Shanghainese Dumpling Recipe (dim Sum)

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 450 g chinese cabbage
• 150 g prawns, chopped finely
• 50 wonton skins
• 100 g skinless chicken (chopped finely or beef with no fat)
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1/2 tablespoon oyster sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon ginger juice (20 g ginger, pounded and mix with 2 tbsp of water)
• black mushroom, sliced thinly and fried with small amount of oil in a non-stick pan. (or bean curd) (optional)
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil
• 6 red chilies, pounded
• 1/2 inch gingerroot
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1/2 cup boiling water

Recipe

• 1 blanch cabbage until soft and slice thinly.
• 2 mix meat, cabbage and prawn with seasoning.
• 3 scoop 1 tsp of the mixed ingredients onto the wanton skin.
• 4 apply a small amount of water at the side of the wanton skin, gather up the skin to make a little "purse" out of them, and tie with a chive, or thin layer of a green onion.
• 5 boil water in a pot and cook dumplings for 3 - 5 minutes.
• 6 scoop dumplings and place on a plate.
• 7 serve with sauce:.
• 8 combine all ingredients together with boiling water.
• 9 10 dumplings/ serves 5.