Pork dumpling豬肉餃子

豬肉餃子

Zhūròu jiǎozi

Pork Dumplings

Hi there, already an other recipe! I want to update my blog more often. Today I want to show you how to make dumplings. I need to practice my folding because I want to be able to make pretty dumplings like in restaurants. But at least my dumplings are juicy and tender, and flavourful. There are 4 ways to cook dumplings, by steaming, boiling, pan frying or deep-frying, which is sometime served for the Chinese New Year, and is popular in America but less in China.

My recipe is steamed dumplings. Steamed dumplings has to be eaten quickly or the skin may come harder. I used frozen commercial jiaozi skin, but frozen skins aren't very stretchy, and homemade ones are way better and more opaque.

My recipe is actually an accident but it turned into my formula A dumpling! I grabbed the vinegar bottle, thinking it was soy sauce and pourred on my meat, then, I realised it was vinegar.... But it turned out very good! :)

Stuffing:

-1 lbs pork

-2 garlic cloves, finely chopped

-1 big bunch of green onion, finely chopped

-1 bird eye chili, finely chopped and seed removed (optional)

-1 egg

-1 ts dark soy sauce

-1 tbs light soy sauce

-1 tbs vinegar

-1/2 tbs sesame oil

-1 tbs of potato starch

-1 pinch of asian 5 spices

-1 pinch of black pepper

Mix well together. It may looks too light or too liquid but that's what will make your dumpling not dry.

And the potato starch will help the meat to keep a good constancy.

MARINATE 2 to 5 HOURS.

How to fold dumpling: I couldn't have anyone to film me folding a dumpling so I will send you a link of a video from my favorite blogger (Margo Zhang): How to fold a Jiaozi

Put your dumplings on the both stages from your bamboo steamer. Put the steamer on a pot full of water and start boiling.

When it boils, start counting 25 minutes and the dumplings are cooked!

Three cups chicken三杯雞

三杯雞

Sān bēi jī

Three cups chicken
As promised, there is my Three cups chicken recipe. This is a speciality of the Ningdu county of Jianxi. A meal that became very popular in Taiwan. In this recipe i use Chicken drumstick beaucause I just really like this. I use 9 of them. To make it good, use chicken that has alot of fat.The rock sugar will help to make it shinny, but if you can't find it, just use brown sugar, but it won't as shinny as it is...

For 9 drumsticks:

-120 ml of light soy sauce

-80 ml of dark soy sauce

-200 ml of sesame oil

-200 ml of Shaoxing wine, or xeres

-1 star anise

-1 chunk of ginger, cut into slices

-4 cloves of garlic, cut in half

-1 chunk of rock sugar

-1/2 ts of 5 spices powder

-1 bunch of basil, only leaves

|Add a bit of the sesame oil in wok, and brown the chicken

|When browned, add the garlic, anis and ginger pieces, cook 2 more minutes

|Add the wine, the spices, the sauces, and the oil, then add the sugar.

|Lower the heat, cover, the simmer for 30 minutes, remove from the heat.

|Add the basil, stir, and cover for 5 minutes. Then its ready

Vary: Basil -> Cilantro
          Anis -> Cardamom

Upcoming recipe: Japanese rice curry