{"id":13798,"date":"2019-11-09T05:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T05:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/learn-to-cook-chinese-dumplings\/"},"modified":"2019-11-09T05:24:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T05:24:28","slug":"learn-to-cook-chinese-dumplings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/learn-to-cook-chinese-dumplings\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn to Cook Chinese Dumplings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dumplings (Jiaozi\uff0c\u997a\u5b50) are the most popular food in China. Chinese people like to have dumplings especially in Chinese traditio<\/em>nal festivals like Spring Festival.<\/p>\n

\"Learn<\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dough:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 bowls of flour
3\/4 glass of cold water
2\/5 tsp. of salt
3 tsp. of baking powder<\/p>\n

Filling:<\/strong><\/p>\n

300 grams of minced mutton, beef, chicken or pork
A large spoon of salt
250 grams of chopped celery or Chinese cabbages
2 tsp. of minced green onion
2 tsp. of soya-bean oil
1\/2 tsp. of mo<\/em>nosodium glutamate
One piece of minced fresh ginger
2 pieces of crushed garlic coriander
2 tsp. of coriander
1 tsp. of pepper
1 tsp. of sesame oil
1 tsp. of cooking wine
One egg
A tablespoon of soy sauce<\/p>\n

Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Make fillings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Chop button, beef, chicken or pork, and mix it with minced Chinese cabbages or celery.<\/p>\n

2. Add salt, mo<\/em>nosodium glutamate, minced fresh ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine, sesame oil, crushed garlic coriander, minced green onion, pepper and egg.<\/p>\n

3. Mix the ingredients well by stirring them in a co<\/em>ntainer in the same direction.<\/p>\n

Make dough:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Put flour in a container, and pour water in just right amount.<\/p>\n

2. Stir and knead the dough over and over again until it becomes sticky, and becomes a whole.<\/p>\n

3. Lay it aside for a<\/em>bout 25 minutes.<\/p>\n

4. Knead the whole dough in a long slender one, and cut the whole dough into several small pieces, and then knead them again.<\/p>\n

5. Press and roll the small pieces into round thin o<\/em>nes with rolling pin.<\/p>\n

Make dumplings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Hold one piece of dough in your left hand, and then add some fillings in the middle of dough.<\/p>\n

2. Fold the edges of the dough into a half moon shape in the same direction, and press them down solid and tight.<\/p>\n

Cook:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Boil a large pot of water.<\/p>\n

2. Put some dumplings into the boiling water, and stir them slightly in the same direction in case that they stick with each other.<\/p>\n

3. Cover the pot and boil dumplings for several minutes. When the dumplings are floating, you can taste them.<\/p>\n

Eat:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Put some soy sauce or vinegar in a dish, and then enjoy the dumplings with dipping the soy sauce.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n