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Shanghai Dumplings 餃子 (Serves 10)
To watch a cooking video of this recipe: https://youtu.be/QUeKbMq0kgA
Ingredients:
1 lb Pork (finely ground)
½ lb Raw Shrimp (finely chopped)
½ lb Baby Bok Choy (boiled one minute, chopped finely)
1 Large Egg
1 Tsp Corn Starch
1 Tsp Chinese Cooking Wine (Shaoshing Cooking Wine)
1 Tsp Sesame Oil
1 Tsp Sugar
1 Tsp Chicken Flavor powder
½ Tsp Salt
½ Tsp Ground White Pepper
1/3 cup Chicken Broth (canned)
1 package Medium Thick Wonton Wrappers
(approximately 60 pieces)

Filling:
Squeeze out all the moisture from chopped greens. Drain well.
Put all the above ingredients together in a large bowl.
Mix all together and stir in one direction until it feels sticky.

Preparation:
Place one teaspoon of filling into a wonton wrapper and dab water across one side of
wrapper, fold wrapper in half and join wet and dry edges together. Press edges gently.
Dab right side of wonton wrapper at edge of wrapped meat. Holding joined wrapper
edge and wrapped wonton up, fold gently to join and pinch wrapper together. Dumpling
resembles a gold ingot.

Cooking:
Boil water in a large pot, when water is at a rolling boil, gently put all the wrapped
dumplings into the boiling water. Stir gently to insure dumplings do not stick together or
to the bottom of pot. Cook for 10 minutes and dumplings will float to the top.

Serve with hot chicken broth and with vegetable or side dish.

Shared by Sifu Wenjie Zhan

Dumplings at Chinese New Years:
The tradition is on New Year's Eve, close to midnight, the family gathers together to
prepare and eat the dumplings. By eating these dumplings, you are sending away the
old year and welcoming the New Year. Also dumplings resemble gold ingots, which
symbolizes wealth. Whether you make the dumpling by rolling out your own homemade
dough or buy pre-made wrappers from the store, the intent is to gather your
family together to make the dumplings. Togetherness is very important to start the New
Year.