Sunday 7 January 2018

Vegetable Dumplings Recipe


Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 45 mins

Ingredients For The Dough
1 ½ cups plain flour (maida)
2 tbsp oil
salt to taste


Ingredients For The Vegetable Filling
½ cup shredded cabbage
½ cup carrot juliennes
¼ cup chopped mushrooms (khumbh)
¼ cup finely chopped asparagus
2 tsp finely chopped ginger (adrak)
½ tsp pepper powder
2 tbsp soy sauce
salt to taste

Ingredients For The Red Sauce
1 tomato
3 garlic (lehsun) cloves
2 dry red chillies , broken into pieces
salt to taste

Ingredients For The Black Sauce
½ cup soy sauce
1 tbsp honey
2 tsp vinegar
2 tsp roasted sesame seeds (til)
salt to taste

Method For the vegetable filling
1. Heat the oil in the wok, add the ginger and sauté for for a while.
2. Add all the remaining ingredients and sauté for a few more minutes.
3. Remove from heat and divide into 25 equal portions. Keep aside to cool.

Method For the red sauce
1. Boil a vesselful of water and put the tomato in it for a few minutes. Remove, peel and keep aside.
2. Dry roast the red chillies till they are crisp.
3. Combine the tomato, garlic, dry red chillies and salt and blend to a smooth sauce. Keep aside.

Method For the black sauce
1. Combine all the ingredients and mix well. Keep aside.


How to proceed for Vegetable Dumplings?
1. Combine all the ingredients together for the dough and knead into a soft pliable dough.
2. Roll out into a big cylinder.
3. Divide into 25 equal portions.
4. Roll out each portion into very thin circle of approx. 50 mm. (2") diameter.
5. Place one portion vegetable filling in the centre of the rolled circle.
6. Bring together the edges and pinch them with your fingertips to make dumplings.
7. Repeat with the remaining dough and filling to make 24 more dumplings.
8. Steam in a greased steamer for about 10 minutes.
9. Serve hot with the red and black sauces.
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