Wontons: a recipe with a photo

Vontons are close relatives of our dumplings, who came to us from China. This nourishing dish is traditionally cooked for a couple, boiled or fried until crispy. From our article, you will learn how to prepare the scones, the recipe for the test and the filling, as well as small culinary tricks that will help make this dish especially tasty.

Dough for sticks

In China, for this dish is already sold ready-made dough, cut into squares or circles of the right size. However, you can easily prepare the foundation yourself and make sure that there is nothing complicated in this. Read how to make homemade dough for soup recipes (recipe):

• Sift in a bowl three glasses of flour.
• Boil a half-glass of water in a saucepan and pour it into the flour. After this, add another quarter cup of water at room temperature.
• Put salt in a bowl, a spoonful of vegetable oil, knead the dough and leave it to stand for 10-15 minutes.

Wontones with shrimps and pork

For this recipe, you can prepare the dough yourself or purchase it in the store. Divide the desired amount of the test into three parts. Two cover with a towel and put aside, and roll the third and use a mold to cut out circles of 5 cm in diameter. To prepare the stuffing, you will need:

• Mash with a fork 300 grams of peeled shrimp, add 200 grams of pork forcemeat and mix.
• After that, grind with a knife 120 grams of bamboo shoots (they can be replaced with marinated mushrooms) and add them to minced meat.
• Season the filling with two tablespoons of soy sauce, two tablespoons of rice (or white dry) wine, salt and pepper.
• Add half a tablespoon of vegetable oil, two tablespoons of rice flour (you can replace it with starch), one protein and a teaspoon of sugar.

Stuff the mixture well and place in the center of each workpiece. After this, connect the edges of the dough so that a pouch with an open neck is obtained. Prepare the water in the steamer until it is ready, and then serve to the table

Fried sticks. Recipe with a photo

At home, Chinese dumplings are given different shapes. Sometimes the edges are completely fastened together, sometimes they leave the "neck" open, and in Sichuan cuisine they are often given a triangular shape. This time we propose to make bags from the dough and fry them in deep fat. Read how to cook fried pots (recipe):

• First, let's prepare the sauce. Take one red chili pepper, remove the seeds and white septum. Flesh cut into thin half rings, which then should be combined with a tablespoon of sugar, a tablespoon of lime juice, three tablespoons of water and four spoons of soy sauce (you can take fish instead).
• Grind 250 grams of peeled shrimp, add to it finely chopped green onions, five or six cloves of garlic and a few twigs of cilantro.
• Mix the prawns with 450 grams of minced pork, one chicken egg, a tablespoon of soy sauce, a teaspoon of lime and a teaspoon of sugar. Season with mince salt, pepper and mix well.
• Cover the serving bowl with food wrap and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour.
• Take 350 grams of ready-made dough for sticks or cook it yourself. Put a minced meatball in the center of each piece, which should be rolled with wet hands. Protect the edges so that you have a small pouch.
• For deep-frying, preheat the vegetable oil in a deep saucepan, and then fry in it the sticks to a golden color.

Prepare the prepared dish to the table hot with a spicy sauce.

Sweet pots

There are many kinds of fillings, with which Chinese dumplings are prepared. In this case, we suggest that you stock up on dried berries and nuts. Read the instructions and prepare with us original bottles. Recipe:

• Take 75 grams of dried cherries without pits and mix it with 30 grams of cashew. Add sugar and ground cinnamon to taste.
• Prepare a fresh dough or get ready. In the center of each piece lay a teaspoon of fillings and tightly join the edges, giving the squares a square shape.
• Pour the vegetable oil in the wok and fry the sweet dumplings in it.

Ready to put on the paper towels to the oil glass, and then to the dish. Before serving, they can be sprinkled with a mixture of cinnamon and powdered sugar.

Vontons with minced meat. Recipe

Surprise your loved ones with a new dish of Chinese cuisine and they will be grateful to you. How to cook sticks? The recipe is read below:

• Half a small fork of cabbage finely chop with a knife and put out in a frying pan until cooked.
• One carrot and one onion peel, and then grate. Combine the vegetables with 250 grams of minced pork, a spoon of grated ginger, a clove of garlic, a spoonful of soy sauce and a spoonful of sesame oil.
• When the cabbage cools a little, mix it with minced meat and leave to stand for half an hour.
• At this time, you can prepare the dough and cut it into small squares.
• Put the filling spoon on the preforms and wrap with an envelope. After this, boil the water until ready in salted water and serve to the table.

Wontones with mushrooms

If you like mushrooms or have excluded meat from your menu, then pay attention to these vegetarian pots. Recipe:

• 200 grams of Peking cabbage and 80 grams of celery chop with a blender.
• 100 grams of champignons and one hot pepper chop with a knife, and then fry in a pan until cooked.
• Season forcemeat with soy sauce, add onions, cilantro and ginger to taste.
• Prepare the dough (you can find the recipe above) and roll it into a thin layer.
• Cut the workpiece into squares, put in the center of each stuffing and form bags.

Wonton should be boiled for a couple of minutes until ready. You can serve them to the table with the original sauce, which is prepared from the following products:

• Light soy sauce - 30 ml.
• Sesame oil is half a teaspoon.
• Dark rice vinegar is half a teaspoon.
• Red pepper is spicy.
• Ginger - one teaspoon.

We hope that you will like the recipes collected in this article, and you will please your relatives with new dishes every day.