New Year’s Eve “Baicai Dumplings”

Overview

The New Year is approaching 2007 with a relaxed pace. Eating dumplings on the New Year has always been a custom. Today's Baicai Dumplings imply good luck, abundant wealth, and a strong flavor of the New Year. They symbolize the renewal of everything in the new year and good luck in getting rich.

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• celery
• cooking wine
• five spice powder
• flour
• ginger powder
• msg
• onions
• pork stuffing
• refined salt
• salad oil
• spinach powder
• soy sauce
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Use spinach powder and knead two pieces of equally soft and hard dough respectively, and knead repeatedly until smooth. Set aside.

   

2. 2 I bought spinach powder online. I have been making this kind of dumplings for many years using freshly squeezed juice and dough (I have made spinach-pressed noodles). Due to time constraints, I used spinach powder this time.

   

3. 3 Roll the dough into strips.

   

4. 4 Flatten the green side and just cover the white side.

   

5. 5 Dip a little water and pinch to seal, then roll into a round shape and knead to desired thickness.

   

6. 6 Get the dose.

   

7. 7 Flatten the dope.

   

8. 8 I forgot to take a picture of a small pot of dumpling filling, so there was only one bowl left.

   

9. 9 Make Baicai dumplings.

   

10. 10 You don’t need too much thin noodles to make dumplings.

    

11. 11 The "Baicai" dumplings are ready.

    

12. 12 Boil the water and cook the dumplings.

    

13. 13 Cook until the dumplings float and swell, then take them out.

    

14. 14 I turned off the heat and fished out the "Baicai Dumplings". I ate them without taking pictures during the family meal time. This time it was not as good as before (but unfortunately I didn't take any pictures before).