Shumai Recipe
Steamed pork dumplings topped with green peas for their signature look
Ingredients
- 10 oz ground pork
- 1/2 brown onion
- 3 dried Shiitake mushroom
- 1/2 tsp ginger root (grated)
- 3 Tbsp cornstarch
- 1/2 Tbsp soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp Sake
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- pepper
- 12-15 Shumai or wonton wrappers
- 12-15 green peas
- 2-3 leaves of lettuce or nappa cabbage
Vinegar Soy Sauce
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp rice vinegar
- Japanese yellow mustard
Instructions
- Chop brown onion finely. Re-hydrate dried Shiitake mushrooms in water, squeeze water out, and chop finely.
- In a large bowl, add pork, onion, Shiitake mushrooms, cornstarch and all the seasonings. Mix very well until combined.
- Wrap the meat mixture with the Shumai skins (watch video) and shape into little cylinders. Top with a green pea on each dumpling.
- Lay lettuce flat in the inside of a steamer. Place Shumai on the lettuce, and cook in a steamer for 10 minutes at medium heat.
- Mix soy sauce and vinegar. Serve with sauce and mustard.