Fried Pumpkin Wontons

Fried pumpkin wontons made from flour, ginger, green onions, mirin and more to give you a tasty appetizer

COOK TIME
20

minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon warm water
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• For dusting and rolling wrappers corn starch
• 6 cloves minced garlic
• 1 1-inch piece of ginger, minced
• 6-8 green onions
• 2 cups cooked pumpkin
• 1 tablespoon arame seaweed, soaked
• 2 tablespoons miso paste
• 1/4 cup mirin
• 2 teaspoons sesame oil
• As needed juice of 1 lemon
• As needed for cooking/frying neutral oil like grapeseed, safflower, or other veggie oil
• To taste salt

Preparation

• 1 Mix flour and salt together, then add water and work it into a dough, kneading for a minute or two until it’s smooth. Form the dough into a ball and let it rest for at least 30 minutes.
• 2 Heat 2 Tablespoons oil over medium high heat and toss in the green onion, garlic and ginger. Sauté for a minute or until very fragrant.
• 3 Add chopped, cooked pumpkin to the pan and cook, smashing pumpkin down and breaking apart big chunks with a spoon or spatula.
• 4 Add the miso, mirin and arame seaweed to the pumpkin. Taste and add more salt if needed.
• 5 Set the filling aside to cool and then make your wrappers.
• 6 Take the dough and separate it into two pieces. Flour your work surface with corn starch and form the dough into a rectangular loaf shape. This will make it easier to roll it out into a sort of square shape. Using a rolling pin, wine bottle or pasta roller, roll the dough out as thin as you can get it without it breaking. Then cut it into square-ish shapes and fill each square with a dollop of filling. Wet the edges of the wonton wrapper and pinch and seal.
• 7 Heat about 3 inches of safflower, peanut, grapeseed or other neautral, high heat oil to 350 degrees F. When the oil is hot, carefully drop in the wontons one at a time. Make sure you leave enough room for them to float around. Turn them so they get brown on all sides, then remove with a slotted spoon or spider to a cooling rack placed over a cookie sheet. Keep going until all the wontons are fried.
• 8 Serve the wontons hot with soy sauce or ponzu sauce.