Yuanbao Dumplings
Golden Dough: Pumpkin 200 grams (peeled) | Flour 300g |
Silver Dough: Flour 300g | water 155 grams |
Dumpling filling: pork 300g | Green onions 1 root |
Water Chestnut 150g | Salt 2 grams |
Soy sauce 1 small spoon | ginger 2 tablets |
white pepper 1/2 tsp |
Step 1
Peel and steam pumpkin;Step 2
Mash the pumpkin into puree, add flour and knead into a smooth dough, cover with plastic wrap and let rest;Step 3
Add flour to water and knead into a dough, cover with plastic wrap and let rest;Step 4
Chop green onions into small pieces and set aside;Step 5
Chop ginger and set aside;Step 6
Chop water chestnuts and set aside;Step 7
Mix the dumpling filling ingredients together and stir clockwise until evenly mixed;Step 8
Roll out the golden dough;Step 9
Use a cookie round mold to carve out round dumpling wrappers;Step 10
Place meat filling in the middle of the dumpling skin;Step 11
Fold the dumpling wrapper in half, pinch the edges and press thin;Step 12
Use a smaller cookie cutter to make a mark on 2/3 of the semicircle dumpling;Step 13
Then connect the two ends of the semicircle and pinch the interface tightly;Step 14
In the same way, use white flour to make silver ingot dumplings;Step 15
Steam the dumplings for 8 minutes. If they are big ingots, they need to be steamed for 10 minutes;Step 16
Steamed dumplings can be eaten with dipping sauce (mash garlic, mix with soy sauce, vinegar and sesame oil), or they can be eaten boiled. Adults can eat steamed ones, and children can eat boiled ones, which are easier to digest.Step 17
During the Spring Festival, I made some extra mini Yuanbao dumplings as food supplement for my second baby. I put them in a sealed box and froze them. I just took them out and boiled them when I wanted to eat them. Yuanbao dumplings cooking tips1. It is best to choose the kind of pumpkin with low moisture content. If the pumpkin has high moisture content, pay attention to the proportion of flour and adjust it accordingly when kneading the dough. The dough should not be too soft or too dry;
2. Green onions are used for dumpling fillings because green onions have the effect of relieving coughs, but children usually don’t like to eat them, so when making dumplings, they mince them and mix them with meat, and the children are willing to eat them. The key is that they can’t eat them, so be smart;
3. Chopped water chestnuts can be used as fillings to relieve greasiness and prevent colds. They are very suitable for eating in winter and will make the dumplings crispy and chewy;
4. Yuanbao’sThe size can be determined according to the preferences of the family. For example, my family has elderly people and children, so I will make a batch of large Yuanbao dumplings for the adults to eat with dipping sauce. At the same time, I will also make a batch of small mini Yuanbao dumplings. When children cook and eat it, there is no need to put dipping sauces on them. You can also use less vinegar and sesame oil as dipping sauces for children to eat;
5. As a supplementary food for older babies, I will also make some more mini Yuanbao dumplings and put them in safe boxes. This time I made two boxes, spread a layer of plastic wrap and put one layer in. One box can have three layers, cover it and put it in Chill in the refrigerator. I went to work, and grandma could take it out at home and cook a few for the second baby as a complementary meal to satisfy the second baby's craving.