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Pork and Prawn Dumplings

  • Author: Raymund
  • Prep Time: 30 mins
  • Cook Time: 4 mins
  • Total Time: 34 mins
  • Category: Main Course
  • Cuisine: Chinese

Description

This Pork and Prawn Dumplings is one of my favourite Chinese dishes and most probably the first on the list specially the Shumai’s we can’t leave a Chinese restaurant without ordering those, there are hundreds of varieties of this lovely dish for me is the Chinese counterpart for the Japanese sushi.


Ingredients

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Instructions

  1. In a mixing bowl mix together all ingredients except for the wrappers.
  2. Place 1 tbsp of the meat mixture into the middle of each wrapper then dampen the edges of the wrapper with water. Now the dough over the filling making a half moon shape then seal the edges by folding and pinching it.
  3. If you are boiling: Place water into a large pot and bring it to a boil, once boiling place dumpling slowly one by one while giving it a gentle stir to avoid them sticking together. Cook each dumpling for around 3-4 minutes.
  4. If you are deep frying: Heat up oil in deep fryer and deep fry each dumpling for 3-4 minutes
  5. If you are steaming: Place dumplings in steamer and steam for 25 minutes.
  6. If you are pan frying: Arrange dumplings in a wide non stick pan, add 1/2 cup of water then bring it to a boil, covered.  Let the water evaporate and once it has fully evaporated add a bit of oil, let the bottom part brown and become crispy, once browned and crispy, turn heat off.
  7. Serve.