Soup dumplings

Soup dumplings

Overview

The soup dumplings in Kaifeng, Henan are very famous, especially the soup dumplings on the first floor are even more famous. The store is often overcrowded and it is hard to find one. Although everyone has a secret recipe, the general method is the same, but the ingredients are different. If you make it at home, you can't make it like the one on the first floor, but based on your cooking experience, the filling tastes very good, and the soup bursts out when you take a bite. It's just as delicious.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Cook the skin jelly first, remove the part with a lot of skin, and only take the part without skin

    Soup dumplings step 1
  2. Grate the ginger and make juice for later use

    Soup dumplings step 2
  3. Add salt, sugar, five-spice powder, rice wine and light soy sauce to the meat filling and stir evenly

    Soup dumplings step 3
  4. Pour in ginger juice

    Soup dumplings step 4
  5. Stir until ginger juice is fully absorbed

    Soup dumplings step 5
  6. Cut the jelly into small cubes and pour into the meat filling,

    Soup dumplings step 6
  7. Mix well

    Soup dumplings step 7
  8. Chop the green onion, add appropriate amount of sesame oil and mix evenly. This can lock in the moisture of the green onion and taste better

    Soup dumplings step 8
  9. Finally add onions

    Soup dumplings step 9
  10. Just stir it evenly.

    Soup dumplings step 10
  11. Add flour and water and knead into a dough. Cover with a wet cloth and let it sit for half an hour. Divide into portions and roll into a thin dough

    Soup dumplings step 11
  12. Wrap in fillings

    Soup dumplings step 12
  13. All wrapped up

    Soup dumplings step 13
  14. Boil water and steam over high heat for 8 minutes.

    Soup dumplings step 14
  15. The steamed soup dumplings have soup inside, so the meat filling tastes very tender.

    Soup dumplings step 15