Shanghai Style Wontons 上海菜肉雲吞
You can substitute ground pork for any ground meat. You can also use vegetable you’d like. Shanghai style wontons typically use Shanghai bok choy, but it is also common to use napa cabbage, celery, carrots, watercress or a combination of vegetables. Shitake mushrooms and shrimp are also commonly added.Serve it in a broth or just soy sauce, sesame oil, chilis and green onions. I also like making a spicy peanut sauce for them. The sky’s the limit! Please share some of your ideas with me as I’m always looking for ways to change it up!
Approximate cost (CAD) $15
Ingredients
- 600 g Ground pork
My pork to vegetable ratio is approx. 1:2 - 1200 g Bok choy
- 3 stalks Green onions
- 1 tbsp Light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp Oyster sauce
- 1 ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp White pepper powder
- 1½ tsp Sugar
- 2 tsp Cornstarch
- 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine
- 2 tsp Sesame oil
- 2 packages Shanghai wonton wrappers
there were 30-32 wrappers in my package
Instructions
Instructions for filling:
- In a mixing bowl, add 600 g ground pork, 1 ½ tsp salt, 1 ½ tsp sugar, 2 tsp cornstarch, ½ tsp white pepper powder, 1 tbsp light soy sauce, 1 tbsp oyster sauce and 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine. Mix well and set aside
- Wash bok choy, blanche in boiling water for 1 minute and strain
- Once the bok choy has cooled, wring out some of the water and chop into small pieces
- Take a handful of the chopped bok choy and squeeze out excess water. Put into the mixing bowl
- Chop up green onions and add to the mixing bowl
- Mix the filling together. Using your hands to mix will increase adhesion of the filling.
- Add 2 tsp of sesame oil and mix well again
Instructions for wrapping:
- Prepare a small bowl of water for sealing the wonton wrappers and take your filling out of the fridge
- Prepare a large plate with 1 tsp cornstarch rubbed on it so that the wontons will not stick to the plate
If you’re freezing the wontons, use a plastic container that can go into the freezer. Just be sure that the wontons don’t touch each other when freezing. After they are frozen solid, you can store them in a freezer bag. They should be good for a couple of months - Lay one piece of the wonton wrapper on a flat surface
- Use your finger to wet 3 edges of the wrapper, avoiding the edge furthest away from you
- Put some filling at around the off-centre position, leaving approx. 1 cm space between the edge closest to you
- Bring the edge closest to you over the filling and paste it to the space just past the filling leaving a gap on the opposite edge
- Fold the opposite edge towards you. It will rest loosely on top of the wonton
- Flip the wonton over so that the loose edge is now on the bottom
- Wet corners “A” and “B”
- Now wet the 2 folded corners “A” and “B”, bring them together and stick them to one another
- Now you should have a gold bullion looking wonton (yuan bao)
- Repeat until you finish using all the filling or the wrappers
Unused filling tastes great in a fried rice! 
Instructions for cooking:
- Bring water to a boil in a pot.
For reference, use 4 litres of water to cook 30 wontons that are at room temperature. If you’re cooking frozen wontons, 4 litres of water for 20 wontons. If there is not enough water, the temperature of the water will get too low, resulting in longer boiling time, resulting in a soft or mushy wrapper and over-cooked filling. - Add wontons to the pot, stir for 1 minute and cover with a lid
Stirring it for the first minute will prevent the wontons from sticking to the bottom of the pot 
- When the water starts to boil, add 1/8th more water(room temperature) to the pot. So, if you used 4 litres of water, then add 2 cups more water. Cover with lid
- If your wontons were frozen, repeat step 3 one more time. Otherwise, you’re wontons should be floating and should be done. However, check for doneness before consuming
- Serve with any of your favorite sauces or in a broth
Nutrition
Calories: 419kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 25gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 76mgSodium: 2420mgPotassium: 891mgFiber: 3gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 9753IUVitamin C: 99mgCalcium: 268mgIron: 4mg
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