Day 11 Challenge Task: Making Wanton for Dinner and Siew Mai for breakfast

Day 11 Challenge Task: Making Wanton for Dinner and Siew Mai for breakfast

I love cooking with Natalie. She is such a good helper and we really enjoy our bonding time, cooking together. Today, Natalie is helping me to prepare 2 meals with just 1 set of ingredients.

Our Siew Mai.

Our Wanton

All you need is: 

1) Minced meat

2) Prawns

3) Dried Mushrooms

4) Wanton skin

Separate the prawns into 2 bowls.

                                               Leave the prawn whole for making siew mai.

Cut the prawns into smaller pieces for making wanton.

                                 Simple Wanton Recipe

Soak the dried mushroom and cut them into cubes. 

Mix the small pieces of prawn, mushroom and meat together.

Crack an egg and pour the egg white into the meat. Leave the egg yolk in another bowl. You will need it to wrap the wanton later.

Add a little light soya sauce, abalone sauce (or oyster sauce) and a dash of pepper. And your meat is ready.

Scoop half a spoon of meat on to the wanton skin. 

Spread the egg yolk on the edge on 2 sides of the wanton skin.

Fold the skin into a triangle.

Press the sides together and make sure it sticks together.

It is ready. You can cook these in chicken soup or even fry it. Yummy. Can't wait to eat it. 

                               Simple Recipe for Siew Mai

Mix the meat with the whole small prawns into a small bowl. Add a little light soya sauce, abalone sauce (or oyster sauce) and a dash of pepper.

Wrap the meat up in wanton skin.

Shape it like Siew Mai and cut of the extra skin. 
If you need the skin to stick together, use the egg yolk.
I cut cubes of carrot to put it on top, just to make it look nicer.
 I place the Siew Mais into a plastic tray for Siew Mai and I am keeping it in the freezer and will steam it up for breakfast tomorrow.

Preparing 2 meals with just 1 set of ingredients makes cooking more efficient. Moreover, Natalie had great fun in the kitchen. This is so easy to make and only involves a pair of scissors to cut the prawns and mushrooms. After having fun preparing our wanton and Siew Mai, we simply can't wait to eat them up. Will post photos of our dish later.