Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, steamed prawn dumplings. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Steamed Prawn Dumplings is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Steamed Prawn Dumplings is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Line a steamer basket with baking paper with holes, place the dumplings, keeping space between each. Some people use Cabbage OR Wombok Leaves instead of Baking Paper. Great recipe for Steamed Prawn Dumplings. For a long time I wanted to cook this 'Steamed Prawn Dumplings' but I never tried because I believed that I could not get the ingredients.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook steamed prawn dumplings using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Steamed Prawn Dumplings:
- Take Wrappers
- Get 100 g Wheat Starch
- Take 50 g Potato Starch, Corn Starch OR Tapioca Starch
- Get 1 pinch Salt
- Get 160 ml Boiling Water
- Make ready 1 teaspoon Vegetable Oil
- Take Filling
- Make ready 200 g Uncooked Peeled Prawns
- Take 1 teaspoon Sake (Rice Wine)
- Get 1 small piece Ginger *finely chopped
- Get 50 g Bamboo Shoot *finely chopped
- Get 1 Spring Onion *lighter colour parts only, finely chopped
- Get 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- Get White Pepper as required
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Sugar
- Make ready 1-2 tablespoons Potato Starch, Corn Starch OR Tapioca Starch
Set the basket in a pot of boiling water. Arrange an oiled plate inside a steamer. Heat up water in the pot on which you are going to place the steamer basket. Scatter carrot slices in the basket, then place dumplings on top of each slice (this is to avoid sticking).
Instructions to make Steamed Prawn Dumplings:
- Make Filling first. Prawns must be well drained. Coarsely chop up and place 1/2 of it into a bowl. Finely chop up the rest of it, and place in the bowl.
- Sprinkle with Sake (Rice Wine), add Vegetables and seasonings, mix well, then add 1 tablespoon Starch and mix well. If it is too wet, you can add extra Starch.
- Prepare the work surface where you make wrappers. You need a dough scraper or something similar. (It works better than a rolling pin.) You also need a damp tea towel.
- In a heat-proof mixing bowl, combine Wheat Starch, Potato Starch (OR other Starch) and Salt. Carefully add Boiling Water and quickly stir with chopsticks or spoon until combined. Then add Oil and knead until smooth.
- Divide the dough in half, roll each into a log, cut each log into 12 pieces, then cover with damp tea towel to prevent drying.
- Lightly oil the work surface and the scraper. *Note: Dusting with Starch makes the dough dry. I recommend to use Oil.
- Place 1 piece Dough on the work surface, flatten with your palm, then use the dough scraper (OR something similar) to press it down into a thin round wrapper as you move the scraper in circular motion.
- Place 1 heaped teaspoonful of filling in centre and wrap it. You can find many wrapping technics on the internet. Today I started folding pleats on one side, keep folding pleats until the wrapper becomes a cup shape, then close and secure the edges.
- Repeat with the remaining dough. - *Note: Work 1 piece at a time. Dough needs to be worked straight away, and do not leave the dough to rest, otherwise it becomes unworkable. - *Note: If the dough feels a little bit dry, knead it with your hands, form into a ball, then press it into thin wrapper. - *Note: I have found this method is much easier than rolling pin method.
- Line a steamer basket with baking paper with holes, place the dumplings, keeping space between each. You can use Cabbage OR Wombok Leaves instead of Baking Paper.
- Steam for 15 minutes or until cooked through. *Note: You can steam in many ways. The below picture is a saucepan steamer, though not many dumplings could fit in. I lined it with baking paper with holes.
Heat up water in the pot on which you are going to place the steamer basket. Scatter carrot slices in the basket, then place dumplings on top of each slice (this is to avoid sticking). Place the basket in when the water is boiling. To assemble and cook the dumplings: Turn on the stove to pre-boil the water in the steamer. Add a spoonful of filling and fold the dumpling as shown in our video.
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