[hebei] Leek Stuffed Dumplings

Name: [hebei] Leek Stuffed Dumplings
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 500g Chives; 300g pork; 5 egg; 2 bowls Flour; 500ml warm water; Some oil; Some salt

by A few light years away

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

2h

Serving

2

In Chinese folklore, eating "dumplings" on New Year's Eve is a major feast that cannot be replaced by any delicacy of mountains and seas. "Dumpling", also known as "Jiaozi" or "Jiaoer", means the alternation of the old and the new. It is also a delicacy that must be eaten in the sense of God. Eating dumplings means "Geng Sui Jiao Zi". "Zi" means "Zi Shi", which is a homonym for "dumplings", meaning "festival reunion" and "auspicious ruyi". In addition, because dumplings resemble ingots, eating dumplings during the New Year also has the auspicious meaning of "recruiting fortune and treasure".
The choice of dumpling fillings has a direct relationship with the meaning. The most common leek filling means long-term wealth, because long time means long time and long-term wealth. The typical cabbage meat filling in winter means a hundred fortune. Shiitake mushrooms have the most health-preserving effect. Wrapped into dumpling fillings means wealth. The drum is raised and protruding. The shape of mushrooms is like an upward arrow, or the trend of the stock market, which means upwards and fullness. That is the wealth. Finally, there is sauerkraut that Nanjing people love to eat, which is said to have the meaning of wealth.

My hometown likes to put leeks and cabbage together to make dumplings for Chinese New Year. I prefer to eat leeks. When I was a child, my mother made dumplings for the New Year, boiled and sterilized the dime coins and wrapped them in dumplings. Whoever eats dumplings with coins is blessed. Every time my family eats dumplings during the New Year’s Eve dinner, we are cautious and full of excitement. If you can eat the coins, you will be very happy. Later, I heard that one of the dumplings for the New Year will include a piece of small tofu. If you eat it, you will be blessed in the new year. "

Ingredients

500g Chives
300g Pork
5 Egg
2 bowls Flour
500ml Warm Water
Some Oil
Some Salt

[hebei] Leek Stuffed Dumplings

1. Heat a small amount of warm water in the flour several times and stir it with chopsticks.

2. Knead into dough, cover with plastic wrap, and let stand for a while.

3. Soak the leeks in brine for 20 minutes, wash and chop them.

4. Wash and chop the pork. The fat to lean ratio of pork I used is 1:9. You can also use lean meat entirely.

5. Beat the eggs into a basin, beat them up, and add a little water to make the scrambled eggs more tender.

6. Heat the pan with cold oil, put a little oil in the pan, and pour the egg liquid.

7. Stir fry over medium and small heat, and after the egg mixture is fixed, use a spatula to cut and mix into small pieces. Then serve it out to let cool.

8. Add a little more oil to the pot, lower the heat, pour the pork, and stir fry.

9. After the meat changes color, turn off the heat and let cool.

10. Pour the cold pork and eggs into the leeks. There is a lot of oil in the fried pork, so there is no need to add oil now. If there is not much oil, you can add a little more. Add some salt to taste.

11. Take a small piece of dough, knead it for a while, knead it into a long strip and cut it into even small pieces with a hob.

12. Roll out small pieces of noodles into thin noodles, put in an appropriate amount of vegetable filling, and wrap them. There are many ways to make dumplings, so let's do it as you like.

13. Boil a pot of boiling water and add a little salt to prevent the dumplings from sticking. Put the dumplings in after the water has boiled. Add a spoonful of cold water after the water is boiled again. Generally just add cold water two or three times. The dumplings are cooked when they float on the surface.