Northern China

Potstickers

Name: Potstickers
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 cups maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp hot for the dough 1/2 cup for steaming water; 1 tsp divided salt; 300 g chicken mince (ground chicken); 4 leaves finely chopped napa cabbage (wombok, chinese leaf); 2 stalks sliced spring onion (green onion, scallion); 1 inch grated ginger; 2 tbsp divided soy sauce; 2 tsp sesame oil; a pinch white pepper; 1 1/2 tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); 1 1/2 tbsp for the dip chinkiang black vinegar

Named after the part everyone fights over: the crispy bit stuck to the pan.

75 minTime

21 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

421kcal

21 gprotein

3 gfibre

75minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)2 cups

Water½ cup plus 2 tbsp hot for the dough, 1/2 cup for steaming

Salt1 tsp, divided

Chicken mince (ground chicken)300 g

Napa cabbage (wombok, chinese leaf)4 leaves, finely chopped

Spring onion (green onion, scallion)2 stalks, sliced

Ginger2.5 cm, grated

Soy sauce2 tbsp, divided

Sesame oil2 tsp

White peppera pinch

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1½ tbsp

Chinkiang black vinegar1½ tbsp, for the dip

Method

6 steps

1Stir the hot water into the maida with a pinch of salt, knead 5 minutes and rest 30 minutes under a cloth.
2Salt the cabbage for 10 minutes and squeeze dry. Mix with the chicken, spring onion, ginger, 1 tbsp soy sauce, sesame oil and pepper, stirring in one direction until sticky.
3Roll 28 ovals about 10 cm long. Lay a line of filling down the middle, fold over and press the edges together only in the centre, leaving both ends slightly open.
4Heat 1 tbsp oil in a wide pan with a lid on medium. Lay the potstickers in close rows and fry 2 minutes.
5Pour in the 1/2 cup water, cover and steam 8 minutes until the water is gone. Cut one open to check the chicken is cooked through with no pink.
6Uncover, drizzle the rest of the oil around and fry 2 more minutes. Mix the remaining soy sauce with the vinegar for the dip.

Serve it like this

Turn the whole pan out onto a plate so the golden bases face up, with the dip alongside.

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