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爷爷的饺子 🥟 (Dumplings)

Ingredients

For 5-6 people.

Skins

  • Strong plain flour (500g)400g)
  • Salt 1/2 tsp
  • Sugar 3 tsp
  • Oil 2 tbsp
  • Water (100ml hot 100ml cold)

Filling (Pork)

  • 500g mince pork
  • Chinese cabbage (half pound)
  • Spring Onion (1 bunch)
  • Ginger (big thumb size)
  • Salt
  • White Pepper
  • Dark Soya Sauce
  • Light Soya Sauce
  • Sesame oil
  • 5 spice powder
  • Chicken powder
  • Oil

Filling (Veggie)

  • Makes the taste
    • Chicken powder
    • Salt
    • Soya sauce
    • Sesame oil
    • Sichuan pepper oil (if you have it)
    • Sugar
    • Ginger
  • Fills in the bulk (Replace with things you like or can get!)
    • Carrots
    • Eggs
    • Mu'er
    • Mushrooms
    • Chinese cabbage
    • 豆腐 (Tofu)
    • Vermicelli

Preparation

Dough

Do this 2 hours before you need it

  1. Mix flour with 2-3 pinches of salt, 2-3 tsp of sugar, 2 tbsp of oil
  2. Add half a mug of very hot boiled water, then half a mug of cold water to mix together
  3. Adjust by adding flour and water till you get the right consistency
  4. Mix flour 2 hours before use then cover dough with cling film and leave for 2 hours in the fridge

Filling (Pork)

  1. Chop ginger very fine, put in a bowl
  2. Add light soy sauce 1 tbsp, dark soy 1tsp, 5 spice powder 1tsp, white pepper 1tsp, chicken powder 1tsp, then 1/3 a normal tea cup of cold water to mix them all together.
  3. Add the mince pork and mix together
  4. Add 2 tbsp cooking oil and 1 or 2 tbsp of sesame oil. Mix together.
  5. Cut the cabbage into fine pieces. Put 1 or 2 tsp salt on the cabbage for 10 minutes, then soak the cabbage in cold water for 10 minutes, then drain away all the excess water.
  6. Chop spring onions and mix with the drained cabbage
  7. Mix cabbage mix with mince mix

Filling (Veggie)

  1. Make all the ingredients small
    • Scramble the eggs real small
    • Grate the carrots and anything else that looks easy to grate
    • Mu'er - soak for a while to soften first
    • Vermicelli - Cook then chop
    • Dice everything else
  2. Mix it all together with the tasty parts
  3. Adjust to your taste

Cooking

Method 1: Boiling

  1. Bring pot of water to the boil
  2. Put dumplings in water.
  3. Bring the water to boil.
  4. [REPEAT 3 TIMES] Put in a bowl of cold water then bring the pot to boil again
  5. They're ready!

Method 2: Frying (锅贴) <- Better

  1. Warm non-stick pan a little then put one tablespoon oil in
  2. Put dumplings in the pan very close to each other. Usually you try to make concentric rings <TODO: Insert picture>
  3. Put cold water to almost cover the dumplings and cover with a lid. Put on high heat until it starts boiling.
  4. When the water is almost all boiled off, make sure the dumplings aren't stuck to the pan then put more oil in the pan and cook for another 5-6 minutes without the lid. You'll probably want the heat to be lower for this part
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