DanDan Dumplings… yeah baby yeah!!!

February 25, 2013 at 1:28 pm (asian, Food/cooking)
Tags: appetizer, asian, chinese, chop sticks, delicious, dipping, dumpling, entertaining, peanut, pork, sauce, snack

“Homemade DanDan Dumplings with Dipping Sauce”

 

    First of I have to give all the credit to my husband for this idea, his idea I just went ahead and made them.. And I would say that by far these are one of the best and most delicious appetizers I have ever made!! Of course the DanDan noodles which I have already blogged about https://schoonerpixieskitchen.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/holy-dan-dan-noodles/. Right now they are our favorite Asian dish, and have served them to friends and family so when John came up with the idea I knew they were going to be amazing, I just didnt know how amazing. … Well let me tell you… how to make them 😉

Dumpling Dipping Sauce

This should be made at least an hour before as you want to combine all the flavours together before eating.

Ingredients:

• 6 tablespoons soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons black rice vinegar
• 1 teaspoon hot chili oil
• 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar, or to taste
• 1 clove garlic, grated with a microplane
• 1 teaspoon ginger grated with microplane (Tip: put your ginger in the freezer to keep fresh and make it easier to grate)

Combine in small bowl and let sit!

The Pork Mix the filling

• 1/2 lbs  ground pork or beef
• 1 tablespoon peanut butter and 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic (about 2 cloves)
• 1 teaspoon minced ginger (I freeze mine then use a micro planer to grate it)
• 1 package of Sichuan preserved vegetables
• 1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
• 1/2 teaspoon salt, or salt to taste
• 1  handful dry-roasted peanuts crushed

First in a med size frying pan on med heat add your heaping tbsp of peanut butter and oil. Let warm and melt.

Remove from heat then add your meat, don’t cook the meat, as you want your filling to be raw!

 

 

Laying your wonton wapper from corner to corner, diamond shaped, add a heaping 1/2 tsp of your filling, take your finger and dip into water bowl covering all edges of the wrapper with water, this helps to seal the wrapper in the cooking process.

Grab the top and bottom tips and squeeze them together.

 Then take the left side in by folding the wrapper in mutiple times towards the middle corner.

 Now it’s time to cook the dumplings, in a large frying pan set at 6 warm with a splash of Extra Virgin Olive Oile. When you can smell the oil lightly add the Dumplings to the pan, let fry for a couple of minutes until you notice the bottoms starting to turn golden.

I dont have a cover for this pan so we used a pizza pan!

Let them steam for 5 minutes and check. They should look like this

Continue steaming until the water dissolves, remove cover and let fry until the bottoms are completely golden.

When golden remove from heat, plate with dipping sauce and chopsticks and get ready to fall in love……

 I hope you all enjoyed this blog as much as I know you are going to enjoy eating these delicious little morsels!!

Any ideas on what I should cook next or comments please feel free to email me at schoonerpixie@hotmail.com

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To be honest I don’t know what is on the menu next but there are a few ideas floating around, one of them being homemade donairs with donair meat made with ground turkey…. Tonight my plan is to cook a new dish for supper so when I figure out what that is I will be sure to share it with you all next time.

Until next time Happy Cooking & Enjoy!!