Seafood Potstickers
Make and share this Seafood Potstickers recipe from Food.com.
Cantonese Style Pork and Shrimp Dumplings
The dumplings consist of pork, shrimp, watercress, water chestnuts, and assorted seasonings, and they are absolutely delicious!
Har Gow (Shrimp Dumplings)
Although these are some work, you’ll be very proud of the results. These are those lovely, translucent dumplings you get at dim sum places. The tapioca flour and wheat starch can usually be found at good oriental food stores. These are best made in a bamboo steamer. I’ve included a recipe for a dip but you can use your own favorite dumpling sauce if you wish. This is a Madame S.T. Ting Wong recipe. Prep time includes fridge time for the shrimp mixture.
Sticky Rice Wrapped in Bamboo Leaves (Joong or Zhongzi)
A soy-free version of the Chinese Sticky Rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves, known as Joong, or Zhongzi that are traditionally eaten in late Spring for the Dragonboat Festival. You can buy them at Asian supermarkets (like T&T here), and my husband’s family makes them, but they all have ingredients my son can’t have. Usually these have dried shrimp or scallop, mushrooms, nuts, soy sauce, 5-spice powder, chinese sausage and egg, but yummy as they are, these all make my son itchy, so I improvised! Special thanks to W.K. Leung for his pictorial description here: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=88644 You may want to see the pictures of the various packages he uses. If you don’t need to avoid all those ingredients, you’ll probably want to follow his recipe, as this one is a little bland (shhh, don’t tell my son…) Wrapping the dumplings is tricky – I had to watch a few different videos, and even then, my first one took about 20 minutes! Eventually I figured it out. My best ones ended up as somewhat rectangular pyramids, rather than the tetrahedrons I usually see. This is a fairly time-consuming project, most families make it a group activity! Preparation time below is for one person doing it all herself for the first time, with a little “help” from my little man, and does not include overnight soaking time.
Crab “soup Dumplings” (Dim Sum)
Not soup with dumplings in it, but dumplings with soup in them. This is a famous kind of steamed dumpling for dim sum. You bite a little hole in the dumpling, then carefully sip the scalding hot broth out of it, then dip the rest of the dumpling in a dip and eat. It’s amazing how they get it inside-out like that. I have just learned, from a cookbook called “Dim Sum and Other Chinese Street Food” by Mai Leung, that the secret is to gel some broth with agar-agar and seal the solid broth inside the dumplings. When the dumplings are heated, the broth liquifies again, so you get dumplings full of soup. I haven’t tried this recipe yet, but I don’t usually make my own dim sum, so I thought I’d go ahead and post it for those who do. She says you can only make these a few hours in advance, and if you do, you should refrigerate them before steaming.
