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     Title:  Shrimp Won Ton
Categories: Seafood, Chinese
     Yield: 1 servings

   3/4 lb Medium shrimp (25 to 35 per
          -pound), shelled and
          -deveined
     1 ts Salt
   1/2 lb Pork butt, finely chopped
     1 ts Peeled, grated fresh ginger
     1 ts Sugar
       pn White pepper
     1 tb Light soy sauce
     1 tb Dry sherry or rice wine
     1 ts Asian sesame oil
     2 ts Cornstarch
     2    Green onions (white part
          -only), minced
     4    Water chestnuts, peeled and
          -finely chopped
     1    Package thin won ton skins

-----------------------INSTRUCTIONS-----------------------

 Coarsely chop shrimp into small pea-sized morsels.
 Toss with 1/2 teaspoon salt; set aside for 10 minutes.
 Combine pork, ginger, sugar, pepper, soy sauce,
 sherry, sesame oil, cornstarch, green onions, water
 chestnuts and remain- ing salt. Add to shrimp; mix
 well. Work with 1 won ton at a time; keep the
 remaining skins covered with a damp towel. Place a
 wrapper flat in your palm with a corner pointing away
 from you and a corner pointing at you. Put about 1
 heaping teaspoon fill- ing in the top corner (a little
 way down from the point). Fold the point toward you
 over filling. Tucking in filling, roll corner over
 toward the center of the wrapper. The won ton should
 look like a triangle. Pinch around filling to contain
 it. Place won ton on a work surface, Using both hands,
 grasp the 2 op- posite. corners of the won ton and
 pull them up over filling, overlapping them a bit.
 Moisten overlapped edges with water; pinch to seal.
 Set on a baking sheet and cover with a cloth. Repeat
 with remaining ingredients. The dumplings are now
 ready for boiling. Or freeze them; they'll keep for
 several months. Makes about 5 dozen won tons. PER 6
 WONTONS: 160 calories, 13 g protein, 14 g carbohy-
 drate, 5 g fat (2 g saturated), 80 mg cholesterol, 451
 mg sodium, 0 g fiber. Joyce Jue writing in the San
 Francisco Chronicle, 3/17/93.

 Submitted By STEPHEN CEIDEBURG   MSG#: 1980

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