Juicy and flavourful dumplings
These dumplings have a very simple yet delicious filling- and these certainly make for a tasty starter or one of several dishes in a tasting menu.
Servings
40 pieces
Prep time:
15min
Cook time:
10min
Difficulty:
Medium
Ingredients
- 250g minced beef
- 6 spring onions
- 2 garlic clove
- 1 thumb ginger
- 1 egg
- half a pack of fresh coriander
- 1tbsp vegetable oil
- 1tsp toasted sesame oil
- 1tsp dark soy sauce
- 1tsp salt
- 1tsp pepper
- half a pack of fresh coriander
- one pack of dumpling wrappers/pastry
This is a simple recipe, and can easily be prepared in advance and frozen- we usually have a bag of these in the freezer for days when we don’t feel like cooking! Just cook or steam them straight from the freezer (just add an extra minute or two cooking time) and they taste just as good.
It helps if you have someone who can help with the folding of the dumplings- and this also halves the prep time!
We served these as a starter, however they also work well served with other dumpling dishes- such as our pak choi and cavolo nero dumplings, beef potsticker dumplings or Shanghai pan-fried potsticker buns.
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1
First, cut each spring onion in half lengthways, then thinly sliced. Add into a bowl.
Step 2
Next, peel the ginger and garlic, roughly chop these, then grind in a pestle and mortar.
Step 3
Finely chop the coriander, then add to the bowl with the spring onions, alongside the ground ginger and garlic. Add the mince. Next, crack the egg into the bowl, then add in the soy sauce, sesame oil and salt and pepper.
Step 4
Mix everything well together.
Step 5
The next step is to assemble the dumplings themselves.
Into the middle of each wrapper, place one teaspoon of the filling, dip your fingers into some water then wet the edges of the dumpling, then bring the two sides together. For our dumplings, we do folds on one side only: first press together one corner, then add a fold next to that corner, then keep adding folds all along.
Alternatively- you could just do a half moon shape- but these aren’t as impressive!
Step 6
Once all the dumplings have been folded, they are ready to cook. Preheat a pan to medium-high heat, add vegetable oil then cook the dumplings (on their bottoms) for 3-4 minutes until the bottoms are brown.
Step 7
Deglaze the pan: pour in around 100ml of water into the pan. This steams the dumplings and makes sure the rest of the dumplings are cooked- and not just the bottoms. Steam for another 3-4 minutes.
Step 8
The dumplings are then ready to serve, alongside some soy sauce for dipping. Enjoy!
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