Dim Sum Recipes - Dumplings with Crab Meat

  
 

Dim Sum Recipes - Dumplings With Crab Meat

Ingredients

  • 6 dried mushrooms, soaked in cold water for 30 minutes and drained

  • 2 tbsp sesame oil

  • 1 tbsp chopped spring onion

  • 2 tsp finely chopped fresh green ginger

  • 8 oz crab meat, shell and cartilage removed and flaked

  • salt and pepper to taste

  • 1/4 tsp sugar

  • 1 tsp soy sauce

  • 1 tbsp sherry

DUMPLINGS

  • 2 cups flour

  • 1/2 cup boiling water

Method:

  1. Cut off the mushroom stalks and chop the caps finely. Heat the oil in a frying-pan. When the oil is very hot, add the spring onion, ginger, mushrooms and crabmeat and stir-fry for 3 minutes over moderately high heat.

  2. Stir in the salt, pepper, sugar, soy sauce and sherry and stir-fry for a further 1 minute. Remove from the heat and set aside.

  3. Sift the flour into a bowl, then gradually pour in the water, mixing until all the flour is incorporated and the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl. Cover with a cloth and set aside for 30 minutes.

  4. Roll out the dough into a sausage about 2.5cm/1 inch diameter, then cut into slices about 2.5cm/1 inch wide. Flatten the slices until they are about 7.5cm/3 inch in diameter.

  5. Put a teaspoonful of the crabmeat mixture on one side of each circle, then fold over to make a semi-circle. Seal the edges by pinching them together.

  6. Half-fill a large saucepan with water and bring to a boil. Put the dumplings in a heatproof bowl or the top half of a steamer and place over the boiling water. (If the dumplings will not fit in the bowl in one layer, steam them in two batches.)

  7. Cover and steam the dumplings for 10 minutes. Serve hot.