Vegan Wonton soup with a tomato (soup) base is a warm and filling soup with tofu filling in vegan wonton wrappers. This is loaded with vegetables and tofu with ground turmeric.
Store-bought frozen wontons are not vegan. So I did it from scratch using vegan wonton wrappers. Usually, the wonton wrappers have a yellow color filling, so I used turmeric in the tofu.
Food for the thought
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett
Benefits of the ingredients (Source)
Tofu: Tofu is rich in calcium and vitamin D. It provides a good source of protein.
Bell peppers: Bell Pepper’s health benefits include maintaining eye health, boosting the immune system, and fight inflammation.
Variations
Broth: You can use vegetable stock or store-bought soups for your base.
Vegetables: You can use a wide range of vegetables as per your taste from cabbage, bok choy, baby corn, mushroom, …
Wonton filling: You can use only vegetables. For protein, I added tofu. For an easy option, you can use frozen dumplings.
Noodles: You can skip this.
Simple Tomato soup (broth)
To make a simple tomato-based soup. Boil tomatoes add spices, onion, and potato. Boil together. Blend to a puree and use it. I added beet and carrot for color. Potatoes help to get a thick and silky consistency for the soup. Spices have to be removed before grinding.
Can I meal-prep Wonton soup?
Yes, this is the best soup to meal prep. If you are preparing Wontons at home prepare ahead and freeze them. You can store tomato soup in the refrigerator for a week.
Using Homemade Vegetable stock
You can use vegetable stock instead of tomato-based soup. Homemade vegetable stock will have more flavor and guaranteed fresh.
How to make quick wonton soup?
Use store-bought tomato soup. Dilute with water and bring to heat and add the frozen vegetable dumplings. Cook until dumplings floats. If needed, add any vegetable of your choice. Using frozen/store-bought saves a ton of time.
Vegan Wonton Soup With Tomato
Ingredients
For Noodles
- 1 block Ramen noodles
- 2 tsp oil
- salt to taste
For Vegetable
- 4 arthichoke frozen or fresh
For Tomato soup(broth)
- 3 tomatoes
- 1 onion chopped roughly
- 1 potato chopped roughly
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1/2 cup carrot, beet roughly chopped
- peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon, cardamon few
- 1 leaf bay leaf
- salt and pepper to taste
For Wonton filling
- Wonton wrappers
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp garlic chopped
- 1/2 cup scrambled tofu
- 1/4 cup cabbage chopped
- 1/4 cup mixed coclor bell peppers chopped
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- sriracha as per spice level
- 1 tsp ground turmeric
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
For noodles
- Boil the water and add noodles, salt, and oil. Once it's cooked 3/4 th remove and drain it in a strainer. Add a tsp of oil to remove stickiness and keep aside.
For vegetable
- In boiling water add artichoke and salt. Once cooked drain and keep aside.
For tomato soup(broth)
- In the stock pot, add water to boil. Once boiling, add tomatoes, onions, carrot, beet, garlic, peppercorns, cinnamon, cloves, cardamon, bay leaf, and salt to taste.
- Cover and cook until the vegetables are soft. Switch off and allow it to cool.
- Remove the spices, and blend the vegetables to puree. Strain if needed and keep aside.
For wonton
- On a medium heated pan, add olive oil, chopped garlic. Fry for a few seconds. Add colored bell peppers, cabbage, and scrambled tofu. Fry on high heat.
- Add soy sauce, sriracha, turmeric powder, salt, and pepper to taste. Stir to combine well and fry on high heat for 2 minutes. Switch it off.
Shaping Wontons
- Fill a small bowl with water. Keep the tofu in a bowl. Take wonton wrappers one by one or keep themt in a damp towel. This keep the wonton wrappersfresh and easy to shape.
- Apply water on all the sides of the wrapper and keep the filling in the middle.
- Fold the wonton in half, creating a triangle, and seal the edges by pressing them with your fingers. Bring the bottom corners to finish the fold. Repeat for the other wontons. I prepared 14 wontons.
Cooking Wontons
- In an Instant pot or stockpot bring the tomato soup to heat. Add the wontons and cook wontons float on top. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Serving the wonton soup
- In the serving bowl add the wontons with soup, artichoke, and noodles. Serve with roasted sesame seeds on top.
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