Chinese Dumplings Recipes - Steamed Prawn Dumplings Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons raw pork

• 1 Pacific prawn

• 1 dessertspoon Chinese mushrooms

• 1 tablespoon canned bamboo shoots

• good pinch Ve-Tsin (M.S.G.)

• pinch salt

• 1 teaspoon ginger sherry

• few drops sesame oil

• 3 oz. Chinese wheat starch

• hot water

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Method:

1. Cut the pork into smallish pieces. Clean the prawn and cut it up. Chop the mushrooms and the bamboo shoots.

2. Mix them together and pound them into a paste. Add the seasonings, sherry and sesame oil. Work all together and place ready.

3. Heap the wheat starch on an enameled tray. Make a depression in the centre and add hot water, drop by drop, to make a firmest paste.

4. Place it in a basin and steam it for 5 minutes. Remove and form into a roll as soon as it can be easily handled.

5. Cut into 6 equal-sized pieces, about 1 1/4-inches each. With the flat of a chopper, press each into rounds 2 1/2-inches in diameter. Divide the filling between them, rounding the top of each portion.

6. Pinch the edges together into a Dutch bonnet shape. Steam for 15 minutes, transfer to a heated dish and serve.