California Farm Wonton Dinner Soup

Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
California, United States

This is a fun recipe, and delicious. The wontons and deep dark broth are made first, the 5 precooked meat and seafood ingredients are added with 5 different vegetables.
Your dinner friends will be impressed by the complexity and variety of all the fresh flavors.
In restaurants, this version is called Wor Wonton Soup or War Wonton Soup.

California Farm Wonton Dinner Soup

This is a fun recipe, and delicious. The wontons and deep dark broth are made first, the 5 precooked meat and seafood ingredients are added with 5 different vegetables.
Your dinner friends will be impressed by the complexity and variety of all the fresh flavors.
In restaurants, this version is called Wor Wonton Soup or War Wonton Soup.

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Ingredients

8 hr marinade, 1/2 hr wontons, 15 minute soup
4 full dinners
  1. 16wontons: (14 oz filling, 14 oz wonton wrappers, plus 1 large eggroll wrapper for leftover filling)
  2. 1/2 cupchopped shrimpmeat
  3. 1/2 cuppureed pork
  4. 1/2 cupChopped canned water chestnuts
  5. 16Wonton wrappers, purchased or made from scratch
  6. 1 TspRice wine or sherry wine
  7. 1beaten egg to close wonton wrappers
  8. 1 Tspcorn starch
  9. 1/2 Tspseasalt
  10. 1/2 TspSoy sauce
  11. THE SOUP MEATS:
  12. 16Wontons
  13. 1/2sliced chicken breast
  14. 1/2 cuppeeled, deveined shrimp
  15. 4 ouncecan clams
  16. 8 slicescold marinaded chinese pork tenderloin
  17. THE VEGETABLES:
  18. 2Black dried woodear mushrooms, soaked in boiling water and slivered 1/4” thick
  19. 1/2 cupBamboo shoots
  20. 1/4 cupWater chestnuts
  21. 1/2 cupfresh sugar Peapods, sliced
  22. 1/2 cupShredded napa cabbage or bok choy
  23. THE BROTH:
  24. 3 cupschicken broth
  25. Broth from cooked wontons and black mushrooms
  26. 1 TspSesame oil
  27. THE MARINADED GLAZED TENDERLOIN:
  28. 1small whole pork tenderloin, sliced lenghtwise
  29. 2 TbsThick sweet dark soy sauce
  30. 1 Tbshoney
  31. 1 TbsThin soy sauce
  32. 2 TbsKetchup
  33. 1 TbsPaprika
  34. 1 Tbscrushed garlic
  35. 1 TspGinger
  36. 1/2 bottlecooking wine to cover
  37. Tools: food processor, cast iron sauce pan, dutch oven, glass marinade dish, cast iron skillet
  38. Cost: shrimp $3, clams $2, pork $1, wrappers $2, cooking wine $2, 1/2 chicken breast $1, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, cabbage, peapods $4: spices $1, $4 per person

Cooking Instructions

8 hr marinade, 1/2 hr wontons, 15 minute soup
  1. 1

    Marinade the pork overnight: lay whole tenderloin in dish, add dark sweet soy sauce, light soysauce, ketchup, paprika, ginger, garlic and shallots, cover with cooking wine. Preheat oven to 375F degrees, bake 30 minutes, take tenderloin out. Pour marinade in sauce pan, thicken 20 minutes, brush glaze over tenderloin. Cool, slice 1/4” thick, use 2 slices per person in soup. Add to soup just before serving.

  2. 2

    Make the wontons. Make or buy the wrappers. Chop shrimp with pork, water chestnuts, corn starch, spices, soy sauce. Place 1/2 Tbs of mix in center of wrapper, fold into trangle and press closed. This is called folding samosa style.

  3. 3

    Fold tips together so they touch. Cover edges with beaten egg. Let dry. Put wontons and black mushrooms in skillet filled with boiling hot water, let sit 20 minutes. Save the broth.

  4. 4

    Roll leftover filling in large moistened eggroll wrapper, close ends, seal with beaten egg, add to skillet with other wontons. To be sliced and served with dinner soup on the side.

  5. 5

    Make and serve the soup: add 3 cups chicken bouillion to dutch oven, add broth from wontons, bring to boil, slice and add chicken, boil 5 minutes. Add wontons, bring to boil, skim the broth. Add bamboo shoots, water chest nuts, shredded cabbage, cut fresh sugar peapods, bring back to boil. Slice black mushrooms 1/4” thick in strips, add. Add shrimp, clams, marinaded sliced pork, sesame oil. Place large soup tureen on table to self serve family style. Garnish with chives.

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I teach people at the farmers market to grow small scale fruits and vegetables. My grandparents and parents taught me growing, cooking and preserving home grown fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and fish. I got certified by the University of California Master Gardener Program in 2005. I try to bring out the original flavor of ingredients, then add layers of spices, herbs and flavorings that enhance, not distort the taste. These are the global, organic and vegan family recipes we use.
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Comments (2)

Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
Thank you, Lee. My favorite special celebration dinner soup

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