Recipe book · 75 min
Pork and cabbage potstickers
Juicy dumplings with crisp, golden bottoms. A fun project, and extras freeze for another night.
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How to cook it · about 75 minutes
- Chop the cabbage very fine, toss it with the salt and leave it 15 minutes. Then squeeze it hard in a clean dish towel until no more water comes out — wet cabbage makes soggy dumplings.
- In a bowl, mix the pork, cabbage, finely sliced green onions, minced garlic and ginger, 2 tbsp soy sauce, the rice wine, sesame oil, white pepper and 2 tbsp water. Stir in one direction for a minute until it turns sticky.
- Hold a wrapper in your palm and put a heaping teaspoon of filling in the middle. Wet the edge with a fingertip of water, fold it in half and pinch it shut, making 4 or 5 small pleats along one side. Set them on a floured tray, flat side down.
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in a nonstick skillet with a lid over medium-high. Arrange about 12 dumplings flat side down and fry 2 minutes until the bottoms are golden.
- Pour in 1/3 cup water — stand back, it spits — and cover right away. Steam 6 minutes over medium until the water is gone and the filling is cooked through.
- Take off the lid and let them fry 1 more minute to re-crisp the bottoms. Repeat with the rest.
- Stir together 3 tbsp soy sauce, the rice vinegar and the chili oil for dipping, and serve hot.
- To freeze extras, freeze them on the tray in one layer, then bag them. Cook from frozen the same way, steaming 8 minutes instead of 6.
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