Vegetable Dim Sim Recipe
Cooking is an important part of life. You could spend hours in the kitchen or order takeout, but the best advice I have is to get all of your hands dirty and experiment at home. In this article, you will learn how to make a Dim Sim Recipe at home. Dim Sim, or dumplings, is a Chinese/Asian food dish often served during the Chinese New Year. It consists of small steamed dumplings stuffed with a mixture of pork, vegetables, and dried buckwheat husks. The dumplings are boiled and served in soup or broth. Some versions of the dish include rice noodles.
Ingredients
- 250 grams Minced pork
- 1 piece Grated ginger
- 1-2 Cabbage Leaves Chopped
- 2-3 Shiitake Chopped
- 50 g Cooked Bamboo Shoots Chopped
- 1/2 tsp Sugar
- 1 tbsp Potato starch flour
- 1/4 Onion Chopped
- 1 tsp Sesame Oil
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 2 Extra Cabbage Leaves
- 1 tsp Soy sauce
- White pepper
- 20 Wonton Skins OR Gyoza Skins
Instructions
- To make the mixture, mix finely chopped vegetables with pork mince, add seasonings, and mix until it becomes pasty.
- Fill the skins of the wontons or gyoza with one heaping tablespoon of the filling each. You can fold the edges up. Make pleats on the dumpling with your hands. To flatten the dumplings, tap them on a work surface. Continually fill and wrap remaining wontons/gyozas.
- Put the dumplings on top of cabbage leaves and steam them.
- Steam the vegetables in a steamer pan or saucepan and heat the water over high heat. In two batches, steam the dumplings for about 15 minutes each.
- You can serve it with soy sauce & mustard or your favorite dipping sauce.