Name: Banana & Nutella Gyoza with a Dusting of Sweetened Toasted Soybean Powder
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 2 ripe bananas; 6 tsp Nutella; 1 tsp caster (superfine) sugar; 1 ripe banana, cut into 12 slices (3 slices per plate); 50 g (1¾ oz) toasted soybean powder (known as kinako; available from Japanese food shops); 2 tbsp sunflower oil; 25 g (1 oz/¼ cup) icing (confectioners’) sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Nikkei Cuisine

By Luiz Hara

Published 2015

About

Banana and Nutella – a combination made in heaven! Gyoza are normally prepared as a savoury snack, but my sweet Nikkei version of gyoza is inspired by the crêperies of Paris, where this pairing is a much-loved classic. I love serving them with a scoop of Sesame caramel ice cream.

Ingredients

12 gyoza wrappers (fresh or frozen)
2 ripe bananas
6 tsp Nutella

Method

If you’re using frozen gyoza wrappers, then take them out of the freezer 30 minutes before you need them but do not open the packet until you’re ready to start, as they will dry out.

Cut the bananas in halves lengthways then cut each half into 1cm (½in) pieces. Put some cold water in a bowl and set aside.

When you are ready to start making the dumplings, open the gyoza packet, t