The dumplings are stuffed but not on the pleats - detailed steps for making dumplings

The dumplings are stuffed but not on the pleats - detailed steps for making dumplings

Overview

On the winter solstice, most places in the north have the custom of eating dumplings. There is a famous saying: If you don’t serve dumplings in the winter solstice, your ears will freeze off and no one will care. Many people say they don’t know how to make dumplings. I took photos of the detailed steps and wrote this recipe. I believe that friends who don’t know how to make dumplings will be able to make dumplings after reading this.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Add a pinch of salt to the flour, add water and mix into a smooth dough, cover it with plastic wrap and let it rise

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  2. Chop the meat into minced meat

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  3. Chop onion and ginger and set aside

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  4. Chop the cabbage and squeeze the water into the meat filling

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  5. Put the meat filling, onion and ginger into a basin, add all the seasonings, use chopsticks to stir in one direction until it is strong (this step requires a little effort, the meat filling is strong, so that it will not fall apart when cooked), marinate slightly

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  6. Add oil to the cabbage stuffing, mix well and let it sit for 10 minutes before mixing it with the meat stuffing

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  7. Punch a hole in the center of the risen dough with your hands

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  8. Hold the dough alternately with both hands while turning it in circles to expand the dough into a ring

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  9. Cut with a knife

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  10. Knead it with both hands into even and slender strips

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  11. Cut into small pieces of dough

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  12. After each cut, turn the dough 90 degrees to make the cut stand up, and then cut another

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  13. The cut dough looks like this

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  14. Hold the dough in your palm with your palm facing down and press it. The dough will become a small round cake with a thick middle

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  15. Use the rolling pin with your right hand to press the dough. Press from one side to the middle and then back out. Turn the dough a little with your left hand. Then roll the rolling pin with your right hand to press the dough. Just press and turn the dough at the same time.

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  16. Roll out each dumpling wrapper with a thick middle and a thin edge

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  17. At this time, mix the meat filling and chopped cabbage together and mix evenly in one direction to form a dumpling filling

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  18. Take a dumpling wrapper and put it on your hand, then put some dumpling filling

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  19. First pinch the middle of the dumpling skin tightly

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  20. Pinch again on one side and pinch tightly

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  21. Then fold the skin over like this

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  22. pinch again

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  23. Then press the remaining skin on this side over like this

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  24. pinch

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  25. Then pinch it on the left as well

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  26. Use the same method to make pleats

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  27. pinch again

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  28. Flatten the last mouth and pinch it tightly

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  29. Voila, a half-moon-shaped dumpling is ready! Isn’t it pretty? Haha!

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  30. A group of chubby dumplings are waiting to be cooked

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