Wonton dipping sauce, chinese dipping sauce, wonton sauces

Your wontons are beckoning to you but something is missing...the wonton dipping sauce. Quick! whip one up! Don't let the wontons wait too long!

I don't know about you but I like to dip my boiled wontons into a fragrant spicy dipping sauce before eating them. Fried wontons do well with a creamy dip or a tangy salsa too.

Here are a couple of recipes to get you started.

Szechwan wonton dipping sauce recipe No.1

Ingredients
2 tbsp chilli oil
1 tsp oyster sauce
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp soup stock
1 tsp fine sugar
1.5 tsp rice vinegar
pinch of szechuan peppercorn powder
1 tbsp chopped spring onion

Directions

Add the chilli oil, oyster sauce, soy sauce, soup stock, fine sugar and rice vinegar in a serving bowl. Stir vigorously to combine well

Place cooked wontons in the bowl

Sprinkle the szechuan peppercorn powder and chopped spring onion on top of the wontons before serving

Recipe link: Spicy dipping Sauce No.1

Szechwan wonton dipping sauce recipe No.2

Ingredients
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp chilli oil
sesame seed oil
chilli powder
1 tsp finely chopped spring onion
?tsp finely chopped garlic
1 tbsp coriander

Directions

Add the soy sauce, chilli oil, sesame seed oil & chilli powder together in a serving bowl. Stir vigorously to combine well

Place cooked wontons into the bowl

Garnish with spring onions, garlic and coriander on top before serving

Recipe link: Spicy dipping Sauce No.2

Sweet and sour dipping sauce

Ingredients
2 tbsp ketchup / tomato sauce
2 tbsp cider vinegar / white rice vinegar
2.5 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp cornstarch solution
1 tsp sesame seed oil

Directions

Mix the ketchup or tomato sauce, vinegar and sugar in a small sauce pan

Bring the mixture to a boil

Reduce the heat when the mixture starts to boil

Add the cornstarch solution to the mixture slowly to thicken the mixture. If you want, add one teaspoon at a time. Check the consistency. Stop adding when the consistency you want is achieved (the art of Chinese cooking)

Pour the sweet and sour mixture in a small dipping bowl

Add a little sesame seed oil before serving

Recipe link: Sweet and sour sauce

Chinese dipping sauce

Ingredients
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 tbsp finely chopped spring onion
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp cornstarch solution
1 tsp sesame seed oil

Directions

Mix the soy sauce, minced garlic and sugar and chopped spring onion in a little saucepan

Bring the mixture to a boil

Reduce the heat when the mixture starts to boil

Add the cornstarch solution to the mixture slowly to thicken the mixture. If you want, add one teaspoon at a time. Check the consistency. Stop adding when the consistency you want is achieved