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[vegetarian dumplings] wrapper: flour water *you can buy ready-made wrappers at any asian food store, and seeing as this part can take like 2 hours, you might want to do that instead. innards: black mushrooms napa cabbage one package of frozen chopped spinach (thawed) green onions (whatever else) dipping sauce (just mix a bunch of this together) soy sauce (like 3-4 T) rice vinegar (like, 5-6 drops) sesame oil (like 1-2 drops) red pepper (a little bit) green onion (half of one, the green part, chopped finely) ...and a bit of hoisin sauce if you want instructions: wrapper mix about 2c flour with water to make dough knead the dough gently just so that it's even place under a big mixing bowl and let sit for 10 minutes. every 10 minutes, give it a poke (like knead gently once or twice), then stick it under the bowl again. continue to do this until you've finished making the filling part (about 5-6x) filling 1. chop up 3-4 black mushrooms into small pieces (about 1/4" cubes) 2. take 4-5 leaves of napa cabbage, dump in boiling water for one minute. rinse with cold water and drain (squeeze most of the water out of it w/o ruining the leaves). chop up into similarly sized cubes as the mushrooms. 3. squeeze the water out of the thawed spinach 4. chop two-three green onions finely 5. dump these vegs. into a big bowl and mix up. if you want to add more vegs, feel free. i can't think of any others that i'd put in at this point, though. 6. add 1T soy sauce 7. add 3 drops sesame oil (or so) 8. mix thoroughly next (the tedious part) take a handful of dough roll into a log about 10" long and 1" in diameter slice the log into pieces about 1/2" wide using a rolling pin, flatten each piece and fill with a spoonful of filling (maybe a teaspoon or so). pinch the wrapper closed around the filling do this until the dough is finished, or until you |