Juicy Pan-fried Gyoza Dumplings
- 150 grams without the core Cabbage
- 1/3 bunch Chinese chives
- 150 grams Ground pork (I recommend a fatty portion)
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp Chinese soup stock base
- 1 tsp Soy sauce
- 1 tsp Sesame oil
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Grated garlic
- 20 Gyoza skins (large)
- Roughly chop the cabbage, and finely chop the chives.
- Put both into a bowl.
- Add all the other ingredients except for the gyoza skins, knead and mix together.
- Wrap the filling in the skins (be generous with the filling).
- Put a piece of plastic wrap on a work surface or dust with flour, and line the formed dumplings on top.
- Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil.
- Line up the gyoza dumplings in the pan.
- (You don't have to brown them at this point).
- Once the dumplings are in the pan...
- Add 100 ml of water (if you want to make "wings," dissolve 2 teaspoons of flour in the water first) to the pan, cover with a lid, lower the heat a bit and cook for 4 to 5 minutes.
- When the dumplings have plumped up, the skins should be translucent enough so that you can see water inside the dumplings boiling away.
- Make sure that almost all the water in the pan has evaporated...
- ...then drizzle in vegetable or sesame oil, raise the heat a bit, and crisp up the bottom of the dumplings and the "wings."
- Lift up and peek at the edges to make sure the bottoms are browned.
- If they look crispy and golden, they're done.
- To freeze them: Line a shallow container with plastic wrap and put the gyoza dumplings in a single layer on top.
- Put in the freezer.
- When the surface is hard and frozen, transfer to plastic bags and put back in the freezer.
- They are uncooked and don't last that long, so use them up quickly.
- To defrost or thaw them: Just cook them as you would freshly made dumplings.
- Make sure the dumplings reach the stage described in Step 5.
- If the insides are still cold they will be awful.
- If you are going to make the skins yourself, see- "Ultra-Easy Gyoza Skins"
cabbage, chinese chives, ground pork, egg, chinese soup stock base, soy sauce, sesame oil, salt, garlic, skins
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/188175-juicy-pan-fried-gyoza-dumplings (may not work)