Name: Delicious Pot Stickers (Guo Tie)
Yield: Makes 20 dumplings or serves 4 as an appetizer or snack
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: Dumpling dipping Sauce, for dipping; 3 dashes white pepper; ½ cup (80 g) thinly sliced Chinese (napa) cabbage, squeezed of excess water; 1 teaspoon Chinese rice wine or sherry; One 1 in (2.5 cm) piece fresh ginger, peeled and grated; 2 tablespoons finely chopped green onion (scallion); 20 store-bought pot sticker wrappers or homemade dumpling Wrappers; ½ cup (125 ml) water; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon sesame oil; 1½ tablespoons oil; 4 oz (100 g) shelled and deveined medium-sized raw shrimp; 8 oz (250 g) ground pork

Preparation info

Makes 20 dumplings or serves
4
as an appetizer or snack

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Easy Chinese Recipes

By Bee Yinn Low

Published 2011

About

My Chinese friends from mainland China introduced me to dumplings—the much-loved morsels of ground meat and vegetables wrapped with dough skin. Dumplings are a staple of Chinese cuisine, especially in Northern China. The best dumplings are the ones that are lusciously plump, thin-skinned, and stuffed with just the right amount of filling.

There are many types of dumplings: boiled, pan-fried, steamed, or deep-fried. The most-loved is probably the pot sticker, Guo Tie. P