Dumplings Guide
Dumplings are one of my favorite foods to cook. They’re delicious and super fun to make, especially with other people. This is less of a recipe, and more of a rough outline on how to make the type dumplings my family usually makes. As a result, I left some of the ingredient quantities blank, since they can be easily adjusted based on personal preference. In the future, I might replace these with more exact quantities, but I am currently very approximate with them.
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground pork
- 1 pound shrimp
- chives
- Chinese cabbage
- dumpling wrappers
- ginger
- 4 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- salt
- pepper
- sugar
- 1 egg
- chicken broth
Directions
- Peel and devein shrimp, then dice into small pieces
- Dice the chives and cabbage, add salt, and let sit for a few minutes.
- Mix ground pork, shrimp, minced ginger, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, pepper, and egg in a large bowl.
- Add 2 tbsp of chicken broth into the bowl and stir. Keep adding and stirring 2 tbsp at a time until the meat is a bit loose.
- Squeeze the water from the chives and cabbage and mix into the meat.
- Taste the filling by microwaving a small spoonful of the meat. Add salt and adjust other sauces if necessary.
- Wrap the dumplings.
- To make boiled dumplings, add dumplings to boiling water. Once the water boils again, add 1 cup of cold water. Repeat a second time, and once the water boils the third time after adding the dumplings, the dumplings are ready. Note: You can easily freeze these dumplings and make them later. Just add another boil cycle if you’re cooking frozen dumplings.