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½ head green cabbage, medium
¾
teaspoon sea salt
½ pound lean ground pork
½ egg white
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 dash freshly ground white pepper
½ teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon riesling or dry white wine
2 green onions including tops, finely chopped
24 siu mai skins
7 cups chicken broth
½ teaspoon sesame oil |
Place cabbage in food processor, cover and finely chop.
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Sprinkle ¼ teaspoon salt over cabbage in medium bowl.
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Let
stand at room temperature 30 minutes. Squeeze excess water from cabbage.
Mix together cabbage, ground pork, ½ teaspoon salt, egg white,
cornstarch, white pepper, sugar, wine and 1 chopped green onion.
Hold siu mai skin in hand.
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(Cover remaining skins with
plastic wrap to keep them pliable.)
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Wet edge of half of the circle
closest to fingers.
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Pinch 2 or 3 pleats into the wet edge.
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Place 1 heaping teaspoon pork mixture in center of skin.
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Fold
circle in half, pressing pleated edge to unpleated edge to seal
dumpling.
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Repeat with remaining skins. (Cover filled
dumplings with plastic wrap to keep them from drying out.)
Heat broth and ½ teaspoon sesame oil to boiling in Dutch oven.
Heat 4 cups water to boiling in 3-quart saucepan.
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Add 12
dumplings.
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Heat to boiling.
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Remove dumplings with slotted
spoon and place in hot broth.
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Repeat with remaining dumplings.
For each serving...
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Place 1 drop sesame oil in soup bowl.
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Add 4 dumplings and broth.
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Sprinkle with chopped green onions.
NOTE: Wanton skins can be substituted for siu mai skins. Cut
off corners to make a circle. |