Purple Sweet Potato and Leek Dumplings
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The best choice for pork is three-point fat and seven-point lean, chopped into a slightly sticky meat filling.
Add some salt to the meat filling according to personal taste.
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Then pour in the right amount of soy sauce. Add some MSG, sesame oil, and cooking wine.
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Chop the garlic into small pieces and add it to the meat filling.
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Put the pepper and aniseed in an oil-free and water-free pot, and slowly bake on low heat until the color changes, while shaking the bottom of the pot constantly.
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The dried pepper and aniseed are crushed into comminuted pieces with a rolling pin, and passed through a sieve to filter out the residue.
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Pour more oil in the oil pan, which is three times as much as usual for stir-frying, burn 90% of the heat, and pour it into the meat.
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Use chopsticks to stir all the seasonings in the meat filling evenly, stirring vigorously in one direction until the meat filling becomes viscous and becomes sticky.
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Finally, add the chopped leeks and mix well.
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The purple sweet potato is steamed in the pot and pressed into a puree with the back of a spoon, without sieving.
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Add the mashed purple potato to the flour, add a little bit of water to form a dough.
Because we need to use a noodle press, the noodles should be made harder.
Add a little salt to the flour. The noodles made in this way are chewy. You can also add another egg.
11.
Mix the noodles and purple potato mash well.
The color of the dough is very uneven at this time, don't worry, it will be even after using the dough press several times.
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Use a noodle machine to repeatedly press the dough until it is smooth.
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Use a round mold to press out a round shape on the dough and use it as a dumpling wrapper.
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Put stuffing in the middle of the dumpling wrapper. Don't put too much stuffing, or it will leak out if you don't cover it.
Close up and down, pinch a small fold from the right side of the skin, pinch it to the left, and then pinch it to the right in the same place.
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Pinch it all the way to the left, and pinch it tightly every time it is pinched to prevent the filling from leaking.
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At the end, pinch the dough tightly and squeeze it to form a small tail.
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After the water boils, add the dumplings and cook for about five minutes until the dumplings float.
Tips:
1. Before the dumplings are boiled, put in a few pieces of green onion, and then add the dumplings after the water is boiled, so that the cooked dumplings will not break easily and will not stick.
2. It is best to separate the leftover dumplings one by one with chopsticks and put them in another bowl, so that the dumplings will not stick together when you eat the next meal.
3. The dumplings made with the fifth gear are thinner. If you are afraid that the skin will break easily, just press the fourth gear.
4. In the process of pressing, if you are afraid that the skin will stick to the machine and it will be difficult to press, you can sprinkle a little starch on it to prevent it from sticking. But if the dough is not sticky when making dumpling wrappers, just wipe a little bit of water on the outermost circle of the circle and it will stick.