How to make dumplings stuffed with Spanish mackerel?

To make dumplings stuffed with Spanish mackerel meat, the raw material needed is Spanish mackerel. It is delicious and nutritious. Whether it is cooked directly or used as dumpling filling, it is a delicious way to eat it. Let’s learn about its production method and steps below.

1. Nutrition of Spanish mackerel

The meat of Spanish mackerel has few bones, is delicious, nutritious, and has a firm, dense, and cone-shaped texture, which is probably due to its fast swimming speed. In addition to being eaten fresh, it can also be processed into canned food and salty dried products. Qingdao people like to make smoked fish, and Spanish mackerel is the best choice. The smoked Spanish mackerel with unique flavor is a delicious dish that can be eaten with wine and rice. Every 100 grams of meat contains more than 19 grams of protein and 2.5 grams of fat. The meat is firm, delicious and nutritious. Its liver is the raw material for extracting cod liver oil.

2. Production Method

1. Rinse the Spanish mackerel meat and chop it into puree. Put it into a bowl and beat it in one direction to increase the stickiness. Then add minced pork belly, salt, cooking wine, pepper, chopped leek and sesame oil and mix well to make dumpling filling.

2. Knead the dumpling dough, add a little sugar, make dumpling skins, wrap the Spanish mackerel meat filling and shape into dumplings.

3. Add appropriate amount of water into the pot, bring to a boil, put in the dumplings, and they will be cooked after they are twice opened. Remove from the pot and they are done. Dip in vinegar when eating.

Tips: The dumpling skin should be thin to make the dumplings taste good. Spanish mackerel filling is easy to cook and does not need to be cut into three pieces like ordinary meat-filled dumplings.