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Authentic Pork Shui Mai (Shumai ) Recipe

Siu Mai is a local traditional dim sum in the Guangdong Province.
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Chinese
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 0.75 kg glutinous rice
  • 0.25 kg of Minced pork belly
  • 20 small dried mushrooms
  • 10 wood jellyfish
  • 1 small carrot
  • 20 green onion
  • 2 tsp light soy sauce
  • 2 tsp dark soy sauce
  • 1 tsp oyster sauce
  • Salt and sugar to taste
  • 2 tps Cooking wine
  • 300 g of flour
  • 150 g warm water

Instructions

  • First clean the mushrooms, add some water to the mushrooms and heat them in a microwave for one minute. After that, let them soak for 10 minutes and then strain the water.
  • While cooking the rice, use about 300 grams of flour, plus 150 grams of warm water and knead into a dough. (If you prefer a translucent skin, you can do this: 75g boiling water and 150g flour or 75g warm water and 150g flour)
  • After kneading the dough, prepare other ingredients. Cut the carrots and green onions. Next, separate the white part of the green onions from the green part, cut the mushrooms and dice the pork belly.
  • Heat up the wok and brown the pork.
  • Move the meat to one side, use the oil at the bottom of the pot to sauté the white part of the green onions, and stir evenly with the meat.
  • Move the meat and green onions to one side, use the oil at the bottom of the pan to sauté the mushrooms and the wood jellyfish, and stir-fry with the minced pork.
  • Then add light soy sauce, and dark soy sauce, stir-fry, then pour the oyster sauce and stir fry, then add the cooking wine, sugar, and finally add the salt. (make sure you count the amount of salt added because you will add the glutinous rice).
  • Add the cooked glutinous rice and mix well. Taste to make sure the seasoning is correct.
  • Wait for the glutinous rice to cool for a while, then mix it with the green part of the green onions.
  • Siu Mai stuffing is ready!
  • Divide the dough into a number of dumpling-sized pieces and knead them into wrappers.
  • Add the Siu Mai stuffing.
  • Make the dough into a pocket to hold the stuffing.
  • Look, a Siu Mai is shaped! Repeated until all the dough is used.
  • Put the prepared Siu Mai into the steamer, steam it for 5 minutes after water boiling, then turn off the heat and leave it for another five minutes.
  • This savory dim sum is now ready to enjoy!