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Pot Stickers

Pot stickers are pan fried Chinese dumplings. Basically pot stickers are just traditional Chinese dumplings (Jiaozi) or Gyoza (Japanese), Kuo Tie (Indonesian Chinese) or Momo (Nepal) but in North America, popular cooking method for Jiaozi is pan fried and because of the way they stick to the pan while cooking they get name of "pot stickers".

Jiaozi is main staples in northern China provinces but especially served during Chinese new year celebration. The shape of jiozi look like golden Yuan Bao, money used during Ming dynasty era and the name sounds like the word for paper money. Therefor it's important to serve Jiozi during Chinese new year as it's a symbol to bring good luck, wealth and prosperity. Jiaozi can be served anytime of the day, breakfast, dinner, lunch, as snack/appetizers or as main meal. Common dumpling fillings are pork, mutton, chicken, shrimps, fish, leek, chives, cabbages. Mostly Jiaozi is typically served with soy based dipping sauce, a mixture of soy sauce, black vinager, sesame oil and chili oil or paste, garlic and ginger also can be added.

You have no need to wait for Chinese new year to taste this traditional Jiaozi since it's very easy to make it at home. In this lens, I would like to share my easy recipe for pot stickers, but if you prefer healthier cooking, you can boil or steam it. If you make a big batch, you can freeze it for future consumption. Let's to be wealthier and prosperous by eating pot stickers/jioazi/gyoza.

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Pot Stickers Recipe

Very easy recipe

Ingredients:
3 dried shiitake mushroom
1 lbs ground pork
1/3 cup finely chopped canned water chestnut
1/4 cup finely chopped spring onions
1 tbsp chinese cooking wine
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp corstarch
1 tbsp water
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sesame oil
a dash of ground white pepper

1/2 cup water
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil

Wrapper:
2 cups flour
1 cup boiling water

Method:
Soak dried shiitake mushrooms in hot water for about 30 minutes or until soft. Rinse and drain. Squeeze out excess water. Cut and remove stems; chops mushrooms finely. Then in a bowl, mix mushrooms, ground pork, water chestnuts, spring onjons, wine, water, cornstarch, white pepper, sesame oil and oyster sauce.

In a mixing bowl, combine flour and 1 cup of boiling water to form a soft dough. Knead the dough for about 5-10 minutes or until its smooth. Divide douh into about 45 small balls. Roll 1 small ball of dough into about 3 inches circle. Then place 1 tbsp pork filling on the center of circle. Make 5 pleats on the edge of one half circle. Fold circle into half and press pleated edge to unpleated edge. Repeat with remaining small balls of dough.

On a wok, heat 2 tbsp cooking oil. Add pot stickers and fry about 2-3 minutes or until bottoms are golden brown. Then add 1/2 cup of water. Cook for about 8 minutes or until water is absorbed. Remove from the heat. Serve pot sticker with mix or 2 tbsp soy sauce and 1 tsp sesame oil as sauce. For more flavor, add chopped garlic to your sauce.

Learn how to pleat your dumplings here

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Some ingredients you may need for your Chinese recipes

Mitsukan Seasoned Soy Sauce for Meat Dumplings is ready to used dumplings dipping sauce.

For more easy cooking, you can buy ready to use pot stickers or gyoza wrapper at Asian/Oriental grocery.

Cooking Tools

May be you need some specific cooking tools to hep you making pot stickers

A good wok will help you to make flavorful pot stickers. This Traditional Cast Iron Wokset is made of cast iron. which can produce and hold heat evenly during cooking process. This model/style is exactly the same model used in Chinese restaurants. Highly recommended. This wok is a must in every Asian kitchen and yours. Great for stir frying and other Asian dishes.

Jiaozi Fun Facts

Pan fried jiaozi called as guotie/wotie/wor tip or pot stickers or yaki gyoza in Japanese cuisine.
Jiaozi similar dishes in other world cuisines are gyoza (Japanese), Momo (Nepal), buuz (Mongolian), jau gok (Cantonese),har gow/hakau (Hongkong shrimp dumpling), dim sim (Chinese inspired Australian dumpling), pierogi (Polish), pelmeni (Russian).
According to Chinese folk tales, jiaozi was invented by traditional Chinese doctor, Zhang Zhongjing and used to treat frostbitten ears.