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Spicy prawn wontons, fried wontons, prawn potstickers

 

This recipe is designed to make fried and boiled or steamed wontons, plus potstickers.

 

250g raw prawns peeled and devained

1 pack wonton wrappers ( if making potstickers I use gow gee wrappers rather than wontons for the circle shape )

1 tablespoon chopped chives or spring onion

1 tablespoon sesame oil

White pepper to taste

1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste

1/4 cup shredded carrot optional ( I buy shredded carrot from coles or woollies, easy as just chop a bit smaller )

1 teaspoon cornflour

1 teaspoon grated ginger optional

 

Chop the prawns small then chop a little more until it looks kinda like mince, add to a bowl with the rest of the ingredients except the wonton wrappers and stir well. Let the prawn mix sit in the fridge for 20 minutes to relax a little before filling. I recommend watching you tube videos on how to fold the wontons. You can always just add a small teaspoon of filling baste the edges with water and fold in half for the easy option. Deep fry on 180 degrees for 4 minutes then drain on paper towel and season with salt. To make them more crunchy fry for 2 minutes, remove from the oil to cool for 5 minutes and then fry again for 2 minutes. The double fry method really does works well, serve with sweet chilli sauce.

 

To cook potstickers add oil to a fry pan and fry the potstickers on one side until you have nice colour, add 1/2 cup or so of water, place a lid on and steam for 5 minutes, or until the potstickers start to fry again, sometimes i add a little butter to the pan for extra flavour. Turn the heat off place the lid back on and allow to steam for a few more minutes to help the dumplings unstick then use an egg slide to remove from the pan. Serve immediately with the dipping sauce below.

 

Dipping sauce

( this is the exact same sauce I use for the spicy wontons , just pour over the top of boiled/steamed wontons or serve as a dipping sauce.

 

4 tablespoons soy sauce

1 tablespoon black viniger ( or white viniger )

1 tablespoon sesame oil

2 teaspoons or so of chilli oil ( you can leave this out if you like but it's just so good! )

Chopped spring onion

1 garlic clove grated

1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds

Mix all sauce ingredients together in a bowl.

 

 

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