes together as one. Then the meat stuffing is ready.
10. Now mix in the prawns. Add sesame oil to enhance the flavour.
11. Now the dough is done resting. We can make the wrappers.
12. You must be wondering how can you make such a thin and light wrappers?
13. You can use pasta machine to roll the wonton wrappers to become so thin that you can see through it.
14. Find a sharp knife, cut off one end, stack up layer by layer, or unfold from the other end. Fold over if it is too long. The wrappers are 7*7 squares. It can be slightly larger than that. This is the wonton wrapper, thin and transparent, with good ductility.
15. Next is to assemble the wontons. Place a wrapper on one hand. Hold you hand like a cup, scoop about 7 to 8 g stuffing, bend the middle finger, take away the scrapper, pinch with one finger, and push with another finger. Four fingers must work closely. Gently clench your fist. To make a cute square wonton.
16. These wontons turn wrinkled after cooking. Hence the name crepe wonton.
17. Finally we make the soup. Add salt to a bowl, a little bit sugar, a little bit white pepper, add boiling chicken stock, to allow salt, sugar, white pepper to melt into the stock. Add a little lard, premium dry shrimp, seaweed (add earlier to grant more time steeping) to fully emit the fragrance of sea.
18. Now all the preparations are done. For the last step, to have a happy day, good wonton is a guaranteed way. We cannot toss wontons in water, but have to place them in a slotted spoon. Cook the bottom first, so that when they are fully immersed in water, they won’t go tumbler- style, and we will keep them intact. Turn down to medium-low heat, let water simmer, to gently cook the wonton. Otherwise the wonton can easily be broken.
19. After a short while, wontons float up to the surface. When food floats to the surface, it means it has become lighter than water, as steam has cooked it through. Remove from heat, let it cool. Allow protein to set, then put them back in boiling water, and transfer to the soup in just a few seconds.
20. Add thinly sliced omelette, be generous to yourself. Drizzle sesame oil over it, and it’s done!
21. It does smell nice! Bouncy prawns and silky wrappers.
22. When you finish your wonton soup, your day just becomes better!

Product used in recipe

• Lee Kum Kee - Sesame Oil