Classic French onion soup with rabbit and black wood fungus won tons recipe

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Cuisine: French
Servings: Serves 8
Cooking Time: More than 1 hour
Course: Main

Ingredients

2 litres veal stock
1kg brown onions, sliced
150ml red wine
50g butter
150ml Noilly Prat vermouth
sea salt, to taste
sugar, to taste
Tabasco, to taste

Won tons
32 x won ton pastry sheets
480g minced farmed large white rabbit meat x 480 gram nett weight
80g dried black wood fungus (rehydrated in boiling water for 45 minutes and finely diced)
40g cornflour
1 egg
10g ginger, finely chopped
10g garlic, finely chopped
10g spring onions, finely chopped
30ml fish sauce
30ml sesame oil
3 dessertspoons shallots

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Preparation

Using a four-litre pot, heat the butter until it starts to brown slightly over a medium to high flame, then add the onions and sauté till translucent.

Add the red wine to deglaze and keep on the heat until wine is evaporated, and then add the vermouth, reduce by half and add the veal stock.

Simmer for 1 hour, taste before you add any seasoning, then season with salt first (brings out the flavour), then sugar (makes the flavour richer, but not too sweet) and Tabasco last (it makes the flavour long and persist in the mouth, but should not taste hot and spicy).

To make the won tons, mix all the ingredients together except for the won ton wrappers. This is for the rabbit mixture for the won tons.

Place 25g of the rabbit mixture in a won ton, envelope it by folding it into a triangle and then gather the east and west points of the triangle and squash them towards the northern point and press together to seal in the rabbit mixture. Cook it in boiling water for approximately 4 minutes until it floats on to the top, remove from the water and taste to see if seasoning is correct. You may need to add some salt if the flavour seems a little bland.

Make 4 won tons per serve and cook in boiling water to order

Heat the onion broth and place in a 300mm shallow soup bowl, place the cooked won tons in and garnish with a fried crouton with grilled gruyere on top.

For garnishing, toast some sourdough croutons with gruyere cheese on top.

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