As a "killing 2 birds with 1 stone" tactic, I decided to suggest wrapping wontons sometime over the Easter weekend since we had free time anyway, and finally killing the long time craving. I find great pleasure in hands on ventures and producing something from scratch, so I was very excited when she agreed.... but only to put together the mixture, and I would do the wrapping. I didn't really care, it was worth it and I always thought it was fun anyway =)
So for the mixture (filling), she soaked dried up mushrooms over night. Snipped off the stems (they get rubbery) and cut them up into slices. While she did that and chopped them up into bitty pieces, I worked on the shrimp...
Raw shrimp, shelled and deveined |
Chopping up the ground pork and mushroom together |
With everything mixed in |
The wrappers we used |
So onwards to the fun part!
Here's how my mom taught me to wrap wontons!
Hold the wrapper in a diamond shape with point facing you.
Scoop in about a teaspoon amount of filling and 1 piece of shrimp.
Fold up the bottom point upwards most way. Leaving about a cm point to point at the top.
Turn up the bottom. Not too tightly but enough to keep it in place. Gently squeeze both sides of wrapper to move filling towards the center. Again make sure not to squeeze too hard, wrapper breakage isn't a pretty site...
Add a dab of water onto the right point of the wrapper.
Put your left pointer finger to where the mixture is in the middle, and wrap both arms of the wrapper towards the center. Overlap the right over left. Make sure to give the wrapper and extra squeeze where it overlaps to make sure the water has "glued" them together
And you have made your own wonton!
Look at all them! |
And the FINAL RESULTTTTT:
Drummmm Roolllllll:
Finishedd! |
Ta-daaa! Yummers!
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