Seven ways to wrap big dumplings
Overview
Seeing that the Spring Festival is approaching, it’s time to eat dumplings on New Year’s Eve. There are many shapes of dumplings and there are many ways to make dumplings. Here are some ways to make them
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Ingredients
Steps
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Mix the flour with an appropriate amount of warm water and knead it into a dough. The dough should not be too hard. As the saying goes, soft noodle dumplings are delicious and hard noodle noodles are delicious
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Chop the cabbage, green onion, ginger and garlic finely, and stir together with various seasonings
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Stir into dumpling filling
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After the dough has rested for 20 minutes, place it on the counter and knead it until smooth
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Cut off a piece and roll it into thin strips
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Then cut into small pieces
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Sprinkle dry powder and press it with your palms
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Roll out the dumpling skin into a thick center and thin periphery
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The first type: the stupidest dumpling, take a piece of skin and put stuffing on it
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Pinch up the edges. It’s good if beginners can wrap the stuffing and pinch the edges
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Anyway, the taste is the same, just the wrapping is a little slower
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The second type: overlap the two sides and use your index finger to circle the back of the side
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Use both thumbs to press on both sides of the top
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Press hard and the dumplings will be shaped like this
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This is the fastest way to make dumplings and is also a commonly used method
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The third method: overlap the edges and pinch them
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Circle the two corners again
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Finally joined together, this one is called Yuanbao Dumpling
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We use this kind of dumplings to offer to the God of Wealth during the Chinese New Year, or to serve the genealogy after getting up early on New Year’s Eve
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The fourth method: pinch the edges of the dumplings butted outwards and place them like a straw hat, so they are called straw hat dumplings
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The fifth method: roll the edges of the dumpling inward, roll and pinch
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It becomes rolled dumplings
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Type 6: Pinch the edges of the dumplings into pleats
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Called pleated dumplings
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Type 7: Lift the three sides of the dumpling
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Pinch the three sides together
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It becomes a triangular dumpling. Such dumplings are often made with steamed dumplings
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Add water to the pot and bring to a boil, add the dumplings, and immediately use a flat spatula to scoop up the bottom of the pot
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Don't heat the pot too fast after boiling. Wait until the dumplings float to the surface. Take one out and press it until the skin of the dumpling puffs up. It's done
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Dumplings are served