Chinese Style Pork with Prawn Dumpling Soup

Had a go at making shrimp dumpling for the first time tonight. The wrapping of 60 dumplings took me about an hour to finish. Good thing for home video to entertain me while my hands were hard at work:)

For the soup based, instead of chicken stock, I went with pork bones and with carrots instead. Turned out relatively well in my humble opinion...except I got to rem to add black fungus and add more pepper next time round. 

Dumpling Ingredients

1. 100g minced pork

2. 250g of prawns

3. 4 stalk spring onion

4. diced 4 water chestnuts

5. 3 cloves minced garlic

6. 1tsp Sesame oil, 1tsp pepper, 1tsp salt, dash of sugar

7. 3 Tbsp light soy sauce 

8. 1tsp of ginger juice

9. (Black fungus/ bamboo shoots) optional

10. dumpling wraps

Soup

1. 400grams Pork bones and meat

2. 1-2 carrots

3. 2-3 whole water chestnuts

4. 4 stalk Spring onion (bottom white half) - upper green half for garnishing

5. coriander garnishing

Cooking Steps:

1. Marinate the minced pork with soy sauce, pepper, saly, sesame oil, ginger juice.

2. Cut the prawns into corse chucks if they are large prawns and wouldnt fit into the dumpling sheet. Add to the minced pork

3. Chopped the spring onions, minced and add to pork prawn mix.

4. Add the chopped chestnuts and black fungus into the meat mix.

5. Marinate for at least 2 hours. 

6. Boil 2L water and add rinse soup pork bones and cook at high heat for 30mins. Lower heat to low, add chestnuts, bottom half of spring onion and simmer for about 2 hours. Watch the flame. Add salt to taste as necessary. Add carrots and turn to medium heat, boil for another 20mins with lid closed.

7. Take the marinated meat and wrap one with the wanton skin.

8. In a separate boiled water, cook the wanton for couple of minutes and taste when cooked. (rem the time required to cook because it varies depending on the amount of meat you wrap with) Adjust the seasoning to add more soy or pepper or salt at this point to the meat lot. 

9. Wrap your meat and seal the sides of the skin with water. I am lazy, so I did it the rectangular wrap as u can see in the photo.

10. Cook the dumplings for the necessary time (at least 5 mins) and served with soup.

Garnish with corridander.