Wonton soup surprise!!!

Last week I made the decision to make wonton soup from my Thailand cook book. The thought process behind it;

1) fun to make wontons with kids

2) family loves prawns

3) healthy

4) I have rice paper wrappers in the freezer.

5) looks easy!

Ok mistake number 1.... It's not easy! Oh actually it would be easy if I had not made mistake number 2... Using thin rice paper wrappers normally used for dimsum rather than pastry wonton wrappers.... Doh!

Now if I were making the wontons alone it would be so fast, but I had 2 helpers who loved making the little parcels, and as well as testing my patience it took twice as long as it should.

Now I have learnt the hard way that if you place wontons made with rice paper into boiling water to cook they explode. Sigh. So out of my lovely plate full only 4 managed to remain in tact, 1 each, lucky hey!

The soup itself is made using very simple ingredients, Chinese cabbage, beansprouts, soy sauce and stock. You then cook king prawns at last minute and add the wontons.

Now why is this post called wonton soup surprise I hear you ask? Well surprise number 1 was exploding wontons and surprise number 2 is when I tasted the soup I thought "oh dear.... It's just cabbage water", and I was prepared for the kids to spit it back at me, baked beans were on stand by. Imagine my surprise when they ate every drop, and the old man had seconds! You see each component on its own was nothing great, pretty tasteless. But together, it was so moorish.

So yes, this is another one I will make again, but next time I'll buy the correct wrappers.