Trying out new dish. This recipe is ideal for someone who does not eat meat. Easy to make & cook them boil or pan fried.
You can make more & freeze them. Eat them whenever.
Meatless dumplings recipe:
Makes about 20 - 25 dumplings.
Ingredients:
20 - 25 dumpling skin
Dumpling fillings :-
1 small egg
10 stalks of Chinese chives
10 water chestnuts - finely chopped
2 tbsp / 5 cloves of garlic - finely chopped
2 tbsp ginger - finely chopped
2 large Chinese dried mushroom - soaked in water until soft & finely chopped
1 tbsp mushroom sauce
1/4 tsp of pepper
Dipping sauce :-
Ginger - sliced thinly & cut thin strips
Black vinegar
Sesame oil
Spring onions - finely chopped
Chili - remove the seeds & finely chopped
Preparation steps :
1. Mix all the dumpling fillings ingredients into a large bowl. Mix well.
2. Take a tablespoon full of mixed ingredients & put onto the dumpling skin, seal the edges with some water. Repeat until all the ingredients finished.
3a. Cooking method - Pan fried : Heat up a pan with some cooking oil, lay all the dumplings neatly on the pan, over medium flame. Cover with a lid for few mins until the bottom of dumplings have nice browning. Add about 3 tbsp of water & quickly cover with the lid for a few more minutes more. Then turn the dumplings to get more browning on the other side of the dumplings or until the meat is fully cooked.
3b. Cooking method - boiling : In a large pot, add water (enough to for all the dumplings), bring to boil. Add some oil into the water, then put in all the dumplings. When the dumplings are fully cooked, they will surface. The oil will prevent the dumpling from sticking together.
4. Take them out & served with dipping sauce.
Bon appétit !
Chin's notes :
1. A video on how to fold the dumplings & prepare dumplings.
2. If I freeze the dumplings, I'll cook them straight away & not thawing them out because they will stick together & become difficult to manage.
3. If you cannot find water chestnuts, you can use celery or any other vegetable of your choice. If the vegetables has a lot of water content, best to blanch & squeeze out as much water as you can before adding other ingredients.
4. Recipe for dumpling skins : Homemade Dumpling Skins
5. Remove the seeds from the chili to reduce the hotness.
6. I used frozen water chestnuts but I prefer the fresh ones when they are available. Water chestnuts are also available in the can.
7. Dumplings with meat recipe : Jiao zi ( 饺子 ）- Chinese Dumplings
Pictures of the process in preparing these dumplings.
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| Ingredients |
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| Chopped and mixed dumpling filings |
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| Pan fried dumplings |
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| Boiling method |
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| Sesame oil (left) & Black vinegar (right) |
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