Chive Pocket

In China,  people celebrates New Year eating buckets of dumplings, chive pockets is one of them. I find this very addictive, you easily gobble up a few at one go because it is very light, tasty and healthy snacks as well. I used nearly zero oil to pan fry them. Some people like to do it like the way you fry and steam the fried dumplings.

Green Bean Xiaolongbao

Chinese Cabbage Pork Dumplings

Ingredients
Filling
Minced pork ( 10% fat)  about 550g
Spring onions  130g
Chinese Cabbage   about 550g

Chopped ginger  2 tbsp
Shaoxing wine  1 1/2 tbsp
Light soy sauce  1 1/2 tbsp
Sesame oil  2 tsp
Oil  2 tbsp
Salt  1 1/2 tsp
Cornflour  1 tbsp



Ingredients
Dough
Plain flour  500g
Water (room temperature)  262g
Salt  4g

Celery Beef dumplings

Yes, I am still into dumplings making. My family loves it so much and, they can finish them so quickly. For a change, this time I actually use more meat than vegetable here. it is juicy, tender, with crispy skin.  You can have it boiled too if you like , just go with your favourite dipping sauce.

Cucumber Dumplings

Cucumber for making dumplings here, great combination with dried shrimps. Flavour is good.

Radish Pork Dumplings

After some practice, I finally can make thinner skins which my family likes, though the original dumplings should be thicker. I actually used another half batch of filling for this thin texture.

Duo Colour Dumplings

I have been practicing how to make dumplings for the past two weeks,  This experiment has proved to me that dumplings can also be made with a good texture even if you don't use potato starch.

Wholemeal Big Meat Buns

Beef steamed buns with lots of vegetable.  Make lots, wrap and freeze them so you can always have some for lazy weekend dinners at home.  Go with any kind of dipping sauces you like....vinegar and sesame oil, chilli oil, chilli sauce, chilli, mustard sauce, XO sauce, what else?
Oh yes, they are soft, moist, fluffy and very filling buns :)

Dark brown sugar pumpkin mantou

             A small batch of Mantou for my Shanghainese neighour again, just good for their breakfast.

Beef Pancake ( Bing)

Sesame crispy Bing ( baked)

                                                                Simple, tasty "Bing"

Dual colour Huajuan (mantou)

                        I made this for my Shanghainese neighbour again, pumpkin Mantou.

Chinese " Bing "

"Bing" is a wheat-flour based chinese food with a flattened or disk-like shape.  It is usually a casual food eaten for lunch, or also can be incorporated into formal meals.  Bing are commonly cooked on a skillet or baked.

Beef cabbage steamed bun

 I made some quite big sizes of steamed buns,  one or two is enough to satisfy us.  It's great for lazy meals in weekends.  Great to dip in with some sauces, like vinegar mixes with sesame oil, even with mustard and chilli sauce.  

Birthday Longevity Peach buns

                      These buns go well with my Chinese Red Eggs   just perfect for my dad's birthday :)

" Chinese Roti"

            These are quite healthy roti because you can have full control of the oil and salt used.

Taro wholemeal oat buns (egg)

Moist, fluffy and light texture

This is the yummiest Mantou I have made so far.

Wholemeal curry beef bun and Fried Bun

     Love the colour as well as the flavour from the buns.

Black Sesame Mantou ( steamed bun)

                                                         
 More Mantou..

Hua Juan Mantou ( Flower steamed buns)

                                                   I finally get to do this experiment :)