【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings

【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings

Overview

Different fillings for dumplings have different meanings. Leek filling means long-term wealth; celery filling means hard work; cabbage filling means hundreds of wealth; mushroom filling means wealth; so everyone will think about the fillings they want to make in advance to include New Year’s expectations and good blessings! Bao Ma's dumplings usually have two kinds of fillings, one is vegetarian filling, which means a pure and pure new year, and the other is leek and pork filling, which is Jiucai. The dumpling Bao Ma made today is Jiucai dumpling. Not only does the filling have a good meaning, but the shape also has a beautiful meaning: ears of wheat, peace all year round, boxes, and harmony.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Prepare ingredients. Wash the leeks cleanly and control the water. Add flour and water and use a pastry machine to knead the dough.

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 1

  2. Heat the oil in the pan. When the oil is hot, add the eggs directly. Stir quickly with chopsticks to set the eggs. Cut into pieces and turn off the heat. Leave to cool and set aside

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 2

  3. Stir the meat filling clockwise while adding water little by little, not too much, just moist and smooth. Chop the onion and ginger into mince, add to the meat filling, then add cooking wine, soy sauce, thirteen spices, salt, peanut oil, sesame oil, stir clockwise

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 3

  4. Chop leeks

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 4

  5. Place the chopped leeks on top of the meat filling, drizzle with a little peanut oil and mix the leeks well

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 5

  6. Then mix it with the meat filling clockwise (first seal the cut surface of the leek with oil to prevent the soup from coming out)

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 6

  7. The dough is smooth and delicate. (Kneading the dough by hand without a pastry machine takes 1 hour)

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 7

  8. Take a piece of dough, roll it into a long strip, pinch and roll it out. How to make wheat ear dumplings: Take one side of skin, put stuffing in the middle, first make a small tip on the inside as a starting point

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 8

  9. Then pinch a pleat on the left side first

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 9

  10. Then pinch a pleat on the right side

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 10

  11. Keep pinching like this from left to right, and finally pinch until the end ends with a small sharp corner, and the wheat ear dumpling is ready

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 11

  12. How to wrap the box: prepare two dough sheets, put filling in the middle of one dough sheet

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 12

  13. Place the other piece of dough directly on top, then pinch the top edge with your thumb and index finger

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 13

  14. Then use your thumb to press from bottom to top to create a frill

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 14

  15. Use this method to press all the pleats in turn, and the box is ready

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 15

  16. Wheat dumplings and boxes are packaged with gaps left on the curtain

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 16

  17. After the water in the pot is boiling, put the dumplings in, add cold water twice and press the belly of the dumplings with your hands to separate the skin and fillings, then drain them out of the water. When eating, you can dip them in vinegar, soy sauce or garlic sauce according to your personal preference. You can do it as you like.

    【Inner Mongolia】Box Wheat Dumplings step 17

  18. Finished product pictures

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  19. Finished product pictures

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