New Year's Dumpling Delight

Total Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 tablespoons green onions, minced
• 1 hot red pepper, monced
• 10 ounces ground lamb
• 3 1/2 cups napa cabbage, shredded
• 1 1/4 cups thinly sliced leeks (about 1 large)
• 3/4 cup green onion, monced
• 1 cup shiitake mushroom caps, thinly sliced (about 3oz)
• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, peeled, minced
• 1 tablespoon low sodium soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon sake (rice wine) or 1 tablespoon sherry wine
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 40 wonton wrappers
• 2 large carrots, thinly sliced

Recipe

• 1 for the dipping sauce:.
• 2 to prepare the dipping sauce, combine first 7 ingredients. cover and refrigerate.
• 3 for the dumplings:.
• 4 combine lamb and next 10 ingredients (lamb through black pepper) in a large bowl).
• 5 working with 1 won ton wrapper at a time (cover remaining wrappers with a damp towel to keep from drying), spoon about 2 teaspoons lamb mixture into center of each wrapper. moisten edges of wrapper with water. bring 2 opposite corners to center, pinching points to seal. bring remaining 2 corners to center, pinching points to seal. pinch 4 edges together to seal. place dumplings, seam sides up, on carrot slices (cover loosely with a damp towel to keep them from drying).
• 6 arrange half of dumplings in a single layer in a bamboo or vegetable steamer. steam dumplings, covered, for 10 minutes. remove dumplings from steamer; place on a platter. keep warm. repeat procedure with remaining dumplings. serve with dipping sauce.
• 7 note: if you don't have a steamer, use a heat-proof plate. set it on top of a heat-proof bowl placed in the bottom of a pot filled with 2-inches of water. cover and steam.