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Background:
Brought back some Chinese chives from my parents' garden and decided to put them to use in making one of my favorite dishes - pork and chives dumplings. Not only is this dish tasty, but it is also extremely easy to prepare and quite inexpensive to make.
- Makes ~40-50 dumplings
- Serves 4 adults
- Total Cost = ~ $4-5
Ingredients:
- 1 lb ground pork
- 1/2 cup chopped Chinese chives
- 1 TB minced ginger
- 2 TB soy sauce
- 1 TB Chinese vinegar (black)
- 2 TS salt
- 1 Package dumpling wrappers
Prep:
- Mix the ground pork with ingredients and set aside
- Prepare a small bowl of water for the purposes of sealing the dumpling
- Bring pot of water to a low boil
- Wrap dumpling by spooning a small dollop of the ground pork mixture onto a dumpling wrapper
- Wet the rim of the wrapper with water (using your finger is fine)
- Press to seal the edges of the dumpling and crimp to make "scallop" shape (optional - see pictures for example)
- Repeat until pork mixture/wrappers are gone
- Cook in boiling water for ~ 5-10 min or until dumplings float - do not crowd too many dumplings in the pot or they will tend to stick
- Enjoy with dipping sauce: soy sauce (2 parts)/vinegar (1 part)/sugar (to taste)/hot sauce mixture (1 part)
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