Tag: China Bistro

Pork Wonton Soup with Shrimp and Vegetables

Wonton SoupChinese Wonton Soup

I can’t take full credit for this Wonton Soup Recipe.  In all honesty, I shouldn’t take any. This was on the Menu at a certain Chinese Bistro I worked at years ago, but the recipe is so incredibly simple, I don’t feel like they should take credit for it either because there’s really nothing to it.  It’s not exactly what they put inside the Wontons themselves so I don’t feel too bad about putting it up here and claiming it as my own.  Besides, everyone has their own version of how they think a recipe should be, right?  Of course right!

Wonton Soup 2A Wonton Soup base can be any broth you personally prefer; beef, chicken, vegetable or seafood.  It really doesn’t matter.  I would argue to say that 9 out of 10 times, though, I’ve had Wonton Soup served with Chicken Stock.  So you can use broth, stock or bouillon for all I care, and with any flavor you prefer.  In this particular recipe, I use Chicken Bouillon, from Knorr.  If you can manage, have two different pots of it.  Once to cook in, and one to Ladel out Soup.  I usually have less broth in the pot I cook the wontons and shrimp in, and atleast 3 times the amount in the other.  It all depends on how many I’m serving.  This Wonton Soup recipe will easily feed 4.

Wonton Soup Ingredients:

Wontons
1 pkg Wonton Wrappers
1/2 lbs Ground Pork
2 tbsp Oyster Sauce
1/4 cup chopped Carrot Shoe String Slices
1 chopped Green Onion
1 handfull of chopped Cilantro

Soup
Per Wonton Soup Bowl
5 Shrimp
5 Water Chestnuts
5 Mushroom Slices
5 Wontons
1 handful of fresh Spinach leaves
1 Cup Chicken Broth, stock or bouillon

Mix the Wonton Ingredient’s together and fold the Wontons into shape using the wrappers.  Then place wantons and the other “Soup” ingredients in Chicken broth on the stove and cook for 6 to 7 minutes.  Strain out the Soup ingredients into a bowl full of fresh leafy spinach.  Ladle 1 cups worth of Chicken broth from a seperate pan, over the top of the ingredients and serve this fantastic Wonton Soup.

 

Chicken Lettuce Wraps


Chicken Lettuce Wraps are Easy-Peasy
Not japanesey

Anyone that has had a Chicken Lettuce Wrap that didn’t just adore it must’ve been a RETARD! This is usually a dish prepared as an appetizer and is very often reinvented with substitutions of ingredients that were never even intended to be in the original recipe when this dish was created; so the bottom line is, if you are reading this, consider yourself lucky because I personally have made thousands of these from scratch when I worked for the king of Chicken Lettuce wraps.

Curiosity Killed the Chicken Lettuce Wraps

I spent about an hour today reviewing other posts, recipes and YouTube videos just to see how well everyone else was doing when it came to presentation of their recipe and different versions of the Chicken Lettuce Wraps. Needless to say, I wasn’t impressed and I was very disappointed; wrong ingredients, substitutions, bad form in procedures in the cooking and more or less just plain inexperience. Now I understand substitutions because everyone more or less has their own personal tastes and also the lack of availability is a factor with ingredients when it comes to shopping for Chinese in a regular grocery store. But what bothers me the most is people putting name brand resturaunt titles on their recipes even though they’ve clearly changed most everything about the recipe itself. Of course they’re trying to gain a wider audience and more exposure which is fine, but I’m saying you’ve got no business teaching about something you are putting a resturaunt name to if you just don’t have the experience! Have the decency to give it a new name and make it your own or step the “F” off! Everyone has their own version of  Chicken Lettuce Wraps just not the audacity to claim it’s P.F. Changs!