Easy and delicious homemade garlic and ginger pork potstickers, cooked in a delicious sauce!
Ingredients
12ouncepackage round potsticker or gyoza wrappers, about 50 wrappers
1/2poundground pork
2cupsfinely shredded cabbage
1 1/2tablespoonsfinely minced ginger
3 to 4baby portabella mushrooms, finely diced
1carrot, grated
5small garlic cloves, finely minced
2 to 3green scallions, diced
1large egg
1tablespoontamari or soy sauce
2teaspoonssesame seed oil
1/2teaspoonEACH: salt, black pepper
For Frying (per batch):
2tablespoonsoil
2tablespoonssoy sauce
1/4cupwater
rice flour, for storing potstickers
Instructions
Making the Filling:
First, prepare the filling. In large bowl, combine the ground pork meat with the prepared cabbage, ginger, carrot, green onion and garlic and mix well using a spoon. In separate, small bowl whisk together the egg, soy sauce and sesame oil. Add this sauce to the filling mixture and season with salt and pepper. Mix well.
Assembling the Potstickers:
Remove the wrappers from their packaging, then keep them covered with slightly damp towel, to keep them from drying out. Make one dumpling at a time - place approximately 1 teaspoon of pork filling into the middle of each wrapper. Moisten the edges very lightly with water using a pastry brush or your finger. Fold the wrapper in half and make 6 small pleats along the edge to seal the wrapper. Place the dumplings seam-side up on large baking sheet sprinkled with rice flour and keep the potstickers covered with damp towel. Press them down just slightly to flatten out bottom.
Cooking the Potstickers:
To cook the potstickers: Preheat a large, flat skillet over medium heat with several tablespoons canola oil. Once the pan is hot, add the dumplings – arrange them seam side up in a tight circle so they are touching until pan is filled (it can take 2 to 3 batches to fry all dumplings). Fry on medium heat uncovered for 1 minute.
Mix together the water and soy sauce (2 tbsp soy sauce and 1/4 cup water PER pan) and add to pan – tilt the pan to distribute water evenly. Cover and turn the heat down to low. Steam the dumplings for 4 minutes, then remove cover and let them fry until bottoms are golden brown, about 2 more minutes. Remove the pot stickers from the pan carefully and repeat with remaining dumplings.
Serve the pork dumplings with soy sauce mixed with a dash of sesame oil and eel sauce or sweet chili sauce.