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Spinach and Pasta Wontons From "Ask DIY Cooking & Entertaining" episode DADC-208

It's important to have flavorful vegetarian recipes on hand for when your vegetarian guests come over. There is a vegetarian dish that has a lot of flavor from fresh ingredients like ginger and garlic...and the aroma is incredible. It's called Spinach and Pasta filled Wontons with Ginger Garlic Broth.

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Spinach and Pasta filled Wontons with Ginger Garlic Broth

Note: Serves 6

Broth

Ingredients:
1 qt. water
1 qt. vegetable broth
1-2" piece of ginger-peeled and sliced thin
5 cloves of garlic-minced
2 tsp. kosher salt
Sprigs of cilantro

1. Combine all ingredients and bring to a boil in a four qt. sauce pan.

2. Simmer and cook for 45 minutes.

3. Strain into another pan.

4. Adjust seasoning.

Wontons

Ingredients:
Fresh spinach-washed and stemmed and squeezed dry
1 Tbs. peanut oil
1/2 cup green onions-chopped
3/4 tsp. minced ginger
1/2 vermicelli pasta-cooked and diced
2 tsp. sesame seeds
2 tsp. dry sherry
1 pkg. won ton wrappers
1 egg beaten
3 tsp. cilantro chopped

1. In a skillet or wok, heat the oil and saute the green onions, garlic and ginger for two minutes. Add the sesame seeds, the pasta and the spinach. Add sherry.

2. Cook for five minutes to allow moisture to evaporate. Remove from the heat and add the cilantro.

3. Check for seasoning and allow mixture to cool. Brush wonton skin with beaten egg.

4. Place teaspoon or two in the center of each wonton and fold diagonally to make a triangle. Take the two ends of the triangle and join tips together and seal tips together.

5. Place wontons on a cookie sheet dusted with corn meal.

6. Place filled wontons in freezer until ready to cook.

7. Bring the broth back to the boil and place wontons into simmering broth.

8. Allow to cook five minutes. Serve!