Chinese Dumpling Recipe - How to Make Dumplings in 7 Easy Steps
Dumpling (jiǎo zi) is unarguably the most popular and highest-profile Chinese dish, with very good reasons: firstly, making and eating dumplings is an important activity for families on traditional Chinese festivals like New Year's Eve of Spring Festival and Winter Solstice, especially for those in northern China. Secondly, somehow the Chinese dumpling has become a work of art, thanks to the constantly innovate and develop in the making method. Dumplings are made into cute little animals, leaves, flowers… Xian Dumpling Banquet just offers this kind of artistic dumplings! Thirdly and most importantly, dumpling is easy to make, simple food yet delicious, and favored by both Chinese and Westerns!
How to make dumplings? It takes a few steps to whip up using dumpling wrappers, and some basic ingredients and food materials you likely already have in your kitchen. This Chinese dumpling recipe can be used for making pork dumplings, beef dumplings, or vegan dumplings like potato dumplings.
Follow the 7 steps to make authentic Chinese dumplings at home:
Step 1 Prepare the ingredients and seasonings
1) 250 g all purpose flour, 150 ml water, 80 g pork (ground), 150 g cabbage (you can choose shrimp and other vegetables you like)
2) 20 g green onion, 1 g salt, 15 g ginger, 1/3 teaspoon of white pepper, 10 g Soy sauce, 10 g sesame oil, 5 g cooking wine, and red chili oil (optional)
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Step 2 Make dumpling dough
Put 4 cups of flour into a large bowl, mixed with 1 g salt. Then stir it well, and gradually add small quantities of warm water until you get a smooth dough. Let the dough rest for about 30minutes to be fermented.
Step 3 Make dumpling fillings
Clean the meat and chop it into ground. Clean the cabbage and cut it into small slices. Put the ground meat and cabbage slices into a bowl. Add some finely chopped ginger and green onion, as well as proper quantity of salt, cooking wine, white pepper, soy sauce, and sesame oil. Stir well to mix.
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Step 4 Make dumpling wrappers
Take out of the dough and put it on a clean flat board. Sprinkle some flour on it. Rub the dough into a stick, and cut it into 20 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a flat circular wrapper about 3 inches in diameter with your hand and a rolling pin. Put the wrappers in a dish. Make sure that each dumpling wrapper is coated with some flour so that they won’t stick together.
Step 5 Wrap dumplings
Put a small spoonful of filling at the center of the wrapper. Smear a little water on the edge of the wrapper, then fold and pinch the wrapper from the middle to the two outer sides, forming a half-circle shape dumpling.
Step 6 Make the dumpling sauce
Mix salt, white sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil and red chili oil in a small dish, and stir it well. The amount of the seasonings can be appropriately used according to your personal taste.
Step 7 Boil the dumplings
You've got to get a wok with water. Add the dumplings one by one into to the water until the water is boiling. Add in 1/4 table spoon of water when it boils. Repeat this twice again. Turn off the heat. Finally your pork dumplings are ready! Remove the dumplings to a dish, and feast on it with your well-prepared authentic dumpling source.
For those who love fried dumping, here we also enclose fried Chinese dumpling recipe:
Ingredients: frozen dumpling, 12 grams of starch , 120 grams of water, 2 tablespoons of cooking oil
Instructions:
1.Heat up a saucepan with cooking oil. Fry the instant dumplings on a medium heat until it turns golden at the bottom.
2.Stir the starch with water, pour it into the pot, cover the pot with a lid and heat over medium heat until the water has dried and the dumpling wrap is getting crispy.
Chinese Dumpling Recipe Tips & FAQ's
What is usually in Chinese dumplings?
Inside the dumpling wrappers is the filling. The most popular dumpling filling is pork and cabbage, chive with eggs, Beef and celery, pork and radish, lamb and radish, chicken, and pork with champignon.
How do you make Chinese soup dumplings?
Soup dumpling is also named xiaolongbao, a type of steam bun, but with soup inside. According to the traditional soup dumpling recipe, the secret to make delicious soup dumplings is the broth with water and pork bones.
What is the secret to good dumplings?
The order in which you add water and oil to the meat filling determines whether the dumpling is tasty or not.
When mixing the dumpling filling, try to choose half fat and half lean meat. Chop the meat and mix it with the side dishes, add a little salt and then marinate out the water. Subsequently pour the juice, add water and mix well, press out the water and pour off. Later add the seasoning. Once the seasoning has been added and melted, stir well. It is also important to add a little cooking oil and mix well. The oil will store the moisture in the meat, which will make the dumpling filling more juicy and tasty.
What do you serve with Chinese dumplings?
Here are some sides to serve with Chinese dumplings and make your simple dumpling meal a flavorful feast.
-Vinegar peanut
-Shredded chicken with soy sauce
-Sesame seaweed
-Hot and sour Chinese cabbage
-Shredded tofu mixed with shredded green pepper
-Red oil pig ears
-Spinach with jellyfish
-And dumpling soup
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