Shrimp dumpling (蝦餃)
 
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Shrimp dumplings are also known as Har Gow. It's delicious and fun to make
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Recipe type: Appetizer
Cuisine: Chinese
Serves: 16 pcs
Ingredients
Har Gow filling ingredients
  • 13 oz of shrimp
  • ½ tsp of salt
  • ½ tsp of white pepper
  • 1 tbsp of cornstarch
Har Gow skin ingredients
  • ½ cup of wheat starch
  • ½ cup of sweet potato starch or potato starch
  • ½ cup of boiling water
  • ½ tsp of salt
Instructions
  1. Defrost 13 oz of shrimps
  2. Grind 6.5 oz of shrimp into shrimp paste with cutting knife by chopping repeatedly.
  3. Add ½ tsp of salt, ½ tsp of white pepper and 1 tbsp of cornstarch into shrimp paste, mix until it’s sticky.
  4. Put in refrigerator for later use
  5. Chop each of the 6.5 oz of shrimps into half crosswise
  6. Put in refrigerator as well
  7. Take 1 cup of sweet potato powder, 1 cup of wheat starch and mix well
  8. Boil 1 cup of water and add into the mixture, mix well to form the dough
  9. cut the dough into 16 pieces
  10. Make Har Gow wrapping with the side of knife
  11. Wrap the Har Gow, put about 1 tbsp of shrimp paste and 1 shrimp chunk
  12. on steam cooker, steam on high heat for 6 min
  13. Ready to serve
Recipe by It's My Dish at https://itsmydish.com/shrimp-dumpling/