DIM SUM SHRIMP DUMPLINGS RECIPES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the wheat starch, tapioca starch and the salt. Slowly stir in the boiling water and you can see there is no dry flour in the bowl. Set aside for around 5 minutes.
• Add some lard (or not) and knead the flour into a dough until smooth. If you are using cooking oil, add the oil in the middle of your kneading process. Set the dough aside.
• Peel fresh shrimp and devein. Finely mince the shrimp and add cooking wine, soy sauce, pepper powder and chopped ginger firstly. Stir the filling in one direction until you get a paste like texture. Set aside to marinate for around 10 minutes.
• Get the dough out and knead around another 4~5 minutes to punch the air out and then roll the dough into a cylinder around 1 inch and then cut it into small sections around 1 inch diameter.
• Roll the small sections out to thin round wrappers one by one.
• Add chopped spring onions in the shrimp meat and mix well. Wrap the dumplings one by one.
• Slice some carrots slices and put the carrots slices firstly in your steamer and then place the dumplings on the carrots slices one by one.
• Put the steamer in wok, bring water to a boiling and steam for around 10 minutes.

Steps:

• To make the filling:
• mix together all the ingredients except the cornstrach until the mixture is well blended and smooth.
• stir in the cornstrach, mix.
• divide into 30 portions.
• To make the dough:.
• put 2 cups of flour in a medium size bowl.
• reserve remaining flour and use on hands if they become sticky.
• add the boiling water into the bowl.
• add the cold water and oil into the bowl.
• mix to form dough.
• knead until smooth.
• roll dough into a long rope shape and cut into 30 pieces.
• use a rolling pin to roll out each piece into a thin 2 inch circle.
• place a portion of the filling in the middle of a dough circle.
• bring the opposite edges together and pinch them together to hold.
• repeat with remaining circles and filling.
• line a steamer with a damp cloth.
• set the dumplings about 1 inch apart, steam over high heat for 5 minutes.
• remove and serve.