Easy Homemade Wonton Soup Recipe (Chinese Takeout Style)

Easy Homemade Wonton Soup Recipe (Chinese Takeout Style) with hand folded pork wontons floating in a clean ginger garlic chicken broth. Make ahead friendly, freezer friendly, better than takeout every time.

Course Appetizer, Main Course, Soup

Cuisine Chinese

Keyword Wonton soup recipe

Prep Time 1

Cook Time 14

Servings servings

Calories 319kcal

Author Jason Decker

Ingredients

For the wontons

1/2 pound ground pork
2 scallions thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic minced
1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
2 teaspoons soy sauce
1 & 1/2 teaspoons rice vinegar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
1/4 teaspoon white pepper or black pepper
12 ounce package wonton wrappers

For the soup

10 cups unsalted chicken stock
1 inch piece fresh ginger thinly sliced
6 whole cloves garlic peeled
4 scallions
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons kosher salt
pinch white pepper
thinly sliced scallions to serve

Instructions

Mix the pork, scallion, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, rice vinegar, cornstarch, sesame oil, and white pepper in a medium-sized bowl until combined.
Place a wonton wrapper onto a clean work surface. Place 1 teaspoon of the filling in the center. Dip a fingertip into water and run it along the edges of the wrapper. Fold a pointy end over the filling and secure the edges. Press out any air. You will now have a triangle.
Make a little indention at the bottom of the wrapper. Run a little water on each of the bottom points of the triangle. Bring the points together and secure them by pressing the edges together firmly with your fingers. Refer to the visual tutorial for clarification.
Repeat with the remaining filling and wrappers. Place on a sheet tray covered with a clean kitchen towel while you work on making the wontons so they don’t dry out.
In a large pot over medium heat, add the chicken stock, ginger, garlic, scallions, soy sauce, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce to low, and simmer for 10 minutes.
Discard the solids out of the soup and keep warm.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add as many wontons as you are about to consume to the boiling water. Boil for 4 minutes. They will start to float.
Take the cooked wontons out of the water with a slotted spoon and place them into your serving bowl. Top with some of the soup and add more scallions. Serve immediately.

Notes

This makes a large batch, but you can easily double it to feed more or halve the recipe as needed.
The wontons can be boiled in the broth, see my tips above on that.
The broth and wontons can both be frozen, see my tips above on how to store.
Black pepper can be used in place of white pepper.
Instead of ground pork, you can use ground turkey or ground chicken.
You can add vegetables to the soup, see which I recommend above.
Makes 46 wontons.

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