Dumpling Making!! :b

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In this topic i have posted recipies about making dumplings!
Most of these ingredients can actually be found in your own market basket or stop and shop but they don't taste as good as the ingredients from Chinatown or China itself, obviously,
So i hope you enjoy! :b  

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Jiaozi: New Years Dumplings Recipe #1

Ingredients:

Jiaozi dough:
3 cups all-purpose flour
up to 1 1/4 cups cold water
1/4 teaspoon salt
Filling:
1 cup ground pork or beef
1 TB soy sauce
1 teaspoon salt
1 TB Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper, or to taste
3 TB sesame oil
1/2 green onion, finely minced
1 1/2 cups finely shredded Napa cabbage
4 tablespoons shredded bamboo shoots
2 slices fresh ginger, finely minced

Preparation:

Stir the salt into the flour. Slowly stir in the cold water, adding as much as is necessary to form a smooth dough. Don't add more water than is ncessary. Knead the dough into a smooth ball. Cover the dough and let it rest for at least 30 minutes.

While the dough is resting, prepare the filling ingredients. Add the soy sauce, salt, rice wine and white pepper to the meat, stirring in only one direction. Add the remaining ingredients, stirring in the same direction, and mix well.

To make the dumpling dough: knead the dough until it forms a smooth ball. Divide the dough into 60 pieces. Roll each piece out into a circle about 3-inches in diameter.

Place a small portion (about 1 level tablespoon) of the filling into the middle of each wrapper. Wet the edges of the dumpling with water. Fold the dough over the filling into a half moon shape and pinch the edges to seal. Continue with the remainder of the dumplings.

To cook, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add half the dumplings, giving them a gentle stir so they don't stick together. Bring the water to a boil, and add 1/2 cup of cold water. Cover and repeat. When the dumplings come to a boil for a third time, they are ready. Drain and remove. If desired, they can be pan-fried at this point.  

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Pan-Fried Dumplings

Yield: 40 servings

FILLING:
1 lb Ground pork
1/3 lb Raw shrimp, shelled and finely chopped (if your allergic you could use other stuff like more pork etc.)
1/2 c Chopped water chestnuts, rinsed
2 1/2 tb Minced fresh ginger root
2 tb Minced scallions, white part
3 tb Soy sauce
1 tb Rice wine
1 1/2 ts Sesame oil
1/4 ts Ground black pepper
2 tb Cornstarch
HOT CHILI SAUCE:
3 tb Soy sauce
1 tb Chinese black vinegar (or substitute 1 1/2 t Worcestershire sauce)
1 tb Sugar
1/2 ts Hot chili paste
1 ts Minced ginger root
2 tb Warm water
FINISHING:
40 Dumpling or gyozo skins
Cornstarch for dusting
1 c Safflower or corn oil

Stir all of the filling ingredients together until
combined. Set aside. Combine the ingredients for the
hot chili sauce in a serving bowl. To finish: Place 1
T filling in the center of each dumpling skin. Moisten
the edge with water, fold over to enclose the filling,
and press the edge to seal. Transfer the dumplings to
a tray that has been dusted with cornstarch.
Heat a wok or a deep skillet and add the oil. Heat to
350 and add 7 or 8 of the dumplings. Fry, turning
constantly, until a deep gold - about 4 min. Remove
and drain briefly in a colander. Transfer to paper
towels. Repeat the process for all the dumplings,
reheating oil between batches. Serve the dumplings
warm with the sauce on the side. Makes 40 dumplings.  

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Apple Dumplings (not really chinese but that doesn't matter they looked good)

There's four things you have to do to prepare this easy apple dumpling recipe:
Prepare the sauce
Prepare the actual apple dumplings
Pour the sauce over the dumplings
Bake

How to Make the Apple Dumpling Sauce

Ingredients:
1 Cup Water
1/8 (one eighth) Teaspoon Cinnamon
1/8 (one eighth) Teaspoon Nutmeg
2 Tablespoons Butter or Margarine

Place the sugar, water, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a small saucepan.
Bring to boiling point.

Add butter or margarine and stir until melted.

Remove from heat and set aside.

How to Make the Apple Dumplings

2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Salt
2/3 (two thirds) Cups Shortening - I use Crisco
1/2 (one half) Cup Milk
6 Macintosh Apples (about 3 inch diameter)

Preheat the oven to 375°
Lightly grease a 9" x 13" x 1½" baking dish.

Place flour, baking powder and salt in medium size bowl and mix it together with a fork.
Add the shortening to the bowl and cut in shortening. Not familiar with the term cut in shortening? You're simply passing the fork through the mixture. It should look like this picture

Add milk to bowl all at once and use a fork to just moisten the mixture.
The picture on the below shows how the mixture should look after you have moistened it with the milk.
Place the apple dumpling dough mixture on a lightly floured pastry board. Roll the pastry out until it is large enough cut six 6-inch squares (one for each apple).
Then peel the apple and cut it in half and remove the core
Place the apple on one of the 6-inch dough squares holding the two halves together.
Pour some sugar into the apple and then generously sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg. I just about fill the center of the apple with the sugar.

Place a pat of butter on the top.
Take a little water and moisten the edges of the 6-inch dough square.
Fold the corners to the center of the top of the apple. Do you see now why you want smaller apples?

If you start to run a little low on dough doing the final apples you can always roll it out a bit more.

Pinch the dough together at the seams.
Try to place the apple dumplings in the baking dish about an inch apart if possible. You can see mine were a little close in the picture...but they got perfect anyway.
Pour the sauce we made earlier over the apple dumplings and then sprinkle them with sugar.

Place the baking dish in the oven preheated to 375° and bake for 35 minutes.

http://www.apple-pie-crisp-dumplings-recipes.com/

p.s. the smaller the apple the easier it is to work with.

 

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