Sichuan / Chinese Restaurant Recipe
Red Oil Wontons
Red oil wontons are boiled wontons served in a spicy, sweet, savory chile-oil sauce with garlic and vinegar.
Recipe at a glance
| Purpose | Additional Chinese restaurant menu recipe family |
| Cuisine or format | Sichuan / Chinese Restaurant |
| Consolidation rule | Closely related menu names are treated as one recipe family when the sauce, technique, or format is the same. |
Ingredients
- 24 wonton wrappers
- 8 oz pork, shrimp, chicken, or vegetable filling
- 1 tablespoon light soy sauce for filling
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 3 tablespoons chile oil
- 1 tablespoon light soy sauce for sauce
- 1 tablespoon black vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- Scallions
Method
- Mix filling with soy sauce and ginger.
- Fill and seal wontons.
- Boil wontons until cooked.
- Mix chile oil, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, garlic, and a little hot cooking water.
- Place wontons in bowls.
- Spoon sauce over them.
- Finish with scallions.
Variations and substitutions
- Adjust protein, vegetables, and heat level only when the core technique and sauce remain recognizable.
- For allergies or religious dietary needs, check sauces, broth, wrappers, cooking wine, nuts, sesame, shellfish, and shared wok or fryer use.
- For restaurant-style versions, texture matters as much as flavor: fried items should stay crisp, noodles should not become mushy, and sauces should coat rather than flood the dish.