Sixi Dumplings

Overview

Dumplings are no longer a food for specific days. You can eat them anytime, anywhere, as long as you want. But there is a kind of dumplings that you can’t just eat if you want. This dumpling is Sixi Dumplings (steamed dumplings). The making of Sixi dumplings (steamed dumplings) is relatively time-consuming and contains some specific meanings, making it especially suitable for making and eating during holidays. Old people say that the four corners of Sixi dumplings represent the four happy events: fortune, wealth, longevity, and happiness. They are usually made during the Spring Festival or New Year. In order to get good luck during the New Year, you cannot eat this dumpling normally. Due to their unique shape, Sixi dumplings are only suitable for steaming, that is, they can only be made into steamed dumplings. The countdown to 2019 has entered. In order to warm up for the new year, I made Sixi dumplings in advance. This dumpling made me feel very comfortable just before eating it. When it was served to the table, the eyes of the whole family shone, especially my mother who was as happy as a child.

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• lunch
• dinner
• egg
• lentil kidney beans
• light soy sauce
• pork stuffing
• soaked black fungus
• special wheat core flour for golden arowana dumplings
• warm water
• carrot
• chopped green onion
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare all the ingredients first. Sixi dumplings are steamed dumplings decorated with four colors of ingredients to create a festive atmosphere.

   

2. 2 Pour 140 grams of warm water into 250 grams of dumpling flour, knead into a dough, cover with plastic wrap and let stand for half an hour.

   

3. 3 While the dough is resting, prepare the fillings, wash and cut the carrots into shreds and blanch them, wash and cut the lentils into sections and blanch them, soak the black fungus and blanch them, fry the eggs and chop them into small pieces, and chop the three vegetables separately for later use. Sixi is ready.

   

4. 4 Add salt, light soy sauce, and chopped green onion to the pork stuffing, pour in the arowana peanut oil, mix well, and set aside.

   

5. 5 After the dough has risen, knead it repeatedly until it is smooth and soft. You can feel the texture of the golden arowana dumpling powder when kneading it.

   

6. 6 Roll the dough into a long strip, cut into dough balls, and sprinkle with flour to prevent sticking.

   

7. 7 Roll out the dough into dumpling wrappers. Remember to sprinkle flour on the wrappers to prevent them from sticking.

   

8. 8 Wrap an appropriate amount of meat filling into the dumpling skin, close it inward with the index fingers and thumbs of your left and right hands at the same time, and pinch the middle tightly to form a square dumpling. Do not pinch the four sides.

   

9. 9 Separate the four sides and put four ingredients respectively, chopped carrots, chopped kidney beans, chopped black fungus, and chopped eggs. After filling, it will look like the picture.

   

10. 10 Pinch each of the four corners, or you can leave it alone.

    

11. 11 Place the prepared Sixi dumplings on the steamer. You can use oiled paper as a pad, or you can directly brush oil on the grate. This is optional.

    

12. 12 Turn on the bun steaming function of the steamer and set the time to 12 minutes to start steaming.

    

13. 13 The steamed dumplings are plated and ready to serve. You can display garlic sauce or red oil sauce when eating.