So the boyfriend was nice enough to order this cook book with his other stuff so I wouldn't have to pay for shipping and I finally made my first attempt at making dumplings from scratch. Now don't get me wrong, I've made dumplings before - just always bought the wrappers from stores, never made them myself.
I started with the first recipe in the book, because it seemed simple enough...three hours later I had dumplings. The wrappers were a lot trickier than I thought they would be - they stuck to everything and I had to keep using more flour - I don't think the humid weather was helping either.
Check out the photos I took along the way of my pork and nappa cabbage water dumplings!
The filling: mainly pork, nappa cabbage & scallion
The dough, tortilla press and the start of the wrappers!
Rolled out with my dowel rolling pin - the middle (aka the belly) is thicker for better wrapper to filling ratio, mine aren't that circular - guess i need more practice
Cooking them up!
Finished pea pod and pleated crescent shapes
That one is a flower bud shape - kinda...
The in the middle is a poor attempt at closed satchel - guess I need a lot more practice before trying to make soup dumplings
~emy
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