A good fun dish you can make at home, shumai is also known as siu mai, shaomai or pork dumplings. Although it can be called pork dumplings, you can have a great deal of shrimp in it
Author: Jeff Kang
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Cantonese
Serves: 3 ppl
Ingredients
½ pound of ground pork (coarse ground preferred)
½ pound of shrimp
4 dried shiitake mushroom (about ¼ cup diced shiitakes)
1 tbsp of potato starch
½ tsp of salt
¼ tsp of white pepper
1 tsp of chicken powder
1 tsp of sugar
¼ cup of ice water (or crushed ice)
1 bag of wonton wrapper (need 16 to 20 wrappers)
Instructions
Soak up three to four dried shiitake mushroom for at least 1 hr
Rinse out the sand and squeeze dry, dice into ⅛” chunks
Thaw the shrimp if needed
Chop ¼ pound of shrimp into shrimp paste
Dice ¼ pound of shrimp into ¼” chunk crosswise
Take ½ pound of ground pork out of refrigerator, being chilled will give the best result
In a big mixing bowl, add ground pork.
Add salt, chicken powder, potato starch, sugar and white pepper into the mixing bowl
Add ¼ cup of iced water, mix violently with hand in the same direction or use stand mixer for at least 15 min
ground pork should become paste like, if not, mix for another 5 min until it’s paste like
Add shrimp paste, mix until paste like again
Add shrimp chunks and diced mushroom, mix until even
cut your wonton wrapper into round shape
Take your index finger and thumb, form a round shape hole
Place a wonton wrapper on top of it
Add a tbsp of filling on top of the round shape hole and press down. The shape of shumai should form naturally
Put decorations on top
Steam cook at high heat for 5 ½ minutes
Enjoy
Recipe by It's My Dish at https://itsmydish.com/shumai/