This is a great recipe for a healthy and wholesome meal. It is a complete meal on
its own as it has food from all four food groups providing carbohydrates, protein,
fibre, vitamins and minerals and a little fat.
You can get creative with this recipe by modifying the filling according to your
child's preferences. It's a great way to get a child to eat vegetables as you can
'hide' it in the dumplings as blended vegetables.
Ingredients
• 150 g lean minced chicken or fish meat
• 1 small shallot
• 1 stalk spring onion
• 3 medium dried shitake mushrooms (soaked and diced into tiny pieces)
• 1 medium carrot shredded very thinly
• 1/2 tsp salt
• About 20 pieces fresh wonton skin (round shape)
• Plain flour for coating
Method
1. Blend shallots and spring onion together into a paste.
2. Mix well with meat, mushroom, carrot and salt, this will be the filling for the
dumplings.
3. Cut wonton skins into semi circles to yield about 40 pieces.
4. Place about 1 tsp of filling in the middle of a semi circle shaped wonton skin
and seal edges with a little water.
5. Coat wonton with a flour to prevent sticking.
6. Arrange each floured wonton apart from each other on a tray and freeze.
7. It usually takes about 10 minutes to freeze. After wontons are frozen solid,
store in a zip-loc bag.
Cooking Method
1. Drop desired number of frozen wontons into bioling water. When water biols again,
pour about 1/2 cup of tap water into the pot and when it starts to biol again, wontons
are usually ready.
2. Serve hot either 'dry' with a little canola or sesame oil to prevent sticking
or 'soup' with some chicken stock.