recipe: french onion soup dumplings

i had leftovers from making French Onion Soup earlier in the week, and this French Onion Soup Dumpling recipe from seriouseats.com seemed like a perfect fit for them. i made these as a lil (heavy) app to tonight's sunday night din.

ingredients list:
- 1.5 cups leftover french onion soup onions, drained (if you don't have fresh-made onions avail, serious eats has a cheater recipe for them available on the site)
- 10-15 wonton wrappers
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (you should probably use all gruyere technically, but i had a gruyere shortage and was too cheap to buy more : )
- 1/2 cup shredded gruyere cheese
- 1/4 cup shaved parmesan cheese (optional)
- 1-2 pats of butter, chopped
- fresh chives for garnish

to make: spray a glass pie dish with non-stick cooking spray. one-by-one, moisten a wonton wrapper using your finger or a basting brush, then place about 1 tsp of FOS onions in the middle. bundle the corners of the wrapper together so they form a little bundle, wrap up into a mini-dumpling shape, and place seam-side down into the prepared baking dish. continue until the baking dish is full of the little dumpling bundles. sprinkle mozz & gruyere cheeses to top of the dumplings, and drop butter pats on top. broil for about 5 minutes, until cheese & nice & golden, and then sprinkle with shaved parmesan cheese. serve!

verdict: yummy. cheesey & oniony... can't really go wrong. the one thing i would change if i made these again would be to crisp up the dumplings first by baking for 10 minutes or so BEFORE adding the cheese and broiling them... that way they are able to maintain a little bit of their own form. the way they stand now, serving them with toothpicks would be impossible b/c the gooopy cheese would be too difficult/stong to pick up with the soft dumpling. taste tho... delish. maybe... 5.5 *****~ overall.