How to make cabbage and pork dumplings

A home-cooked cabbage and pork dumplings will surely make you salivate. The delicious food will awaken your taste buds once it is placed on the table. The method of making cabbage and pork dumplings is a bit complicated and the process is a bit tedious, but the taste is sure to be great. Food with patience is full of a warm feeling. It can be boiled, slow-cooked, or braised, and the taste is all very good.

1. Scoop noodles: This is the amount for two or three people, 400g of flour

2. After kneading the dough, cover it with a wet cloth and let it rest for 20 minutes.

3. Prepare the dumpling filling ingredients: 1/3 cabbage, about 10 garlic sprouts, 150g pork filling, 1 green onion

4. Take out the ready-mixed meat filling and put it in the seasoning bowl

5. Add 25ml of water to the meat filling and stir clockwise to allow the water to blend into the meat filling and become a sticky paste.

6. Seasoning: add salt, soy sauce, chopped green onion, ginger powder (or minced ginger, pepper oil (fry peppercorns in a hot pan with cooking oil), dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, chicken essence

7. Stir the filling evenly in a clockwise direction.

8. Chop garlic sprouts

9. Chop the cabbage, sprinkle a small spoonful of salt, and let the water seep out

10. Use cage cloth to squeeze out moisture

11. Add garlic sprouts and cabbage into the meat filling.

12. Stir evenly and the filling is ready.

13. Knead the dough a few more times on the chopping board, then hold it in your heart and make a hole in the middle. Stretch the dough thinly while turning it.

14. Cut it in the middle, then put it on the chopping board and rub it up and down with both hands until it becomes of appropriate thickness. Bend the two ends to align them and prepare the cutting agent.

15. Cut the dough... cut it, pull it down, turn it 90 degrees and cut it again, pull it up, turn it 90 degrees and cut it again. Repeat this process up and down. The cut dough will be convenient for making dumpling skins in the next step.

16. Sprinkle a little flour, hold the dough upright and press it with your palm, it will basically be round.

17. Press all into round shapes

18. Roll the dough: Hold the dough in your left hand and a small rolling pin in your right hand. Roll it with your right hand and turn the dough counterclockwise with your left hand. Repeat this process until the dumpling skin becomes thin around the edges and slightly thicker in the middle, as shown in the following figure.

19. Making dumplings: Put an appropriate amount of stuffing in the middle (especially for beginners, put a little stuffing at the beginning). Be careful not to let the stuffing stick to the edge of the dough, as the oil in it may cause the dumplings to crack when cooked.

20. Fold the dough in half and pinch it from right to left.

21. Squeeze all the way

22. Align the middle of the dumpling with the middle of your right index finger, place it between your right thumb and index finger, and align the tip of your right thumb with the middle of the upper part of the dumpling

23. Place your left index finger under your right index finger, and point the tip of your left thumb towards the middle of the top of the dumpling.

24. Gently squeeze your thumbs together.

25. Molding

26. Wrap it all up

27. Boil dumplings: Boil the dumplings in boiling water. Before the dumplings float up, stir them several times from the bottom of the pot with a spatula. After the water boils, add cold water three times to boil. When the dumplings are cooked, they can be removed from the pot.

28. Garlic vinegar: vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, minced garlic

29. Take out the dumplings

30. Two bowls in total.

31. Serve the meal

When you are unhappy, just cook something. Cabbage and pork dumplings are a dish that can make people happy. It is a delicious dish that brings a sense of happiness to your tongue.