Pork and Chive Dumplings
Simple but classic steamed pork and chive dumplings for your next dinner with friends.
Servings: 50 dumplings
Ingredients
Dipping sauce
- 20 mL Soy sauce
- 40 mL Black vinegar
Dumplings
- 1 tablespoon Chilli oil
- 500 g pork mince
- 60 g garlic chives approx ½ cup
- 30 mL soy sauce
- 20 mL shaoxing wine
- ½ teaspoon white pepper
- 5 mL sesame oil
- 50 dumpling wrappers gow gee
Garnishes
- 1 Spring onion finely sliced
Instructions
Dipping sauce
- To make the dipping sauce, combine all ingredients in a small bowl.
Dumplings
- In a bowl, add pork mince, chives, soy sauce, shaoxing wine, white pepper and sesame oil.
- Using chopsticks (or your hands) mix filling until 'sticky' in texture.
- Spoon one and a half to two teaspoons of filling on to a dumpling wrapper. Moisten half the edge with water and fold over to make a semi-circle.
- Hold the dumpling in one hand and use the other to create pleats. Press tightly together. Repeat with remaining mixture and wrappers.
- Arrange dumplings into a bamboo steamer basket lined with a round of baking paper - make sure not to crowd.
- Steam dumplings for 10-12 minutes. Serve immediately sprinkled with sliced spring onion and dipping sauce on the side.