Make dumplings (vegetarian)

This post was from years ago. I want to share with you so you can learn how to make dumplings. Here it is:

A good friend had surgery in Portland and did not want to eat. Only she wanted was some home made Chinese dumplings. Came back from WV, I hurried up and made some for her and send them to her hospital room. I was so happy seeing the satisfaction on her face while she was eating the food she grown up with.


Here is the instruction to make them. It may be a little complicate, but you can try it. If you have any question, please leave a comment so I will answer you in a timely manner.

Ingredients:

All purpose flour, vegetable Chive, eggs, salt, 5 specie powders and sesame oil.

Instructions:

1) Make a dough: Use water and all purpose flour and mix them together to make a ordinary dough.


2) Clean vegetable Chive (you can get this from Sunrise Asian grocery store) and put side, let it dry of water


3) Fry some eggs: break eggs to a bowel and pan fry them like this

4) Cut the chive to small pieces like this:

5) chop the fried eggs to Small pieces:

6) put the chopped eggs and vegetables together, add salt, specie powders and sesame oil
7) Mix them all together like this. When the good smells came out, it is ready to be used.

8) Working on the dough and make it smooth and easy to work with.

9) Make the dough as a long strip and cut it as small pieces

10) Mix the small piece dough with dry flour

11) Press the small pieces dough as flat noodle

12) Use roller to make the flat noodle thinner and bigger

12) Pick up the flat noodle piece dough

13) Put the stuffy in the flat noodle

14) Close the flat noodle to make the dumplings.

15) At first, it will be like this

16) Make the dumpling shape like this

17) These what the dumplings look like

18) Boil some water and them put the dumplings in to the boiling water for 20 minutes

19) You can put the extra ones in the Frazer for future use. You can also make them as potstickers if you prefer.

20) Dumplings are boiling

21) When all the dumplings are floating, they are ready

22) Take the cooked dumplings out to a plat to be served


23) Get some vinegar to serve with the boiled dumplings


24) Serve the dumplings with garlic and vinegar, and some beer if you like. Enjoy!

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