I am a big fan of wontons! Wonton noodles, wonton soup, fried wonton,... you name it I love it. I love the fact that someone came up with the idea of packing meat or seafood or a combination of the two in a doughy pocket and cooking them in unison:)
So I tried making prawn wontons because my flatmate is a big fan of them. I bought some chicken to make a combination of steamed chicken and prawn dumplings (which you will see in the next post). The balance prawns were used to make this tasty treats.
I couldn't be bothered looking up recipes on how to make wontons so I experimented with lots of soy sauce, oyster sauce and many other ingredients... But my favourite ingredient in all of this was SESAME OIL! Yes! Sesame oil is the key ingredient in this dish. Not only does the dish have a nutty fragrance, it tasted delicious. The prawns were pre-cooked and that is something I have never been a fan of. If the prawns were raw, the dish would have had a sweetness to it and it would have absorbed more of the flavours created by the other sauces I threw in.
Personally, I think throwing in some chopped spring onions and water chesnuts (like the wontons back at home) would have given a distinct aroma and also an extra crunch to the wontons. But with no water chesnuts in sight, one can only imagine the crunch as they bite on the wontons to make up for the absence.
Packing the wontons! I had a blast doing this. Spooning the ingredients onto the wonton pastry, wetting the square edges and folding them into little balls were fun to do. I prefer dropping the wontons into a pot of boiling water but today I decided to just fry them and I don't regret my decision:)
An amazing appetizer/snack to have before eating and it rates an 8.7/10 :)
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