Name: Shepherd's Purse and Pork Dumplings
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 400g Pork filling; 600g Zhongyu Multi-purpose Wheat Core Flour; 1 shallot; 1 small piece ginger; 2 tablespoons Cooking Wine; 4 tablespoons Soy sauce; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 4 tablespoons Peanut oil; 1g Five spice powder; 1 tablespoon salt

Shepherd's Purse and Pork Dumplings

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4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

30m

Serving

Dumplings, as our favorite staple food, are rich in fillings, including pure meat fillings and seafood fillings. Of course, the fillings with meat and vegetables are the most commonly eaten. Leek pork stuffing, cabbage pork stuffing, carrot lamb stuffing, green onion beef stuffing, etc. are common fillings. You can't miss this stuffing when you eat dumplings in spring. It is fresh and delicious. It is more popular than leek stuffing in our house. This stuffing is of course the most common wild vegetables in spring, shepherd's purse stuffing myself. Shepherd's purse is the most famous among spring wild vegetables because it has a light taste, but it has a strong fragrance when chewed. The best season to look for shepherd's purse is early spring. At this time, shepherd's purse has not yet blossomed, and it tastes most tender and delicious. Shepherd's purse has flowers and leaves, the roots are white, and the small flowers that bloom are also white, which is easy to identify. Shepherd's purse grows in fields and small woods, and it is easy to gather and grow, and you can find a piece if you find one. If you bring a small tool to dig, you can dig a large pocket in an hour, enough to eat dumplings. Shepherd's purse grows in the wild and is easily contaminated by insect eggs, so the shepherd's purse that has just been dug up must be soaked in salt water and then blanched before being eaten. Below, I will share with you the detailed method of shepherd's purse and pork dumplings. Let's make it quickly while shepherd's purse is in season.

Shepherd's Purse and Pork Dumplings

1. Add flour and warm water to knead into a smooth dough, put on the lid and wake up for a while to prevent dry skin;

Shepherd's Purse and Pork Dumplings recipe

2. Wash the pork and cut into small pieces, then put them in a food processor and beat them into puree;

3. Pour into a basin, add cooking wine, light soy sauce, sesame oil, half of peanut oil, five-spice powder and half a teaspoon of salt and stir in one direction until it is strong, set aside to marinate for a while;

4. The yellow leaves of shepherd's purse are removed, soaked in salt water with half a spoon of salt for 10 minutes, then rinsed, then put in boiling water, blanched until the color changes, remove the cold water, squeeze the water, and chop it into fine pieces ；

5. Mix the shepherd's purse with the pork filling, pour in the remaining peanut oil, add half a teaspoon of salt and stir in the same direction, so that the filling is adjusted;

6. Take out the dough, knead it on a cutting board, knead it into long strips, then cut into small pieces, roll it into a dumpling skin with a thick middle and thin edges, and then wrap them into dumplings one by one, and place them on the pan;

7. Boil water in the pot, put the dumplings into the pot one by one, add cold water twice after boiling over high heat, boil each time and add another time, wait until the dumplings are all floated and you can take them out and start eating.

8. Finished picture.

9. Finished picture.

Tips:
1. The shepherd’s purse should be soaked in salt water and then washed. Boiling can remove the astringent taste of shepherd’s purse. Add a little salt and a few drops of oil when blanching to make the shepherd’s purse color more green. When boiling dumplings, add cold water in portions. Make dumplings easier to ripen.
2. Zhongyu multi-purpose wheat core powder adopts advanced technology and equipment. In the production process, the wheat core essence is extracted through precise ratio matching and scientific moisture adjustment, which has the original natural yellowish color of wheat. The protein content is high and the gluten quality is good, so it is especially suitable for home cooking, so that the color, aroma and taste of the pasta are perfectly presented.