Happy Lunar New Year! January 28, 2017 is the first day of Lunar Calendar of the rooster year. In China, people start celebrating the most important festival-Spring Festival. Even I cannot celebrate it with my family, but I cannot miss one of the important cuisines during Chinese new year. That is dumpling! In Chinese we call it Jiao Zi "饺子“, which is a homonym for ”交子” meaning the moment of the transferring to new year. Thus, people always eat dumplings to celebrate the coming of new year. In addition, there is another explanation of eating dumplings: the shape of dumpling looks like gold ingots, thus it also symbolizes wealth. Nowadays, dumpling becomes a cuisine not only for festival, but a common daily dishes. Now, let's learn how make delicious dumplings! Depending on your taste, different fillings can be used to make dumplings. Today I am going to introduce you the dumpling with pork and cabbage I made with friends for the celebration of Chinese New Year. Ingredient: 1.5lb minced pork 6 leaves of cabbage,chopped dumpling wrappers minced ginger minced scallion, light soy sauce salt oil First Step: Make fillings: well mix pork, cabbage, ginger, and scallion all together (according to your taste, add appropriate ginger and scallion) Add 3 spoon of soy sauce Add half spoon salt Add half spoon oil Well mix the fillings again Second Step: Dampen the edges of the wrapper with water, scoop appropriate of filling on it. Then, click the following file to download a short video to learn how to wrap! Third Step: Put your beautiful dumplings on a large plate or container, remember to put powder as a base on the plate so that the dumplings will not stick on the plate, also do not put dumplings close to each other, avoiding them sticking on each other. Fourth Step: Put dumplings into boiled water and stir slowly with the back of a ladle. Once the dumplings float on the water, continue to boil about 1 minute using low heat. Then scoop out dumplings. Last Step! Enjoy it! Usually I like to eat it with vinegar, you also can make sauce depend on your taste. Thank you for your reading!
Visit my YouTube, click the playlist of "How to make dumplings", you will find the full video from CiCi Li to follow making dumplings. (The second video from Maggie Zhu will teach you how to make dumpling wrappers).
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