The Making of Chinese Dumpling
Was suppose to post this before the dumpling festival, but... haih, same old word... LAZY lo
I see my mom make dumpling every year, sometimes I did help up, but every time when I failed, I will give up. The dumpling is really not easy to make, especially the final wrap up step. Chinese has this special festival and wonderful food - dumpling, I know I need to learn how to make this one day, because I don't want this wonderful food disappear in our Chinese society (not many people know how to make dumpling nowadays).
So this year, I have decided to help my mom again.
Ingredients Preparation
1 day before...
I see my mom make dumpling every year, sometimes I did help up, but every time when I failed, I will give up. The dumpling is really not easy to make, especially the final wrap up step. Chinese has this special festival and wonderful food - dumpling, I know I need to learn how to make this one day, because I don't want this wonderful food disappear in our Chinese society (not many people know how to make dumpling nowadays).
So this year, I have decided to help my mom again.
Ingredients Preparation
1 day before...
My mom usually will book the pork few days before.
And the pork must have a very good proportion of fat and lean meat. Believe me, forget about your slimming program, it taste really good.
Marinate the pork with:
Onion and garlic (pounded)
Rice wine and Shaoxing wine
5 spices powder
Oyster sauce
Thick soya sauce
Marinate the pork overnight and at the same time, soak the dumpling leaves and strings.
Other ingredients:
Fried dried, shelled shrimps
Stir-fried marinated pork
Fried glutinous rice with red bean (+ some salt)
Boiled mushroom
Salted egg yoke
Dried scallop
Chestnut
Started wrapping/making the dumpling
Take 2 piece of leaves, folded to a funnel shape, step by step fill in the ingredient
1. put a little bit of rice at the bottom
2. put all other ingredient in the middle
3. cover with rice again
Tada, yeah! I did it! Although my dumpling is slightly smaller than my mom one.
I also do not understand, my mom's hands are smaller than mine, how come her dumpling is bigger than mine?
I didn't press hard enough, that's why the rice was a bit loose.
Can you see the whitish part in between the dumpling? It was the pork, so tender and juicy
yum~ the best part of a dumpling.
For those who have digestion problem, better don't take so much dumpling at a time. After all the dumplings were done, I took 2 and after that, I suffered stomach pain... indigestion lo... haih, my body likes old lady...
1 comment:
they look soo yummy! Wow gal, you now know how to BAO ZUNG la! I wanna eat dumpling so badly! Yummy!
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