Cabbage Dumplings

Overview

Cabbage is used to make dumpling fillings with pork. Pork cannot be mixed directly with cabbage. There is an extra step to remove the fishy smell. To remove the fishy smell, you need not only cooking wine but also soy sauce. In addition, water is also added to a good dumpling filling. This water is not ordinary water, but water with a flavor. Guess what water it is?

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• dumplings
• lunch
• dinner
• cabbage
• cooking wine
• coriander
• edible oil
• flour
• onions
• pork
• star anise
• thirteen incense
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• ginger
• pepper
• salt
• soy sauce

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Boil peppercorns and star anise with appropriate amount of water and let cool for use in seasoning the meat filling.

   

2. 2 Add cooking wine to the pork to remove the fishy smell, then add soy sauce and stir in one direction, then add peppercorns and star anise water according to the condition of the meat filling, a small amount several times, until the meat filling is completely absorbed, then add again until the meat filling is neither dry nor wet, cover with plastic wrap and let stand.

   

3. 3 At this time, knead the dough. Add all-purpose flour to cold water to knead the dough. The dumpling wrappers should be softer so that the dumplings are delicious. The kneaded dough is not sticky and is very smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rest for 1 hour.

   

4. 4 Clean the cabbage, cut it into cubes, add a little salt, stir it several times to get out the water in the cabbage, then mash it into a ball, but not too hard, pour out the water, add it to the meat filling, add onion, ginger, oil, etc. to stir, and the cabbage filling will be ready.

   

5. 5 .Knead the risen dough several times again, then divide it into suitable dough pieces, and roll it into a disk shape with a rolling pin.

   

6. 6 Wrap an appropriate amount of cabbage filling into the dumpling wrapper and pinch the seal tightly.

   

7. 7 Put an appropriate amount of water in the pot. After boiling, pour the dumplings into the pot. When cooking the dumplings, adding a little salt to the pot will make the dumpling wrappers stronger. After boiling, add cold water again. If the dumplings float twice, they are cooked.