Three Color Clam Dumplings

Overview

Dumplings are a favorite food of our whole family, especially for my son who is a picky eater. It is a delicacy that he will never tire of eating. However, mothers have to think a lot about how to incorporate the foods that their children don’t like, especially vegetables, into their favorite foods, and then change the dislike to like, and then gradually accept the food until they like it. I have used this method several times recently to coax my child into eating a lot of vegetables that he would never even look at or even take a bite of. Just like today's three-color dumplings, it contains spinach, amaranth, mushrooms, and celery, which my son usually doesn't like to eat. But when I unknowingly added these ingredients into his favorite dumplings, it was so happy to see how enthusiastic my son was about eating them~

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• old man
• breakfast
• dumplings
• spring festival
• celery
• chicken essence
• chives
• flour
• pork stuffing
• purple sweet potato
• shiitake mushrooms
• spinach
• carrot
• ginger
• salt
• soy sauce

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Steam the purple potatoes in a pot in advance, mash them into a puree with a spoon, and set aside at room temperature.

   

2. 2 Wash a small handful of spinach, cut into sections, put it into a food processor and puree it into green spinach juice. Use a sieve to skim off the foam and reserve the juice for later use.

   

3. 3 Take an appropriate amount of flour and slowly pour the green spinach juice into the flour.

   

4. 4 While pouring, use chopsticks to stir the flour into a fluffy consistency.

   

5. 5 Use your wrist strength to knead the fluffy flour vigorously.

   

6. 6 Knead the dough into a smooth surface, then cover it with a semi-wet kitchen cloth and let it rest for half an hour.

   

7. 7 Cut the carrots into cubes, put them into a food processor to squeeze the juice, then pour an appropriate amount of carrot juice into the flour and knead it into an orange dough. Let it sit for half an hour as well.

   

8. 8 Add appropriate amount of purple sweet potato puree to flour and knead into a purple dough.

   

9. 9 While the dough is rising, prepare the filling. Blend the pork into minced meat using a food processor. Add salt, minced ginger, sesame oil, minced green onion and a little soy sauce, mix well and marinate for about ten minutes.

   

10. 10 Use a food processor to chop the mushrooms into small pieces.

    

11. 11 Prepare a larger pot. Wash and chop the celery, add the marinated meat filling, add the mushrooms, add appropriate amount of salt, chicken essence, sesame oil, thirteen spices, mix well.

    

12. 12 Divide the risen dough into two. If the dough is large, divide it into several smaller doughs.

    

13. 13 Take a piece of dough and roll it into a round strip about 2cm in diameter.

    

14. 14 Cut the long strips into even pieces with a knife.

    

15. 15 Flatten into a round cake shape with your palms.

    

16. 16 Pinch one end of the round cake with your left hand, push the rolling pin under the palm of your right hand, and rotate the round cake to the left with your left hand. Repeat until the dough has been rolled out in one circle.

    

17. 17 This is the rolled dumpling wrapper. (The same method is used for the other two colors of dumpling wrappers).

    

18. 18 Put appropriate amount of filling on the dumpling wrapper.

    

19. 19 Fold in half and pinch the folded edges firmly. Use the thumbs of both hands to seal the mouth.

    

20. 20 Press the right top with your right thumb to the left.

    

21. 21 Continue pressing the thinned tip to the left. Press down continuously to form a pattern on the edge of the dumpling.

    

22. 22 Beautiful clam dumplings are ready.

    

23. 23 Finished product pictures

    

24. 24 Finished product pictures

    

25. 25 Finished product pictures

    

26. 26 Finished product pictures

    

27. 27 The cooked dumplings are served to the table. Enjoy and eat them. O(∩_∩)O