One of the favorite dinners at our house for the peanut gallery (my kids) is a big steamy pile of dumplings. The kids will inhale them like they've been starving for a week. Once they arrive on the dinner table, it's practically a skirmish with forks and chopsticks, and sometimes they won't bother with utensils, little grabby fingers dive for the dumpling plate.
I make the dumplings very simple in our house. There's probably about a million different ways you can make them, with the variety of things you can put inside as stuffing, but my kids prefer to keep it simple.
What you will need for some basic Dumplings:
Wonton Skins, Ground Beef, Tofu, Green Onions, Garlic, Soy Sauce, Sesame Oil
Use a food processor and puree the tofu block down.
Mix with the ground beef and add in the chopped green onions and minced garlic.
Mix together until it is all well blended. (Yeah it looks gross, but I promise it's tasty!)
Let the mixture rest for 30 minutes before making dumplings to give it a chance to soak up the flavor. Put a small spoonful of your meat mixture in the center of the wonton skin. Wet the edges of the wonton skin and fold in half to bring the edges together. Set on tray and place your finished wontons in the freezer to solidify. Bring water to a hard boil and place steamer in the pot of water. (I have a nifty little fold out steamer that I got at the Korean Market)
Spray the steaming rack with PAM to avoid the dumplings from sticking to the steamer. Let dumplings cool and enjoy. If you have kids, grab yourself a few before they inhale them all, like my kids do!
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