Chinese: Steamed Pork Dumplings (Shiu Mai)
- 1 pk mundoo pi (dumpling wrapper) round skins
- 1/2 pound shrimp
- 12 each mushrooms, chinese small or use canned but squeeze dry
- 1/2 pound pork ground
- 2 each scallions, spring or green onions finely chopped
- 1 small eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce, tamari thin
- 1 teaspoon oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- Shell, devein, wash, and drain prawns.
- Dice into bits.
- Boil mushrooms in water for 10 minutes, rinse, squeeze dry, cut off and discard stems; then chop into very small pieces.
- Combine the pork, mushrooms, prawns, and onion.
- Put mixture on chopping board and chop 10 to 15 strokes with cleaver.
- (Use a sharp knife if you don't have a cleaver.)
- Texture, when you're finished, should be slightly finer than hamburger.
- Add "seasoning" and the egg to the pork mixture.
- Mix well.
- To make dumpling, place 1 Tb filling in the center of a dumpling skin.
- Then bring all sides of the skin up to cover the meat as much as possible, without closing.
- The top of the dumpling is left open.
- Cook dumplings by steaming for 30 minutes.
- Use as many as you need, with the rest, cool, wrap, freeze.
- Reheat after thawing by steaming 10 minutes.
- Serve with soy sauce, hot sauce, or mustard.
mundoo, shrimp, mushrooms, pork ground, scallions, eggs, salt, sugar, sesame oil, soy sauce, oyster sauce, cornstarch
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/chinese-steamed-pork-dumplings--555 (may not work)