Dumplings have long become synonymous with the Chinese catering industry in the world, and they are always indispensable when families reunite during the New Year. However, today, dumplings have long been accustomed to haunting daily three meals a day. Today I will teach you to make a dumpling filled with radish meat to ensure that it tastes tender and juicy.
【Dumplings with radish meat】
Ingredients to prepare: green radish, cooking oil, star anise, ginger, shallots, front leg meat, salt, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, thirteen spices, pepper, eggs, dumpling skin
The specific steps are as follows:
1. Wash and peel the radish and chop it into cubes. Then put it in a bowl, add an appropriate amount of cooking oil and stir well with a spoon to lock in the moisture and nutrients of the radish and keep the radish itself sweet and refreshing.
2. Prepare the green onion and ginger water, take an empty bowl, break the star anise prepared in advance, and put it in the bowl. Add a handful of peppercorns and sliced ginger and green onion, then pour in half a bowl of boiling water and soak for 15 minutes.
3. Wash and chop pork into puree, if you want to save trouble, you can also use a meat grinder, but the meat puree chopped with a knife is more tough, when the meat tendons are broken, the fiber is loose, the taste of the meat puree will be more smooth and tender.
4. When the green onion and ginger water are soaked, hold the ginger slices and green onion segments in your hand and squeeze them so that the juice inside can be squeezed out. Then take out the remaining ingredients with leakage and throw them away, and then you can pour the green onion and ginger water into the minced meat. Remember to add in smaller and larger amounts, stirring as you go. Stir until the minced meat with enough green onion and ginger water changes from bright red to pink color.
5. To season the minced meat, first add an appropriate amount of salt, two spoons of light soy sauce, a spoonful of oyster sauce, a little dark soy sauce, then add a small amount of thirteen spices and an appropriate amount of pepper, and finally beat an egg, use chopsticks to mix the ingredients and seasonings in the bowl in one direction thoroughly.
6. Pour the chopped radish into the minced meat and stir so that the two can blend together. Then add the chopped green onion in advance and pour the prepared piping hot oil to bring out the green onion aroma. At this point, the dumpling fillings are all adjusted.
7. Take out the purchased dumpling skin, start to wrap the dumplings, use the spoon to dig out the appropriate amount of filling and put it in the dumpling skin, pinch the edges, you can wrap the dumplings according to your habits and favorite methods, I won’t repeat it here.
8. Add water to the pot, first boil the water in the pot, in order to make the dumplings not easy to break the skin in the boiling water, you can first add a spoonful of edible salt to the pot, and then put all the wrapped dumplings into the pot in turn. During this period, you can gently turn it a few times with a spatula to prevent the dumplings from sticking. When the water is boiling, add a small amount of water in a small bowl, so that after repeated operation three times, the dumplings are all floating in the pot, and you can come out of the pot.
【Love Tips】
1. The best meat for dumpling filling is to choose three points fat and seven points lean front leg meat, so that the mixed dumpling filling has a good taste and will not be too greasy.
2. When seasoning the minced meat, do not add cooking wine, because it is difficult to volatilize with cooking wine, and there will be a strange taste.
Eating well and sleeping well is the simplest happiness of ordinary people.
