So Hurricane Irene is supposed to hit soon… everybody is panicking… I took my chill pill and decided to treat it like any other day. Plus, it’s not the end of the world, guys… So anyway, my mom decided to make dumplings for the special occasion and I’m helping out! Many people wonder how to make dumplings so I’ll give you a brief and easy tutorial.
Ingredients:
- 1 to 1 1/2 lb of ground pork (you’re certainly welcome to use ground chicken or a mix of both)
- leek
- a pack of dumpling wrappers (can be found in any Asian supermarket)
- sugar
- oyster sauce
- salt
this will yield about 30 to 40 dumplings, you can decide the amount of leek to add into your mix depending on your preferences.
To prepare the mix, put your meat in a big mixing bowl, add the leek, mix it a little THEN add the seasoning. You can go nuts with the oyster sauce (I say squirt like 3-4 TABLE spoons worth (not tea)), sprinkle salt all over, and give like a splash of sugar (about 2 tea spoons)) surprisingly, sugar brings the flavor of the meat out. Once you got everything in there, just mix it all up!
Procedure is super duper simple:
1) Scoop a spoonful (like the size of a quarter) and place it in the middle of the wrapper.
2) Next, you want to fold from one corner to the opposite one, making it look like a triangle. IMPORTANT: before you fold, use your finger and be sure to dap water at the edges and where the meat isn’t present! Fold and squeeze the edges a little so it doesn’t fall apart.
3) bend and curve the dumpling a little so the 2 ends/corners come together and put a little water on that so they stay glued
4) once you are done folding them, you can start cooking them. Have a pot of boiling water ready, and put the dumplings in when the water is boiled. Move them around, so they don’t stick to each other or the pot.
5) when they float to the top (about couple minutes), then you can take them out! You see the big ladle thingie in the picture? We transferred the cooked dumplings into chicken broth for more flavor, but that’s optional.
Usually, we like to serve it with a side dish of red vinegar. If that’s too exotic, try some sesame oil, also delicious.
And that’s how we prepared for the hurricane 🙂 no stress
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