Sunday, July 11, 2010

Healthy Dumplings (Jiao Zi)

I had very bad gastric problem recently and have been seeing specialist and still no solution yet.  Since then I've been trying to eat more healthy (less oil, less meat, less fried food, no coconut, less spicy food as well).

However today I have urge to eat dumplings so in order to balance it out, I decided to make healthy dumplings myself instead!  Less meat, more veggie and mushroom...

Here's my recipe for healthy Dumplings (makes about 30 to 35 dumplings):



300g Minced Pork (tell the pork seller to mince from totally lean meat with 0 fats!)
300g Dice Mushroom
300g Dice Spring Onion + Chinese Parsley
300g Dice Carrot
1 Onion dice
1 tbsp Corn flour
1 tsp Sesame Oil
1 tsp Pepper
1 tbsp Fish Sauce
1 tsp Light Soy Sauce
1 pack of ready to wrap dumpling skin from supermarket (make sure it's those for dumplings not wanton)



Just mixed all ingredients and seasoning together and leave it in fridge for 30 minutes.

To wrap, prepare a bowl of water.  Wet the dumpling skin with water to make design you like and scoop a spoonful of ingredients  onto the skin and wrap it up!



Now after wrapping up all the dumplings, you can choose to deep fried it (no no if you are on diet ha ha) or steam it.  I choose to simmer in water+ a bit of oil in wok instead (because I'm lazy to bring out my steamer ha ha)

It takes about 5 to 7 minutes to cook and my healthy dumplings are cooked!  Eat with black vinegar + shredded ginger is the best!!  Have fun wrapping!!

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