- 1 small (3oz?) can water chestnuts, chopped
- 1/2lb uncooked shrimp, peeled, deveined, and chopped
- 1/4lb ground pork
- 3/4c chopped scallions
- 1.5tbsp soy sauce
- 1 lobe ginger, peeled and minced
- 1tsp sesame oil
- 1 pack of wonton wrappers
This is pretty basic. Mix together the ingredients. Put in wonton wrappers. Then comes the fun part: figure out how to cook them. The original recipe says to fry them in oil, then add water and cover, cooking until the water has evaporated. This method keeps really true to the name "pot sticker", but was not terribly successful for us. Frying worked pretty well, but the wrappers got a LITTLE overdone for me. They were tasty, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't really worth the effort.
Thoughts: Maybe next time I would get different wonton wrappers... or, I don't know, plan on having them in a soup. We never tried just cooking them in boiling water. That might have worked. Probably steaming (on lettuce leaves?) would be the way to go, but it was late, and we were tired.
Disaster Index: 3/10 - provisionally. If we cooked them differently (steaming?) it would probably be more like 1/10.
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