A Wednesday Recipe - Mushroom Steamed Wontons

What do recipes have to do with hypnosis? Much. A lot of hypnosis deals with developing healthy habits. And food can be a healthy habit. There are certain discussion that happen at the office that should build up stream and end in results, results such as one of us emailing someone something we talked about and someone else thought was interesting and wanted to be emailed it as well. That is what makes the idea of a blog so spectacular. Bag the email and just make a post (sometimes). I do not mean blab your personal story and private essentials, but tips on exercise, thoughts on books and the whole whatnot are worth sharing.

Often the items that need to be shared are recipes. It seems that there are many of us who are not fans of vegetables, but are wanna be vegetarians. So finding a decent recipe for something in this realm is something to write about (I know, I know for you veggie lovers out there there are plenty of good vegetable recipes). But this one I concocted more or less myself and thought I would post it here.

Mushroom Steamed Wontons
1 cup pureed fresh white button mushrooms (use a blender or food processor)
1 slice of bread - torn into pieces
1 tablespoons ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon crushed hot pepper flakes
1 tablespoons dried cilantro
1 sodium soy sauce
A pinch of anise seed
A pinch of ground cloves
A pinch of cinnamon
A pinch of white pepper
25 wonton wrappers
Extra soy sauce for dipping

Materials:
Bamboo steamers
Wok
Parchment Paper

In a blender or food processor, with the pureed mushrooms, blend in the bread and all the remaining ingredients except for the wonton wrappers and extra soy sauce. Once everything is blended, on a medium setting, heat the mixture in a small pot to help reduce some of the liquidity (about five minutes - constantly stirring).

Prepare the wonton wrappers.

Take the first one, brush a little warm water along the sides of it. Put a teaspoon of the mushroom mixture in the center of the wonton. Carefully fold the wonton in half and seal the edges together with your fingers. Do this process for each one.

Place parchment paper on the bottom of a bamboo steamer and place a layer of wontons upon it. Use another steamer to put the rest on (I only used two for this many). Then steam them using your wok. Put an inch of so of water on the bottom of the wok, bring to boil, and place steamers in the wok - water should not be high enough to touch the bottom food layer.

Let them steam for 20 minutes.

These are really good dipped in soy sauce.