Asian Cuisine

[Boone]

I really love a variety of Asian foods (with apologies for lumping them into that poorly descriptive and ubiquitous category given how diverse a range of foods that 'describes')...

I have made any number of Korean dishes and love the flavor profiles in many of their traditional offerings. I am going to try my hand at making Chinese dumplings today including making my own dough which is very simple, literally just flour and water. Planning on doing some with pork/cabbage filling and some with ground lamb and carrot/zucchini filling. Going to boil some of them (that's the traditional way of cooking them) and air-frying some as well. Will do a soy/vinegar/ginger based dipping sauce and some fried rice to go with.

If anyone wants to give dumplings a try, here is a basic recipe/instruction resource that's pretty good https://mamalovestocook.com/chinese-dumplings-recipe/

Anyone else have asian foods in their repertoire?

 

[Boone]

I didn’t really care for the air fried version but the boiled dumplings were great. Need to roll them a little thinner next time and learn to seal them without folding the dough over on itself as those parts were too thick and tough. Fun making them from scratch though and easier than I thought it would be.

 

[Canadian Hog]

Mrs. CH has a pho soup that she makes for us in the Fall/Winter that is pretty awesome. She has adapted it into a vegan recipe so that I can eat it, but I still enjoy it very much in this format.

 

[Chris]

I didn’t really care for the air fried version but the boiled dumplings were great. Need to roll them a little thinner next time and learn to seal them without folding the dough over on itself as those parts were too thick and tough. Fun making them from scratch though and easier than I thought it would be.

Wonton wrappers are great for this, for ravioli as well. Very thin and can be sealed with an egg wash. Thickness wouldn’t be an issue.

 

[Boone]

Thanks Chris, I have used wonton wrappers in the past and you are 100% correct. Wanted to see how well I could do from scratch. Verdict reached - the dough itself was surprisingly easy to make, very simple. Rolling out suitably thin dumpling wrappers is an art form and one I probably don't have the patience to master. It's kind of like growing celery - it's possible, but why do it when the storebought version in ready and waiting?

 

[Boone]

Mrs. CH has a pho soup that she makes for us in the Fall/Winter that is pretty awesome. She has adapted it into a vegan recipe so that I can eat it, but I still enjoy it very much in this format.

Yeah - I love Pho in any form. The broth is so good by itself the other ingredients are just icing on the cake.

 

[Chris]

Thanks Chris, I have used wonton wrappers in the past and you are 100% correct. Wanted to see how well I could do from scratch. Verdict reached - the dough itself was surprisingly easy to make, very simple. Rolling out suitably thin dumpling wrappers is an art form and one I probably don't have the patience to master. It's kind of like growing celery - it's possible, but why do it when the storebought version in ready and waiting?

Yeah, sometimes the juice just isn’t worth the squeeze.