Entering spring and recalling mother’s taste – two-color shepherd’s purse pot stickers

Entering spring and recalling mother’s taste – two-color shepherd’s purse pot stickers

Overview

Life is getting better and better, and we eat more and more big fish and meat. However, it is always difficult to bring up our appetite, and I always miss those hard-working meals from my childhood. The most impressive thing is that there is always a wild vegetable on the spring table - shepherd's purse. With that special natural fragrance of dust, no vegetable or wild vegetable can represent the taste of spring better than it. In the spring of her childhood, she could be found everywhere in the fields with a bamboo basket. She would always pick up a full basket, and go home and light a kerosene lamp. She would hold her head in her hands and watch with wide eyes as her mother made various delicacies, such as shepherd's purse cakes, shepherd's purse stewed tofu, shepherd's purse dumplings, shepherd's purse steamed buns, etc. The most unforgettable thing is the crispy shepherd's purse pot stickers. It was her who accompanied us through difficult springs one after another. It is also the various ways of eating shepherd's purse that my mother made that gave me a desire to explore food since I was a child. In order to learn how to cook food, when I was 7 years old, when my mother was not at home, I lit a fire and made a fragrant pot of shepherd's purse pot stickers and waited for my parents to come home as a surprise. As a result, the shepherd's purse pot stickers were not made, and the big tile-roofed house was burned to the ground. Haha, children, please don’t imitate me. If you want to learn, you must have a parent beside you for guidance and safety precautions.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Take 5 grams of yeast powder and divide it into one portion of 3 grams and one portion of 2 grams. Put it into two bowls. Add an appropriate amount of warm water to each and mix well. Add less 2 grams of warm water (because this portion is used to ferment pumpkin flour, and pumpkin itself contains a lot of water). Soak for about 10 minutes.

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  2. Take 250 grams of flour and pour 3 grams of yeast water into it. Hold the chopsticks and stir in one direction along the edge of the basin until it becomes fluffy and there is no broken flour in the basin. Then knead it into a dough little by little with your hands. Take it out and put it on the board and knead it skillfully with the heels of your hands until the dough is smooth. Place it in the basin and cover it with plastic wrap to ferment

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  3. Use the same dough-making method, take 150 grams of flour, add sifted pumpkin and mix, add 2 grams of yeast water and continue stirring, stir until flocculent and knead it into a dough by hand, take it out and knead it smooth on the chopping board, put it in a basin and cover it with plastic wrap to ferment

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  4. While the dough is fermenting, start making the shepherd's purse stuffing. Blanch the shepherd's purse, chop it and filter the water. Add chopped shiitake mushrooms, minced pork, crushed shrimps, a spoonful of seasoning pepper, a little chopped chili (optional), chopped green onions, an appropriate amount of salt, a little MSG, one egg, an appropriate amount of vegetable oil, stir in one direction with chopsticks and set aside. You can leave off the salt first and then add it when filling.

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  5. The two kinds of dough are fermented until twice the original size. Take out and sprinkle with flour and start kneading the dough until there are no big holes. Cut the original color dough into small pieces of the same size, shape them, and then roll them into round slices. Take about 2 grams of the kneaded pumpkin dough, roll it into a round piece, and cut it into two semicircles

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  6. Place the two semicircles at corresponding positions of the original color dough, as shown in the picture

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  7. Use a rolling pin to roll it out again and flatten it out. This will make the pumpkin dough stick more firmly

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  8. Turn the dough over and put an appropriate amount of shepherd's purse filling on the opposite side

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  9. Pinch the two pumpkin semicircle sides together, and use your fingers to pinch out small patterns on the sides of the pumpkin surface, as shown in the picture

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  10. Wrap and ferment for about 10 minutes, put it into a heated pan or heated electric pan, add a small spoonful of vegetable oil, and then add half a bowl of water. Cover the pot and fry for about 4 to 5 minutes. When you hear the sound of water drying up in the pot, basically there will be golden and crispy noodle rice noodles under the pot stickers. At this time, you can lift the lid and look at it to prevent the rice noodle from sticking. If the rice noodle has not yet formed, you can fry it for another minute. Take it out after frying, and you can enjoy the fragrant shepherd's purse pot stickers.

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