Do you like dumplings? Almost everyone will answer this question positively. This simple dish has already gained popularity among bachelors, housewives and children.
A product made of meat and unleavened dough, boiled in water - what could be simpler? This article will discuss the preparation of steamed dumplings in a slow cooker. Also in the article will be a recipe for Chinese shrimp dumplings.
Making dumplings dough
Cooking delicious and delicious dumplings begins with the dough. For him you will need:
- wheat flour - 450 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- cold water - 200 ml;
- salt - 5 g.
Stages of dough preparation:
- Sift flour into a deep dish. Make a depression in the center of the slide made of flour.
- Break the eggs into a separate dish, beat them with a fork. Add cold water and mix.
- Pour the water and eggs into the recess that was made in the flour. Add salt. Knead the dough with a fork, gradually adding flour from the edges of the recess.
- Next, start kneading the dough with your hands. Achieve a uniform and supple mass. The perfect dough should be free of cracks and creases.
- Make a ball out of dough. Put it in a dish, cover with a towel and leave for 30 minutes.
- Knead the finished dough again. The result should be a dough that does not stick to your hands.
Preparation of the filling and modeling of dumplings
As a filling for dumplings use minced pork, chicken, beef, fish or shrimp. You can add salt, pepper and any other spices to the mince at your discretion.
Molding dumplings is as follows:
- Cut a piece of dough and roll it into a bundle with a diameter of 5 centimeters. Cut the tourniquet into pieces 2 cm thick.
- Roll the pieces in flour and roll them with a rolling pin.
- Put the stuffing from the minced meat in the center of the cake.
- Fold the cake in half and connect the edges.
- Connect the ends of the dumplings to get a shape similar to a ball.
Cooking dumplings. List of Essential Ingredients
In order to cook dumplings, you will need:
- dumplings - 250 grams;
- peppercorns - 9 peas;
- vegetable oil - 10 ml;
- bay leaf - 4 leaves;
- dried parsley root - 12 grams;
- vinegar 9% - 10 ml;
- ground black pepper - 5 grams;
- sour cream - 50 grams.
Steamed Dumplings Recipe
- Lubricate the steaming pan with vegetable oil. Put the dumplings on the form.
- In a multicooker bowl, pour a liter of boiling water, put bay leaf, peppercorns and parsley root.
- Place the steaming pan in the multicooker. Turn on Steaming. How to steam dumplings? Cook for 15-18 minutes.
- Dumplings can be served immediately with a sauce of sour cream, vinegar and black pepper.
Steamed Chinese Dumplings, or Xiajiao
Chinese dumplings differ from Russian in the filling and composition of the dough.
Ingredients for the preparation of the filling:
- shrimp - 350 grams;
- minced pork - 100 grams;
- green onion - 2 arrows;
- ginger - 5 grams;
- Shaoxing wine - 8 grams;
- sesame oil - 3 grams;
- Sichuan pepper - 8 grams;
- ground black pepper - 4 grams;
- granulated chicken broth - 4 grams;
- salt - 3 grams;
- white sugar - 3 grams.
Ingredients for making dough:
- wheat starch - 180 grams;
- corn starch - 60 grams;
- boiling water - 300 ml;
- salt - 4 grams.
Ingredients for preparing dip sauce:
- black rice vinegar - 10 ml;
- spicy sesame paste - 8 grams;
- light soy sauce - 35 ml.
Cooking:
1.Prepare water to moisten the minced meat. Finely chop the ginger and put it in a small container, add Sichuan pepper to it and pour boiling water over it. Leave the water to infuse.
2. Prepare the dip sauce. Mix the ingredients for the sauce carefully in a small bowl and place the container in the refrigerator.
3. The next step is to prepare the dough. Mix in a large dish all the ingredients for the dough (except boiling water). Boiling water must be infused gradually and at the same time, the contents of the dish must be constantly stirred.
4. Wait until the dough has cooled, and knead it by hand. You should get a white elastic and soft dough. Put it back in the dish, cover and let it stand for 15 minutes.
5. Shrimp clean, remove the abdominal and dorsal veins and tail. Divide the shrimp into two halves. Coarsely chop one part of the shrimp, and chop the other until minced.
6. Chop green onion rings. Put shrimp and minced meat, dry chicken stock, onions, salt, white sugar, sesame oil, Shaoxing wine and black pepper in a bowl. Mix everything. Add two tablespoons of ginger water and mix again. Add more ginger water if necessary. Put the filling for the dumplings to marinate in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
7. While the filling is pickled, do the dough. Divide it into 4 parts. Roll each part into a 4-centimeter flagellum. Cut each flagellum into pieces about 3 centimeters thick.
8. Roll out the pieces of dough with a rolling pin to make a round cake 2 mm thick and 8 centimeters in diameter.
9. Put about a teaspoon of the filling in the center of the tortilla. Make dumplings.
10. Put the dumplings in a steaming pan. Steam dumplings can stick to the cooking pan. To avoid this, cover the mold with lettuce or a clean cotton cloth.
11. Pour 300 ml of boiling water into the multicooker bowl. Cook the dumplings for 5 minutes.
Serve Chinese dumplings with dip sauce or regular soy sauce.
Finally
No matter what kind of dumplings you prefer to cook - Chinese or traditional Russian, as a result you get a fragrant and very mouth-watering dish. By the way, it is not necessary to always make dumplings immediately before cooking. It is enough to make a blank and freeze the product - so you get the opportunity to always quickly and satisfying meal.