How To Make Chinese Pork & Vegetarian Dumplings With Apu Shirley | Family Recipes

Ever wanted to try and make your own dumplings? Lynn learns from her 93-year-old grandma and mom on how to make and wrap traditional pork dumplings! For those who don’t eat meat, Apu Shirley even shares a written vegetarian option at the very end!

Thank you Lynn for sharing your family cooking secrets!

Traditional Pork Dumpling Ingredients:

• 1/2 lb minced pork meat (30% fat, 70% lean muscle
• 1/4 cabbage
• 1/2 bunch Chinese chive
• Ginger (minced)
• 2 stalks of diced spring onion
• 1 egg
• Soy sauce
• Rice wine
• Sesame oil
• Salt
• Fine white pepper
• Water
• Dumpling wrappers (pre-made)

Vegetarian Dumpling Ingredients:

• 1/2 minced cabbage
• 1/2 minced carrot
• 1 celery (minced)
• 5 button mushrooms (minced)
• 5 woodear mushrooms (minced)
• 1/2 bunch coriander (minced)
• 1/4 Ginger (minced)
• Cooked rice vermicelli (minced)
• 2 stalks of diced spring onion
• 2 eggs (cooked and scrambled)
• Soy sauce
• Sesame oil
• Salt
• Fine white pepper
• Water
• Dumpling wrappers (pre-made)