Chinese New Year Dumplings

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    20mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    8
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    463
based on 2 ratings

With a history of more than 1,800 years, dumplings are a classic lucky food for Chinese New Year, and a traditional dish eaten on Chinese New Year's Eve. It is widely popular in China, especially in North China and they usually consist of minced meat and finely chopped vegetables wrapped in a thin dough. Chinese dumplings can be made to look like Chinese ingots and legend has it that the more dumplings you eat during the New Year celebrations, the more money you can make in the New Year.

recipe updated Jan 8, 2025

Ingredients

  • King prawns icon
    King prawns
    150 g
  • Green onion icon
    Green onion
    25 g
  • Water chestnuts icon
    Water chestnuts
    40 g
  • Shiitake mushrooms icon
    Shiitake mushrooms
    80 g
  • White pepper icon
    White pepper
    ¼ teaspoon
  • Ground pork icon
    Ground pork
    500 g
  • Light soy sauce icon
    Light soy sauce
    2 tablespoons
  • Water icon
    Water
    3 tablespoons
  • Corn flour icon
    Corn flour
    2 teaspoons
  • Sesame oil icon
    Sesame oil
    1 teaspoon
  • Granulated sugar icon
    Granulated sugar
    ½ teaspoon
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    ¼ teaspoon
  • Gyoza sheets icon
    Gyoza sheets
    32
  • Cornflour icon
    Cornflour
    as needed
  • Vegetable oil icon
    Vegetable oil
    1 tablespoon
  • Water icon
    Water
    as needed
  • Sweet chili sauce icon
    Sweet chili sauce
    as needed

Tools

  • kCook icon Cooking Chef XL
  • kCook icon Cooking chef xl bowl
  • kCook icon Work surface
  • kCook icon Frying pan - large

Step preview

  1. Attach the K-Beater
  2. Add ground pork, king prawns, green onion, water chestnuts, shiitake mushrooms, light soy sauce, water, corn flour, sesame oil, white pepper, granulated sugar and salt to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  3. Lift the Cooking Chef head and fit the heat shield
  4. Mix with splashguard fitted until combined - 1 min, Speed 1
  5. Place gyoza sheets on a clean work surface
  6. Spoon 2 teaspoons of filling into the centre of each gyoza wrapper
  7. Dip your finger into a bowl of water and moisten the edge of half of the wrapper
  8. Fold the wrapper over and seal
  9. Dust with cornflour lightly
  10. Add vegetable oil to a clean frying pan
  11. Heat in frying pan - medium-high heat
  12. Transfer dumplings to frying pan
  13. Fry in frying pan until golden brown - 5 min
  14. Add water to the frying pan
  15. Quickly cover with a lid
  16. Steam - 3 min
  17. Serve with sweet chili sauce
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