Sunday, June 14, 2009
Daring Cooks Challenge June 2009 - Chinese Dumplings and Potstickers
The June Cooks' Challenge was hosted by Jen of userealbutter. She chose Chinese dumplings/potsticks, and the recipe she provided was based on her family recipe.
As always, we were incouraged to be creative with fillings and interpretations of the basic recipe.
The dough (two cups of flour and 1/2 cup of water, then adjust) was very easy to handle and stretch. As for the filling I chose sausage, white mushrooms and red radicchio
(leftover of a risotto I made the night before)
With the dough form some circles and place some filling on it
then fold and pinch,
then go on with the pleats
As often happens, as you go on you'll find yourself able to make the dough thinner and the dumplings smaller.
I decided to use the method illustrated by Jen, first pan fry them
and then pour some water, to complete the cooking (lid on until the water boils, lid off after that).
Served on a bed of red radicchio and dill.
Sorry, just forks, no sticks.
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Just love your filling (leftovers from risotto) and the last picture is just beautiful and dill is one of my fav's (I'm from Finland living in Australia). Will have to try this. Cheers
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely dmplings :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to use leftover risotto! I said in my post that I want to wrap EVERYTHING in dumpling now from hereon in! Your dumplings turned out marvelous!
ReplyDeleteThe filling sounds super tasty! Great job!
ReplyDeleteYour pleating is really good. Nice plating too. Congratulations on such a fabulous job!
ReplyDeleteThey look perfect!
ReplyDeleteThese look awfully good. The pictures are fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI like your risotto filling - very good idea!
ReplyDeleteNice work! Your pleats look perfect, and your filling is very creative. I love seeing what everyone else did with the challenge.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos! Nice touch with the radicchio and dill.
ReplyDeleteChe meraviglia! E il radicchio...che bonta'!
ReplyDeleteNon li ho fatti perche' ho avuto una settimana di fuoco, ma forse li faccio stasera per cena e li aggiungo in ritardo.
CIAO!
Once again you've done a great job with the challenge and the pictures! I think after the busy summer, you've inspired me to join the daring cooks! They look delicious!! :)
ReplyDeleteYour filling is so creative! I really want to try these!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great blog site. Love your creativity and photography. Sausage, white mushrooms and red radicchio along with risotto -sounds fabulous. I'm completely blown away by the generosity and sharing of the Daring members. What a great group to belong to and what fun!!!!!!.
ReplyDeleteLeftover risotto never makes it past breakfast at my house. Great job on the flavors of your filling.
ReplyDeleteYummy filling and very good looking pot stickers. Such nice thin wrappers and cute pleats!
ReplyDeleteVery nice! Love the filling (so ingenius!) and your dumplings are sooo cute. The pleats look great and I think you basically gave this challenge the smackdown! Great job :)
ReplyDeleteLove it how you created a fusion of East and West in this challenge. Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteciao ! Sono bellissimi e con questo ripieno buonissimi di sicuro !!!
ReplyDeleteGreat filling ingredients!
ReplyDeleteThey look just beautiful!