Shanghai Dumplings With Pork. Chives and Kale

Both my boys enjoyed the chinese dumplings. They love it so much that they can have a meal just full of dumplings. I think dumplings are one of the very balanced meals. It has all the protein, veggies and carbo from the skin. I try to make this at home as i can put more vegetables but it is a very labour intensive task.

I found some time to get myself ready for some dumplings making. As i am quite crazy about kale recently, i added them as well.

The measurement is really base on taste. No strict rule to it.

These are the ingredients for my dumplings:

-500gms of mined pork

- bunch of kale leaves (only the leaves)

- 2 bunch of chives.

- Garlic- 2-3 cloves

-ginger - i thumb size

-dried chinese mushrooms

- gyoza dumpling wrapper

- Soy sauce

- sesame oil

- Chinese rice wine

- pepper & salt

Method

- minced everything, as small as you can manage

- mixed in everything in a bowl and add in all the seasoning to taste.

You can always mix and match whatever filling you like.

This is the amount of Kale in my dumplings. haha

After mincing everything, a big bowl of filling ready for wrapping

It took me 2.5 hours to wrap over a hundred dumplings. I used the tripple pleat method as it looks very pretty but google has alot of other easy method to wrap

I flour the dumplings and store them in the freezer.

To cook, just simply boil a big pot of water and throw the dumplings in frozen. Once the dumplings are cook, they will submerged to the top. it will be around 7-10 minutes.

We usually have dumplings with a Quick Vegetable Soup. I will post a recipe of this quick soup next.

We tried this dumpling yesterday and the skin i used it not very nice as it was very tough and thick. I will be using this wrapper that my friend recommends next time. Putting the picture here so I will remember the right brand to buy next time.