Dumplings homemade

07 Nov 2011 Comments Off

by labelleaurore in beef recipe, Recipes

Following our cooking class on how to make dumplings, we finally, last Saturday, made them at home.

So finally, on a very cloudy day, we decided to make our own dumplings. I eat dumplings for breakfast… just because I LOVE dumplings! They are so easy to make, with almost no ingredients but left over in the fridge. These were made with ground beef, onions, spices, cabbage, garlic and ginger. I decided to fry them in a bit of sesame oil and then, add 1/4 cup of water to the pan of 12 dumplings, and let it cook until the water was all gone.

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I got my ‘dumpling’ flour at the ‘Richgate Shopping Center’ in the Shenhe District, here in Shenyang. A dumpling flour is a finer flour than the regular one, but any flour could do just the job.

As for the Peanut Hoisin dipping sauce, I made this one but personnally I eat my dumplings with a drop of sesame oil mixed with soya sauce, simple.

For the dough :

Mix 2 cups of white flour with 1 cup of boiling water. Using your hand, form two rolls of dough. Cut each roll into 12 parts (24 in total). Using your hand, flat into a small circle, each piece. Take a rolling pin and roll each circle into a bigger one, as thin as possible. Do not use too much flour here, just enough to prevent the sticking part on the counter top… Fill the flatten circles with about 1 teaspoon of your meat mix, pitching the edges to close it. At this point, they can be frozen before cooking them.

Recipe for the Peanut Hoisin dipping sauce:

1/2 cup of water

4 tablespoons of creamy peanut butter

4 tablespoons of Hoisin Sauce (Isetan here in Shenyang carries this sauce)

2 tablespoons of white sugar

Mix all ingredients together and use as a dipping sauce for the Dumplings.