Recipe: At Home Simple Chinese Dumpling Dough

Recipe: At Home Simple Chinese Dumpling Dough Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Simple Chinese Dumpling Dough. This dough is the foundation of many excellent dumplings, including Chinese jiǎozi, Korean mandu, and Nepali momo. The process of making the dough is easy to master, especially with a little help from modern tools such as a food processor (though you can mix the dough by hand). For Dough: Place flour in a bowl and make a well.

The dough should not be sticky (similar to pasta dough).

The ultimate guide to making Chinese dumplings from scratch.

The dough can be used for both boiled dumplings (shui jiao, 水饺) and potstickers (guo tie, 锅贴).

You can have Simple Chinese Dumpling Dough using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Simple Chinese Dumpling Dough

1. You need of Cake flour.

2. Prepare of Strong bread flour.

3. You need of Beet sugar.

4. Prepare of Salt.

5. You need of Baking powder.

6. You need of Lukewarm water.

7. Prepare of Canola vegetable oil.

The dumpling wrappers are tender and thin, with a silky mouthfeel.

If you are really pushed for time, of course you could also skip over the Chinese dumpling dough recipe and buy store bought wrappers.

However, I promise you that fresh homemade dumpling wrappers taste so much better!

Honestly, this is the best Chinese dumpling recipe and I cannot thank the moms from HKIS enough for sharing this with me.

Simple Chinese Dumpling Dough step by step

1. Add the cake flour, bread flour, beet sugar, baking powder, and salt to a bowl and mix with a whisk..

2. Add 110 ml warm water to the bowl as well and mix with a spatula. When its no longer lumpy, knead the mixture until it has a consistency that feels like an earlobe..

3. If your dough feels too hard, wet your hand with the remaining warm water and knead. Repeat this until the dough reaches the right consistency..

4. Add the canola oil to the mixture and continue to knead until blended..

5. Gather the dough into a ball and place it in a bowl. Cover the bowl with cling film and let the dough rest for 10 minutes..

6. Split the dough into 6 equal parts. Turn each piece out onto a dusted surface and use the palm of your hand to flatten it into a circle shape. Roll the dough out with a rolling pin until it has a diameter of 15 cm..

7. Hold a piece of dough flat in your left hand and add 1 tablespoon of filling to the center. Wrap the filling with the dough, drawing the edges upwards..

8. Lastly, pinch the top close and twist to seal..

9. Put the dumplings in a steamer lined with cabbage or parchment paper and steam for 10 minutes.

Today I'm sharing the dough recipe for boiled dumpling, Chinese style.

To make dumplings for steaming or pan-fried, check out my other recipe here.

I even made them in different flavours!

As I mentioned just now, there are several ways to cook dumplings.

Depending on the method of cooking your dumplings, the recipe for.