My first attempt at making panfried dumplings with wrappers that I made myself from scratch! Bye-bye store-bought ones.Big "thank you's" to Melly who sent me the recipe for the wrapper almost immediately after I asked for it in a comment on her post. And to Selina for sharing her mom's recipe with us! Here are the photos, girls.
The dough, resting under a damp tea towel, waiting to be used.
The filling. I don't eat pork, the meat used traditionally and my favourite butcher sold out of chicken mince today so I got some crab meat and added diced prawns, dried scallops, chives, shiitake and coriander. Plus salt, white pepper, soy sauce, garlic oil and a little bit of eggwhite to bind the mix.
The dough, after 30 minutes' rest, rolled out with my treasured Huon Pine rolling pin. It is precious because the pine is a protected timber and the only way it can be "harvested" nowadays is from logs salvaged from rivers and forest floors.I wished I had my pasta maker machine with me for the job, though. The rolling pin can only take the dough to a certain thin-ness but not thin enough for me.
Cutting the wrappers to size from the dough sheet. The scrap can be re-rolled if more wrappers are required.
In goes the filling.
Sealed and pinched, ready to go into the pot of boiling water to which I've added salt and a few drops of sesame seed oil.They're done when they float and the wrappers go a little translucent.
And then panfried to crispy golden-ness in a frying pan with a few tablespoons of oil.
We ate them with loads of black Chinese vinegar (the only way to eat them!) for dinner.
Thank you for a lovely meal, Melly and Selina!
Edit-to-add: Just went to Selina's blog and she's posted the full recipe, for both the dough and filling, here!
7 comments:
you pinched them so nicely! your dumplings look so pretty. ha, the skin really does make a difference. the store-bought ones i used look a sick yellow now.
well when i finally have a rolling pin, i'll try making my own dough. and a cookie cutter lol.
Hello Melly,
You think so? When I was pinching them, I got a bit frustrated because I wanted all of them to look exactly the same (I'm anal like that) but they didn't. Should make paid more attention to my grandma and mom when they were making them.
When we first moved here, we didn't have very much in the kitchen utensils drawer. I used a wine bottle as a rolling pin and a round takeaway container as a cutter. They both worked pretty well. x
i'm so hungry right now! this totally just made my stomach rumble. damn you!!! ahhh. haha. the last time i made one of these things was when i was in preschool and we had to do it for a project. it was really fun! but they were definitely not as cute and perfect as yours! =)
Oh, mmmmmmm, yes please! I love real Gyoza!
Hello Farren,
You should try making them again, now that you're older and have more nifty fingers? I felt so good eating them, something I made from scratch, last night. x
Hello Icy,
Go on, make some and spread the gyoza-love! x
Mmm looks yummy -- especially since it's homemade. I really need to put more effort into cooking. I'm so lazy! :(
Hello Katlin,
And they're filled with seafood...your favourite things! x
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