Wontons for Wonton Soup

Ingredients:

• 1/2 pound lean ground pork or veal
• 1/4 pound medium shrimp - peeled, deveined, and coarsely chopped
• 5 brown mushrooms
• 3 green onions, finely chopped
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon sherry
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon oriental 5 spice
• 1 (14 ounce) packages square wonton wrappers

Directions:

Prep Time: 60 min Total Time: 75 min Yield: 70 wontons

1. Strain mushroom soaking liquid completely. Pat dry with paper towel, and chop.
2. Place pork, shrimp, mushrooms, green onion, egg, soy sauce, salt, and dashi (if using) together in a large bowl. Mix thoroughly until all ingredients are completely incorporated.
3. Have a bowl of luke-warm water available for dipping. If you are right-handed, place wonton wrapper in a triangle position on your left palm. Place a small amount of filling (about a heaping teaspoon or more) near the lower corner of wonton wrapper. Fold that corner over filling toward the opposite corner about half way, making sure the filling is securely enclosed.
4. Dip finger into a bowl of water and dab left corner of wrapper with water. Fold left and right corners toward you (away from the top corner), resulting in the shape of a nurse's hat.
5. Place wontons on cookie sheets while you work, keeping them covered with a damp towel to prevent drying out. Wontons may be carefully stored in plastic freezer bags and frozen for future use.
6. Boil wontons 5 minutes before adding to broth to be heated up as soup.

Approx. Calories 25 per wonton