: : Granny’s Cooking ~ Wantan Soup : :

Thought I might not have time to put this up but managed to finish some stuff. Right, here is how Granny made wantan soup. Pretty simple and all. She uses minced pork as the filling but you can substitute it with other mince meat or even fish or squid.

First, Granny chopped up the pork and minced it using a cleaver. Then, she added about 1 teaspoon of soy sauce and some pepper to the mixture. She did not add in any cornflour to the mixture but you might want to add some if you’re using fish/squid. It’s up to you.

Mix mix mix mix mix.

Then, take a piece of wantan skin and put in approximately one teaspoon. You can add more meat into the filling if you want to. Wantan skin can be kept for ages in the freezer.

There! Approximately 1 teaspoon.

Wet the edges of the wantan skin so that the edges will stick together. Just the edges will do. Fold it diagonally in half and then in gather the rest of the edges.

The finished product. However, we’re going to make some wantan soup.

Boil some water in a pot. Once it’s boiling happily, add in some chicken stock. Granny was using the chicken granules from Maggi. She did try using the liquid chicken stock from Maggi but that had a funny aftertaste. However, it went well when added to the rice cooker to make chicken rice! Yum!

Once the water is boiling again (after adding in the chicken stock), add in the wantan pieces.

When the wantan pieces are floating, you know that it’s thoroughly cooked. When you’re ready to serve the soup, add some chopped spring onions. If you add in the spring onions while it’s boiling, it will turn yellow.

Good luck cooking! 🙂