Eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice—delicious mackerel stuffing

Eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice—delicious mackerel stuffing

Overview

The winter solstice is a very important solar term in the Chinese lunar calendar and is also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The winter solstice is commonly known as the Winter Festival, Changzhi Festival, Yasui, etc. In most parts of China, there is also the custom of eating dumplings in the north and glutinous rice balls and pumpkins in the south on this day. Proverb: When the winter solstice comes, eat dumplings. December 22, 2013 is the winter solstice. According to Chinese customs, the winter solstice happens to be a Sunday and it is obligatory to eat dumplings. I took out the big mackerel I bought some time ago, which is only 1,000 grams. I prepared the ingredients and started immediately.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Pour 800 grams of water into the pot, add ginger slices and peppercorns, bring to a boil and simmer for about 5 minutes

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  2. Let the filter residue cool and set aside

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  3. Thawed Bay Mackerel, peeled and deboned,

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  4. Peel out the fish meat and chop into minced meat

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  5. Chop 5 fat and 5 lean pork into minced meat

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  6. Put the surimi and minced meat together

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  7. Pour into the mixing bowl and stir while adding the seasoning water in small amounts in batches. Add the seasoning water after it is completely absorbed each time until all the water is added to the minced meat

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  8. Place the minced meat in a container, add sesame oil and peanut oil and mix well

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  9. Add appropriate amount of pepper, salt and chicken essence and stir

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  10. Then add an appropriate amount of Vidami soy sauce

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  11. Finally, add the washed and chopped leeks and mix well

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  12. Add 900 grams of flour to 450 grams of warm water to form a smooth dough and leave it for 1 hour, kneading the dough twice in the middle. Roll the rested dough into long strips and cut into uniform-sized balls, then roll them into dumpling wrappers

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  13. Take a wrapper and put an appropriate amount of dumpling filling

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  14. Hold the two sides with both hands and squeeze it

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  15. The wrapped dumplings are placed on the curtain

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  16. Bring the water to a boil, add the dumplings one by one, and order water twice in total after each boil

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  17. The floating dumplings are ready to be taken out of the pot when they are full and your belly is bulging

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