Wonton Soup

Preparation Time: 40 minutes

Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4
Difficulty: Medium

Ingredients:
For the wonton
- 300gr mince meat
- 300gr shelled and deveined prawns
- 2 tbs dried shrimp, rinsed with water
- 3 water chestnuts - (馬蹄 mǎtí)
- 1 tbs oyster sauce
- 2 tbs soy sauce
- 1 tbs Chinese rice wine
- a few drops sesame oil (2-3 drops is enough.. don't be too much)
- 1/2 tsp white pepper
- wonton wrappers, as needed

For the soup
- a handful of ikan bilis, rinsed with water
- 4 bunches of baby bok choy (xiao bai cai), cut into shorter sections
- salt
- 1.5l water

Directions:
1. Finely chop the prawns
2. Rinse the water chestnut under warm water. Peel the skin (like you peel an apple) and finely chop.
3. Fried dried shrimp till it turn crispy



4. Combine the mince meat, prawns, dried shrimp and water chestnuts with oyster sauce, soy sauce, rice wine, sesame oil and white pepper.



Mix it well :)



5. Fill the wonton skins --> check here to know how to wrap it



Me, making the wonton..



Put in a container to keep if you are not going to cook it immediately

6. In a pot, bring 1l water to boil. Add washed ikan bilis and boil for 10 mnts
7. Using a slotted ladle, remove ikan bilis.



8. In another pot of 500ml water, bring water to boil. Add wontons.
9. When the wonton cooked (until they rise to the top and the filling is cooked through), transfer to the pot with ikan bilis stock with a slotted spoon.
10. Add xiao bai cai. Cook for another 5-8 minutes.
11. Add salt to your taste.



12. Serve hot.

Benefits of water cheastnuts :
It is a relatively cooling food and is said to help relieve coughs