Sichuanese wontons in chilli oil sauce (Hong you chao shou) from Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking (page 292) by Fuchsia Dunlop

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    Can substitute light or tamari soy sauce and caster sugar for the book's "Sweet aromatic soy sauce" specified in this recipe, and cassia bark for cinnamon sticks

  • dmdmdmmm on February 18, 2026

    I had these with some soy sauce and black vinegar instead bc I cant handle spice. All in all still was very tasty!!!!

  • Happykikkers on October 09, 2024

    Loved these. Were super easy to come together. Doubled the recipe but somehow still needed the original amount of wrappers. My only complaint is that my filling was very wet. I made sure the filling going into the wonton was not super wet and it worked out nicely.

  • Ro_ on May 07, 2023

    The list of ingredients in my book is different - no star anise, Sichuan peppercorns or fennel seeds. These came out really nicely, the dumplings were comforting and the spicy sauce was a lovely complement.

  • rionafaith on October 16, 2016

    p. 292 -- My grocery store was out of ground pork so I used ground chicken, and I doubled the recipe because I wasn't about to deal with this half an egg nonsense (really?), but otherwise made as written. Definitely take the time to make the sweet aromatic soy, it totally made the sauce. Assembling the wontons is not that hard -- even my BF got the hang of it after a few tries, and he is really not very good at that kind of thing, so if he can do it you can too. Possible error: the actual recipe states to put 1 tsp of filling in each wonton wrapper, but on the next page with the photos illustrating the technique the text says 1 TBSP... I put somewhere in between, a full tbsp was overflowing and hard to wrap but a tsp didn't really seem like enough. Whatever! The boiling method is a bit odd, she has you keep adding cold water to the pot and then bringing back to a boil, which I thought was weird, but it worked fine. We totally devoured these.

  • raybun on October 02, 2016

    I doubled the recipe for 2 adults and a hungry 9 yr old, served as a main meal. From start to finish they took me less than 45 to make and shape, quicker than delivery where I live and the flavour is so superior. You can easily adapt the filling with other spices and herbs. I used a little dumpling press thing I got on Amazon for a couple of bucks that made the job even easier. 5* *just noticed the ingredient list on EYB and the ingredients in the online recipe link are not the same!

  • Delys77 on March 05, 2013

    Pg. 292 The dumplings were a bit hard to put together, but that is because I'm all thumbs. I ended up going with her suggestion of just doing a ravioli style triangle and it was perfect. Filling is very nice, cooking technique is fun, and the sauce is a perfect match. Put it all together and these are delicious.

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