Celebrate Chinese new year with Homemade wonton soup with homemade wrappers! These delicious wontons are made with vegetarian filling. You can also freeze the wontons to make for a quick meal.
Sift flour mix salt, rub oil until the flour resembles breadcrumbs.
Add water little by little and prepare a stiff dough, kneading thoroughly. Apply 1 teaspoon oil and cover set aside for 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes gently knead the dough and then divide it into 16 balls.
Dredge in dry all-purpose flour and roll out thin on a floured board. With a sharp knife cut into 4-inch squares.
Liberally dust with flour on both sides. Set aside.
The cut-out scraps keep aside and covered with a moist napkin. ( I used these scraps to make momos).
Preparation For The Filling And The Soup:
Mince garlic and chop the onions finely. Cut the spring onions whites in thin roundels. Chop the greens as fine as you can. Peel the carrot and cut then in fine juliennes. Chop the french beans finely. Cut the cabbage and capsicum fine.
Crush the white pepper coarsely.
To Prepare The Filling:
Heat the oil and the garlic and stir-fry.
Stir-fry onions till translucent. Add the carrot, and french beans and stir-fry till the colour changes. Add the cabbage and stir-fry.
Add the crushed pepper mix, green chilli sauce and soya sauce. Mix well.
Add capsicum and mix well.
Check for seasoning and add salt.
Switch off the flame. Set aside to cool then add spring onion greens.
To Assemble The Wontons:
To make a wonton take a wrapper and apply water to 2 sides. Add the filling in the centre. Fold the wrapper so that the filling in and the wonton look like a triangle.
Now bring the top portion over the base of the triangle. The edges of the triangle stick together. Wet one edge and stick the sides. Like a chef’s hat.
Set aside again under the moist napkin.
Now Prepare The Soup:
Heat oil in a pan and add stir-fry garlic till the raw smell goes away.
Stir-fry spring onion whites till translucent. Add carrots juliennes and cut and fine beans.
Add 2 maggie cubes and hot water and salt to taste. Bring the mix to a boil.
Add the wontons to the boiling soup.
Cook, uncovered over medium flame for 5 minutes, by which time the wontons will float to the surface.
Add cabbage and capsicum and switch off the flame. Sprinkle with spring onion tops mix and serve.
Notes
Protips:
Cut all the filling ingredients thin and fine.
To make the wrapper if eggs are acceptable use the egg to make the dough. These wrappers are better manageable. Can be easily pinched, folded or cut.