I returned from a trip to Beijing last week. The entire experience was exhilarating, but the food experience completely blew me away :D. Upon my return I of course had to do quickly try out some recipes before I forgot how wonderful it all tasted. First in line was dumplings!
Super easy!
I made about 6/7 dumplings.
Buy spring roll wrap thats available everywhere if you dont want to go through the trouble of making the dough and cut into relatively small squares.
Take some shrimps / chicken / minced meat (or a mixture of them).
Add soy sauce to taste.
Add sambal oelek (hot sauce with whole chile flakes in it still) to taste. This is the south asian in me, to make it taste more like a Nepali momo.
Add fresh cilantros.
Little bit of onion if you like, very small amount.
And a little bit of garlic.
Put all of this into the food processor (moshla machine I call it) and pulse it untill its all mixed and everything is in small tiny pieces. Its better if it isnt a total paste because the consistency I feel is better if its smaller pieces than a paste.
All done in 50 seconds!
Then take one table spoon of this mix and place it at the centre of the square spring roll wrap. If you want a thicker skin you can make it with 2/3 wraps if you like.
Pick up 2 diagonal corners and fold them in. This is somewhat like you how make paper fans or in case of South Asian girls, how you do the front kuchi of the saree.
Youll need your fingers wet to make it all stick and stay.
Put them all in the steamer now and its ready in 10 minutes! I used the regular bamboo steamer bought from a Chinese grocery here in Stockholm.
Heres the photo. Dumpling away. Its soo good.
Next in line, Hunan tea oil chicken - but I have to find tea oil first for that :D, Xinjian BBQ lamb and chicken wings - I have all the materials for the marinade for this already :D!
And I just found a recipe online right now for lemon Hunan chicken that will also be tried soon.
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