Thai Shrimp Wontons

Steps

• 1

  In a food processor, make a very fine paste from the garlic, ginger, lemongrass, chiles, shallot, and some fish or soy sauce. Use a little bit of vegetable oil to help it become a nice fine paste.
• 2

  Cut up the shrimp into a small dice and mix with the paste.
• 3

  Measure out the shrimp mixture into the wontons and fold them up into little pockets. You can do traditional style wontons, but for these thai syle wontons, I like to fold them up with the top of the shrimp mixture exposed. To do this, place some of the mixture in the center and fold the sides up to form a square. Next bring in the corners to tightly wrap the mixture, still leaving the top open. This is a tricky maneuver, but it becomes easy after you do the first 5 or so.
• 4

  Steam the wontons.
• 5

  Mix the coconut milk, sambal, chopped scallions, cilantro, luice from the lime, and some fish or soy sauce over low heat.
• 6

  Serve the wontons with the coconut dipping sauce.