WON TON SOUP

WON TON SOUP

Preparation Time:  30 minutes

Serves: 4-5

Ingredients:

For the Won Ton

1.    Egg :1 nos.

2.    Plain flour:  2 cups

3.    Salt To taste

For the soup

1.    Chicken stock 3 3/4 cups

2.    Chicken, cooked and

           chopped into pieces

           1 cup

3.    Spring onion, for snipped

           green top :  A Few

4.    Spring onions, finely

Chopped :  2 nos

5.    Won ton: 8 nos.

6.    Egg, white: 1 nos.

7.    Prawns, peeled ; 1 cup

8.    Salt and pepper ; To taste

For the Won Ton wrappers

1. Sift the flour and salt into a bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the egg.

2. Using a wooden spoon, mix the flour into the egg and then add enough water

    to make a stiff dough.

3. Knead the dough with your hands.

4. Roll out the dough as thin as you can on a lightly floured board.

5. Cut into 4-5 cm squares and use these won tons for the soup.

For the soup

1. Put the stock in a large pan and bring slowly to a boil. Add salt and pepper.

2. Mix the chopped, prawns and the finely chopped spring onions.

3. Place some of this mixture on each won ton, moisten the edges with a little egg

    white, fold over and press edges well together.

4. Drop these won tons into the boiling stock and cook for 10 minutes.

5. Serve with snipped greens of spring onions.