Home Made Pork and Chives Dumplings

From Fusion Meals

Wrapped and ready for cooking

From Fusion Meals

Wrapped and ready for cooking

From Fusion Meals

Just cooked and ready to serve

From Fusion Meals

Just cooked and ready to serve

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)