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.

20 comments:

  1. 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

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  2. What 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!

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  3. The filling sounds super tasty! Great job!

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  4. Your pleating is really good. Nice plating too. Congratulations on such a fabulous job!

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  5. These look awfully good. The pictures are fantastic.

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  6. I like your risotto filling - very good idea!

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  7. Nice work! Your pleats look perfect, and your filling is very creative. I love seeing what everyone else did with the challenge.

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  8. Gorgeous photos! Nice touch with the radicchio and dill.

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  9. Che meraviglia! E il radicchio...che bonta'!

    Non li ho fatti perche' ho avuto una settimana di fuoco, ma forse li faccio stasera per cena e li aggiungo in ritardo.

    CIAO!

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  10. 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!! :)

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  11. Your filling is so creative! I really want to try these!

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  12. What 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!!!!!!.

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  13. Leftover risotto never makes it past breakfast at my house. Great job on the flavors of your filling.

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  14. Yummy filling and very good looking pot stickers. Such nice thin wrappers and cute pleats!

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  15. Very 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 :)

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  16. Love it how you created a fusion of East and West in this challenge. Brilliant!

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  17. ciao ! Sono bellissimi e con questo ripieno buonissimi di sicuro !!!

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  18. Great filling ingredients!

    They look just beautiful!

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