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Homemade Dumplings from Scratch This Recipe page 1 of 7
Recipe by Suzanne Pan compiled by Jeannie Young
Take time to review this step by step recipe. As you review this recipe, note the
ingredients are flexible, so preparation does vary slightly. Enjoy and gather your
family together to make these dumplings at your next reunion dinner.

Wrapper Ingredients:
• 3 cups of sifted all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup AND 1/2 cup Warm Water

Filling Ingredients and Instructions:
You can decide which ingredient to use. Feel free to use more or less of any
preferred ingredients.

• Vegetables: Most popular are Napa cabbage, cabbage, chives, squash.
All vegetables have excess moisture and there are two methods to
remove moisture.

o Salt – Zucchini Squash, round cabbage and chives. Shred, or chop
then sprinkle salt over vegetables and let sit for 30-60 minutes. The
salt will draw out moisture and you can squeeze out the excess
liquid.
o Parboil vegetables (no salt added) - Napa cabbage and other
Chinese greens. Finely chop the boiled vegetable and put into a
colander. Press and squeeze out the excess liquid.
o ¼ cup Vegetable liquid – use liquid from vegetables. Mix well. Add
a little more vegetable liquid/water if needed to make meat sticky.
o 2 Scallions - mince scallion including white and green parts.
o 1 teaspoon of chopped minced Ginger

• 1 pound Ground meat (turkey, chicken, pork, beef, or a mix)
• Shrimp chopped and minced - If you are not allergic to seafood
o If using dried shrimp, soak in water for 30-60 minutes first)
• Condiments
o 1-2 Tb Salt (no additional salt needed if salt has already been used
to sprinkle onto vegetables to draw out moisture)
o 1 Tb Chinese Cooking Rice Wine
o 1 Tb sesame seed oil
o Optional: Pepper, hot sauce/pepper

Notes:
• If you have leftover filling, you can freeze the filling and make dumplings
later. However, chives do not freeze well.

• You can add shrimp to all meat mixtures, especially when chives are
used, shrimp and chives when combined, compliments each other.