Welcome to my blog! My name is Brad and I started this blog for sharing food and drink recipes to those who love food like me. In the last several months, my wife and I have strayed away from fast food to save money and for our health benefit. It has been a great change in our diet and my wallet, haha. Honestly I can’t remember the last time I stopped at a fast food joint because we cook so much now. We have learned that we enjoy cooking more and we have created some pretty awesome dishes just from simple recipes. We have friends come over and we trade recipes and we may cook one night and then they’ll cook the next. We feel that it brings people together and we enjoy that. The best thing about recipes, you can alter it to your taste preference and I enjoy talking about food to other people with different taste palates.
Now for our first recipe: Pot Stickers! Or Chinese Dumplings, depending on what you call them. I love Asian foods, and I find that I can’t find any Chinese/Japanese restaurants around the area that I live that fry their dumplings, it’s always steamed/boiled. We pretty much took a basic recipe and winged it. We made about 35 of these, for 4 people as an appetizer. They were delicious and we nailed the flavor. The caramelized wrappings brought out the steamed flavor of the meat and it was just amazing.
Ingredients:
Half head of cabbage
Carrots
Ground Pork
Won Ton Wraps
Soy Sauce
Garlic Powder
Salt
Pepper
Vegetable Oil
Prep And Cooking Steps:
Put ground pork into a large bowl. We will use this to mix the ingredients.
Finely shred carrots and cabbage and put into the mixing bowl with the pork.
Add a pinch of salt and pepper. Season to taste with garlic powder and soy sauce. Mix well. (We used about 3 teaspoons of soy sauce and a pinch of garlic powder)
Get a small bowl and add water, you will use this to dab your fingers in to maneuver the won ton wrappings. Also note when you open the wrappings, you need to place a damp paper towel over them so they don’t dry out. If they dry out, they become very hard to close and pleat with the filling inside.
Here comes the tedious part, take a wrapper and put a spoonful of the filling in the center of the wrapper. Don’t over stuff or they will fall apart when you are boiling them. Dab your fingers in the water and close the wrapper around the meat and pleat. You may have to keep dabbing your fingers, the water will help the wrapper stick together so the meat won’t fall out.
Boil a pot of water. Put the pot stickers into the pot and boil until they are translucent. When they’re translucent, take them out and set aside.
Put the boiled pot stickers into a frying pan and fry them in vegetable oil until golden brown/caramelized.
They are ready to serve and enjoy!
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