Ingredients:
- 150 g minced meat
- 20 pieces round wanton skin
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 pieces Shiitake mushrooms
- 1 piece 2-inch carrot
- 1 stalk of green onion
- 1 small bunch of coriander
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper powder
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp shaoxing cooking wine
- 1 tbsp wheat flour
- 1 tsp cornflour mixed with 2 tbsp water (for sealing)
- Cooking oil
- 20 strands of green onion
- Chop the garlic.
- Soak the Shiitake mushroom. Chop them up when they have softened.
- Chop the carrot.
- Cut the green onion into small pieces.
- Chop up the coriander.
- Add the minced meat to a mixing bowl.
- Add the wheat flour to the meat.
- Add the garlic, mushrooms, carrot, green onion and coriander to the mixing bowl.
- Mix the ingredients up till they are evenly combined.
- Add the seasonings - salt, pepper powder, sesame oil and shaoxing cooking wine to the bowl.
- Mix so that the seasonings are incorporated into the meat mixture.
- Grease a plate and set it aside.
- Take a piece of wanton skin and put it on your palm.
- Take a spoonful of meat mixture and put it in the centre of the wanton skin.
- Dip your finger into the corn flour mixture. Run it on the wanton skin (about 1.5 cm from the edge) outside the meat
- Gather the side of the wanton skin where you have applied the corn flour mixture and press them so that they stick.
- Place it on the greased plate.
- Repeat until all meat and wanton skin are used up.
- Heat up the cooking oil in a wok.
- When the oil is hot, put the money bags in gently one by one.
- Use the spatula to turn them gently so that all sides are fried.
- Dish out the money bags once they turn golden brown onto a kitchen towel to soak out excess oil.
- Boil a pot of water and blanch the 20 strands of green onion.
- Use these strands to tie a ribbon round the money bags.
- Serve while hot.