For some comfort food is a rich bowl of beef stew or creamy, cheesy lasagna, but in my case its a big bowl of wanton soup with egg noodles. Usually I would head into the city and pay a visit to my favorite hole in the wall Chinese restaurant with plastic flowers and live seafood in the back but not today; instead I decided to make my own wanton soup. The concept sounds complicated, and it does require one to run a mini sweatshop in your kitchen in order to wrap wantons but it is well worth the effort when you realize that you can now have a bowl of comfort anytime of day.
The recipe is pretty simple:
-1/2 cup of lean ground pork
-1/2 cup of prawns, minced
-2tsp of salt
-1tsp of pepper
-1tsp of sesame oil
-wanton skins
Soup stock:
-1 head of cabbage, slice into quarters
-2 carrots
-2 daikon (found at asian markets)
-1 to 2 tbs of preserved cabbage
-1 onion, grilled over the stovetop
-salt and pepper to taste
extra:
-egg noodles
-napa cabbage
-green onions
combine all the ingredients and fill the wanton skins with about 1tsp of filling; rub two of the four edges of the wrapper with some egg yolk+water (egg wash) and pull up the opposite edges to form a triangle, now crimp the edges so that you form a purse like dumpling. You can either drop the wantons into boiling water (they are done when they float to the surface) or you can steam them in a bamboo steamer. Bring some water to a boil, dunk some egg noodles until soft (just a few minutes) place in a bowl with some napa cabbage and sliced greens onions. Finish bowl with 4-5 wantons and lots of steamy hot soup...done and done!
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