HOMEMADE GLUTEN FREE WONTON SKINS

HOMEMADE GLUTEN FREE WONTON SKINS image

Categories Appetizer Wheat/Gluten-Free Phyllo/Puff Pastry Dough Pastry

Yield 16 dumplings

Number Of Ingredients 5

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Ingredients

1 cup Better Batter GF flour
1 egg
4 tbsp water (plus extra as needed)
extra flour for rolling
wet paper towels ripped in half

Steps:

Using either a stand or hand mixer, beat the flour and egg together. You'll know it's the right consistency when you pinch it between your thumb and pointer finger and it holds together, kind of like playdough. Be careful about not adding extra water unless absolutely necessary. Better to err on the side of too little, as you can add water as needed. I can't emphasize enough that you need to LIBERALLY use flour for the forming of your wontons. First, keep your rolling pin heavily floured every time you roll a wonton skin, using the same flour with which you made your dough. Though I own a wooden rolling pin, I'll bet that the new silicon non-stick rolling pins would be excellent for making these wontons. Remove dough from mixing bowl and knead into one large symmetrical shape. Make sure your kneading surface remains constantly well-floured. Divide your shape into four pieces. Set three of them aside, underneath a wet paper towel or tea towel. NOTE: I used a silicon baking mat as the surface on which I kneaded and rolled my wontons. It was an ideal surface. Take one of the dough pieces and roll into a snake. Evenly divide the snake into four pieces. Lay three of the four pieces under the wet paper towel to keep moist. Under your wet paper towel you should have three of the original larger dough pieces and three of the smaller dough pieces. Take the remaining dough piece and use your hand to flatten it into as much of a square as you can. It never really got totally square-shaped, as the edges were a bit ragged. Sprinkle the top of your square with flour. Roll it as thin as you can without breaking the dough. Flour the top of a thin metal spatula, then use it to carefully remove the finished wonton skin to a plate that has a piece of wet paper towel on it. Cover the wonton with another piece of wet paper towel. Continue until you have 16 wonton skins.