I must admit, you may notice a trend in my post for the next little while. When winter rolls around I crave soups of all kinds. I try and be as creative as possible making different stews, bisques, or good old chicken soup. For the first post of the new year I decided to do a won ton soup.
The recipe for me really started about a week ago when I decided to by a whole chicken to roast. While roasting the beast I realized that there are many meals that I can pull out of this chicken. First I roasted it and pulled the legs off for my first meal. Then I carved off the breast and made chicken salad for my lunches the next two days and saved some to put in soup. I took the rest of the chicken, mostly bones, and I made a big pot of stock. After making two different soups I have taken the last of my stock and tonight made one of my favorite soups: Won Ton soup. For about 9 dollars I made roughly 12 meals, with sides, out of this one chicken. Now that is pretty cost effective I would say. Well, I am hooked. Expect more soups to come :)
I have made one adjustment to a normal won ton and that is changing out the ground pork for ground turkey to make it a little healthier. Enjoy!
Won Ton Broth
6 cups chicken broth
1 tsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp ginger root minced
2 cloves garlic minced
1/4 cup scallions chopped
Directions
1. Over medium heat in the pot for the broth saute oil, ginger, garlic, and scallions together for 2 minutes or until the ingredients give off an aroma.
2. Add broth and simmer on low heat for 20 minutes while make the won tons.
Won Ton Ingredients
Won Ton Papers
2 cups ground turkey
1 1/2 tbsp minced ginger root
1/8 cup scallions chopped
3 cloved of garlic minced
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp hoisin sauce
1 egg yolk
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
Directions
1. Place ground turkey, ginger, scallions, garlic in a bowl and mix until combined.
2. Add soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and egg yolk to mixture and mix thoroughly.
3. Add salt and pepper and combine.
4. To form the won tons place one wrapper in from on a level surface.
5. Wet the edges lightly with water by dipping your fingers into water and running it along the edges.
6. Place about roughly 1 tsp of filling into the center on the won ton wrapper.
7. Pull the won ton wrapper over the filling so the opposite corner is matching up.
8. Press the edges together firmly
9. Pull the two ends together and meat with a dab of water.
The method is the same for these dumplings as they are in my post on Pelmini if you need a better visual.
Add any veggies you would like to the soup to make sure you are getting a well balanced meal. We chose one of my favorite baby bok choy!
The Chia seed is one of the most interesting and obscure foods I have come across. They are little tiny seeds that look like they are little black sesame seeds or even like they are little rocks. These seeds don't seem to have much flavor but what they do with water is amazing. Each one of the seeds has a thin translucent membrane that allows water to pass through. The seeds suck up the water into the membrane and become sticky. It is almost like they transform in to tiny tapioca balls. They are very high in Omega-3, fiber, calcium, magnesium, and protein. You can put the chia seeds into juice and watch them plum up. Or my favorite thing to do is make a wonderful dairy free coconut pudding or yogurt. These wonderful chia seeds can be found at Haggen or the coop.
