2 simple and delicious ways to cook vegetarian wontons for a fasting breakfast

Prepare the Ingredients

Soak the shiitake mushrooms until they bloom, avoiding making them too soft. Peel the corn, remove the corn silk, wash it clean, and cut it into pieces. Peel the carrots and zucchini, and cut them into pieces.

Wash the scallions and cilantro, cut off the roots, and chop them finely. Mix the rice flour with 1 tablespoon of water to dissolve the flour evenly. Cut the tangerine in half and squeeze out the juice.

Make the Dumpling Filling

Chop the vegetarian pork, shiitake mushrooms, tofu, and green beans into small pieces.

Heat oil in a pan, add the scallions, and sauté until fragrant. Add all the ingredients and stir well with 10g of vegetarian seasoning and 10g of sugar until the ingredients are cooked and soft. Finally, add the cilantro to make the filling more aromatic.

Once the filling has cooled, use your hands to mash it until the ingredients are well combined and stick together.

Wrapping and boiling dumplings

You spread the rice flour on the edges of the dumpling skin, then place 1 teaspoon of filling in the center, fold it over and press tightly so that the dumpling does not burst when boiled.

Wrap the dumplings into a triangular shape, or any shape you like, so that the finished product is not only delicious but also visually appealing!

You boil water, add the tangerine juice, 10ml of cooking oil, then add the dumplings and cook for 1 minute. Prepare a bowl of cold ice water; when the dumplings are cooked, placing them in the water will help make them chewier and tastier.

Making the broth

You add corn and gourd into a pot of boiling water and cook the vegetables for 1 hour; simmering the vegetables for a long time will help the broth become sweeter!

After 1 hour, you take the gourd out, add carrots, and cook for another 20 minutes until the carrots are soft.

Season the broth with 10g of sugar, 10g of vegetarian seasoning, 10g of salt, and adjust according to your family’s taste. Finally, add green onions to complete.

Final Product

Place the wontons in a bowl, arrange the carrots and corn around for visual appeal, pour the broth over, sprinkle some cilantro on top, and enjoy.

The wontons are chewy and delicious, the filling is rich, and the broth is flavorful. Eating them with soy sauce and sliced chili is just perfect.

Prepare the ingredients

Wash the carrots and chives, then cut the carrots into bite-sized pieces (you can cut them into flower shapes for decoration). For the chives, cut them in half, separating the roots and the tops.

Divide the straw mushrooms into two parts, 100 grams cut in half for the broth, and 200 grams finely chopped for the filling.

Wash the white tofu and fried tofu skin, then blend them together until smooth.

Make the wonton filling

In a bowl, add 1 piece of white tofu and 1 piece of blended fried tofu skin, then add 200 grams of finely chopped straw mushrooms and mix well.

Next, season with 1 teaspoon of vegetarian seasoning, 2 teaspoons of sugar, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 1 teaspoon of vegetarian oyster sauce, and 2 tablespoons of tapioca flour (to bind the filling) and continue mixing the mixture well.

Wrapping and steaming the dumplings

You take the dumpling skin and add about half a spoonful of filling, then wrap it in your preferred shape, which can be triangular, pouch,…

After wrapping, prepare the steamer for about 10 minutes to complete.

Cooking the broth

You prepare a pot with about 500 ml of water, then add 100 gr of straw mushrooms, 100 gr of carrots, and 100 gr of chopped chives, and cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes.

When the water starts to boil, you season it with about 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of seasoning powder, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, and 1 tablespoon of vegetarian oyster sauce (seasoning can be adjusted according to family taste).

After the water boils completely, you continue to add the wontons and cook for another 2 minutes, then you can serve in a bowl and enjoy!

Finished product

The wontons have a sweet and clear broth, soft and chewy wontons with fragrant filling, dipped in a little spicy soy sauce are delicious for breakfast! Make this simple breakfast dish for the whole family right away!