"Pastry" Shell:-1 cup wheat starch
-2/3 cup rice flour
-1 cup boiling water
-2 tbs oil
*Mix flours together and stir in boiling water. Let dough rest until cool enough to handle and knead in oil to make a smooth dough. Divide into 12 portions.
Filling:
-1/2lb ground pork
-1 carrot
-1/2 onion
-2 shitake mushrooms
-cilantro
-1/2 tsp each: salt, pepper
-1 tsp each: soy sauce, sugar
-2 cloves of garlic
-few slices xá xíu (chinese bbq pork "cha siu", optional)
*Dice carrot, onion and bbq pork. Soak mushrooms in water for a few hours to hydrate and cut into thin slices. Mince garlic and cilantro, mix everything together and divide into 12 portions.
What to Do:
Flatten the wrappers and wrap the filling. Use a rose dumpling tweezer to pinch the dough to form petals (can use you fingers if you don't have the tool). Steam dumplings over high heat for about 15-20 mins, lifting the lid of the steamer every 5 mins to release excess steam. Serve with fish sauce.
Rose Dumpling "Tweezer"
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Hi TT,
The dumplings look very nice and yummy but I can't still imagine how to form those petals for the dumpling. Did you do one petal at a time then connect them together?
Thanks for sharing those recipes!
thi
Thi,
when you wrap the filling you get a round "dumpling". Just pinch the dough to make petals, 1 pinch = 1 petal. I guess it's one of those things you have to learn by doing.
Hey tt,
I am also confused on how to form the rose.
Is it too much to ask you post step by step picture?
Thanks,
Thu
it actually is too much to ask that i take pictures on how to make the roses as I don't make these dumpling often. My advice is to just do it, experiment, play with your food and you'll figure it out.
tt
i never had much success with this pastry skin and i am going to give this one a go. wish me luck.
did you get the tweezer from the asian stores?
lily,
yeah i bought the tweezers from a local asian store. You can use the dough recipe to make dim sum steamed shrimp dumplings by replacing rice flour with tapioca starch.
TT,
You are very talented. This is a perfect example of how creative you are. Keep up the good work.
Nina