shumai (燒賣)
 
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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
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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
  1. Soak up three to four dried shiitake mushroom for at least 1 hr
  2. Rinse out the sand and squeeze dry, dice into ⅛” chunks
  3. Thaw the shrimp if needed
  4. Chop ¼ pound of shrimp into shrimp paste
  5. Dice ¼ pound of shrimp into ¼” chunk crosswise
  6. Take ½ pound of ground pork out of refrigerator, being chilled will give the best result
  7. In a big mixing bowl, add ground pork.
  8. Add salt, chicken powder, potato starch, sugar and white pepper into the mixing bowl
  9. Add ¼ cup of iced water, mix violently with hand in the same direction or use stand mixer for at least 15 min
  10. ground pork should become paste like, if not, mix for another 5 min until it’s paste like
  11. Add shrimp paste, mix until paste like again
  12. Add shrimp chunks and diced mushroom, mix until even
  13. cut your wonton wrapper into round shape
  14. Take your index finger and thumb, form a round shape hole
  15. Place a wonton wrapper on top of it
  16. Add a tbsp of filling on top of the round shape hole and press down. The shape of shumai should form naturally
  17. Put decorations on top
  18. Steam cook at high heat for 5 ½ minutes
  19. Enjoy
Recipe by It's My Dish at https://itsmydish.com/shumai/