Easy Mushroom Wonton Soup

To prepare this savory mushroom wonton soup, you have to make the wonton, then the broth. Wontons and mushrooms are cooked in the broth and garnished with hard boiled egg and green onions.

Course Soup

Cuisine Chinese

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 1 30

Total Time 1 50

Servings

Calories 539kcal

Ingredients

Wonton Filling Ingredients

½ pound minced pork
½ cup shrimp peeled, deveined & minced
3 water chestnuts minced
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon Shao Hsing rice cooking wine
¾ tablespoon soy sauce
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon ground pepper
2 tablespoons carrot finely diced
3 tablespoons green onion chopped
1 egg white
1 tablespoon corn starch
18 wonton wrappers

Broth for 3 Servings

5 cups chicken broth
2 garlic cloves julienned
1 teaspoon ginger julienned
2 teaspoons onion chopped
1½ tablespoons light soy sauce
1½ tablespoons rice cooking wine
½ teaspoon sesame oil
18 wontons
2 tablespoons green onions chopped
Salt to taste

Mushroom

3 cups beech brown mushroom

Garnish

3 hardboiled eggs peeled and cut in half
1 stalk green onions chopped

Instructions

Making Wontons

In a large bowl, combine pork, shrimp, egg white, green onion, water chestnut, carrots, Shao Hsing rice cooking wine, soy sauce, sesame oil, salt and ground black pepper.
Mix well and add cornstarch to the mixture. Continue mixing.
Cover mixture with saran wrap and refrigerate for an hour.
Take a wonton wrapper and place it on your palm. Put a spoonful of mixture in the center of the wrapper. Use your other hand and gather up the four corners of the wrapper forming like a star.

Making Wonton Broth

Use chicken broth or boil chicken with bones. You can also combine chicken and pork broth.
Boil ½ to whole chicken with 6 cups of water. The more bones the tastier your soup will be.
Bring it to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for an hour.
Add onion, garlic and ginger, soy sauce, rice wine and sesame oil.
When done, if you prefer a clear soup then strain the broth.
Place back the strained broth in the pot. Again, bring it to boil over medium heat.
Drop wonton and cook for 4-5 minutes. Remove and transfer the cooked wonton in a bowl if not eating right away or it will get soggy.
If serving right away, 2 minutes before wonton is cooked, add brown mushroom. Cook for 2 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper if needed.
Garnish with chopped green onions and hard boiled egg before serving. Enjoy!

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