The dumpling party

It's easy to prepare, budget-friendly and great-tasting, so what's not to love about dumplings! We've got chicken, pork, beef, vegetarian and more dumplings to make.

LIME/LEMON PASSION FRUIT AND MINT REFRESHER

INGREDIENTS

• 4 medium limes - juice only and 4 thin slices for garnish
• 1 passion fruit - scape the seeds and juice
• 4 table spoon of sugarice cubes
• Fresh mint to garnish

METHODS

• Fill the highball or tumbler glasses with 1/3 of water
• Add a table spoon of sugar in each glass - mix well so the sugar can disolve
• Divide the mixture of (lime juice and passion fruit) equally
• Fill the glass with ice cubes
• Garnish with a slice of lime and mint

DUMPLING PASTRY

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup of flour 
• some flour for dusting and adjusting
• 100ml of water
• 1 tsp canola oil optional
• salt optional
• food colour or numeric or egg yolk instead of water optional

METHODS

• Place a cup of flour in a salad bowl and make a well in the middle.
• Pour 100 ml of room temperature water then slowly incorporating all the water and flour together.
• Kneed well for 2-3 minutes
• Rest in the fridge or on the bench for 10min (class room) or 30 min (home)
• Now you can make the mixture with the recipe below
• Roll the pastry into a thumb size sausage and cut them into 1 dollar coin.
• Use a rolling pin to roll them out.

STEAMED DUMPLINGS

Prep 10 mins Making 30 mins Cooking 10 mins (Eat 25 min?)

INGREDIENTS

• 150g chicken mince, pork mince or beef mince 
• 2 leaf of wongbok
• 1 spring onion, some chives
• 2cm piece ginger, peeled, grated 
• 1 chilli optional
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 shiitake mushroom and/or couple of oyster mushroom
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 teaspoons Chinese rice wine
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• meats - can substitute for fish and seafood or 1 cup of crush frozen mixed vegetable and tofu

METHODS

• Using hands, combine mince, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, rice wine, chives and wongbok or cabbage in a bowl. Mix well so the meat will be tendered later on.
• Use the pastry to make a small ball of 1dollar coin. Use the rolling pin to flatten them into 10cm diameter. 
• Spoon 2 teaspoons mince mixture on 1 half of each wrapper. Fold wrappers over to enclose filling.Pleat edges together to seal.
• Keep doing them until you have done with the meats of pastry.