Recipe: Hot Chocolate-Banana Wontons With Mango Sauce, Hot Crispy Wontons Stuffed with Chocolate and Bananas

Hot Chocolate-Banana Wontons With Mango Sauce
Source: Just a Bite by Gale Gand - CBS News
Makes 24

You'll need a deep frying therometer

Ingredients For The Mango Sauce (optional)
1 ripe mango, peeled, seeded, and cut up
Freshly squeezed juice of 1 lime
1 tablespoon or more sugar
1/4 cup pineapple juice

Ingredients For The Wontons
8 ounces milk chocolate (chocolate bars are fine)
2 bananas, peeled and cut into 12 pieces each
24 wonton wrappers
vegetable oil
Confectioner's sugar, for serving

Make The Sauce:
Combine all the ingredients in a blender or food processor and puree until smooth. Strain into a serving bowl. Taste for sweetness, adding more sugar a teaspoon at a time as needed. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Make The Wontons:
Break or cut the milk chocolate into 24 reasonably equal pieces. Use your hands to smooth out and round off any jagged edges or sharp corners, so they will not poke through the wonton skins.

Lay the wonton skins out on a work surface at an angle, so they look diamond-shaped instead of square. Lay the slice of a banana and a piece of chocolate in the lower half of each diamond. Paint around the edges of one wonton skin with water and fold the top point down to meet the bottom, forming a triangle.

Gently press the edges together, trying to press out any air, and pinch the edges to seal. Place on a plate and repeat with the remaining ingredients. If not serving immediately, cover tightly with plastic wrap to prevent them from drying out. (The recipe can be made up to this point and refrigeratred for up to 10 hours.)

When ready to serve, heat the oil in a deep-fryer or 2 inches of oil in a heavy saucepan to 365-degrees. Put a thick layer of paper towels next to the pot or on a sheet pan. Six at a time, drop the wontons in the oil and fry until golden brown, turning occasionally.

Fish them out and drain on paper towels while you fry the rest. Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar and divide on serving plates. Serve with individual bowls for mango sauce for dipping.

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Hot Crispy Wontons Stuffed with Chocolate and Bananas

2 milk chocolate candy bars
16 wonton skins
2 bananas, sliced
1 pint vanilla ice cream
1/2 cup cinnamon sugar
4 cups vegetable oil

The day before you plan to make this recipe, leave the milk chocolate in a warm place to make it slightly pliable. Cut each bar into 8 chunks and, with your hands, try to form each chunk into a disk the size of a quarter with no sharp edges. Lay the wonton skins out on a surface and 1 at a time; paint the edges with water. In the center of the wonton skin, place a disk of milk chocolate and a banana slice on top of the chocolate. Fold the wonton skin corner to corner to make a triangle and press together well to seal completely. Cover with plastic wrap and store chilled until ready to fry and serve, up to 10 hours ahead.

Heat the oil in a deep pot to 350 degrees. Drop the wontons into the oil, being careful not to crowd them (you may have to work in batches) and fry, turning often, until golden brown. Meanwhile, place the cinnamon sugar in a bowl. Remove the wontons with a slotted spoon and immediately dredge them in the cinnamon sugar to coat heavily. Serve right away with scoops of vanilla ice cream.

Yield: 4 servings
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes