Chinese Dumplings and Chow Mein recipe (Winnie C)

Chinese Dumplings (potstickers)

Ingredients:
Filling:
1 lb ground pork
1 Tbsp fresh ginger (minced or finely chopped)
1 Tbsp soy sauce
7-8 leaves of Napa (finely chopped into pieces)

Chinese dumpling wrapper
(they are the circled ones)
¼ c water (for sealing up the wrapper)

Directions:
1. Mix all the filling ingredients together.
2. Put a tbsp of filling in the wrapper. Wet the sides of the wrapper with water. Seal the wrapper up.
3. Place the dumpling onto a cookie sheet or plate.
4. If you are only cooking some, then put the rest in the freezer on the plate. (This will prevent them from sticking together. Leave it in the freezer for about an hour then you can put then in a zip lock bag. You can cook them later. They can last for a couple of months.

Cooking:
1. Heat up 1 tbsp of oil in a non-stick pan. Put dumplings in the pan. Pan fry for about 2 mins.
2. Add ¼ c of water in the pan and cover the pan. Should cook about 10-15 mins or until the water evaporates. (Note: cooking about 12-15 dumplings)
3. Uncover the pan and then the dumplings fry about 1 min longer.
4. Ready eat.

Dipping sauce:
Soy sauce or Chinese dumpling sauce.

*You can buy the Chinese dumpling wrappers (produce area) or sauce (Asian aisle) at the Fry's*


Chow Mein

Ingredients:
Chinese style dried noodles (they need to be thin, kind of like thin spaghetti)
1 Chicken breast or 1 slice boneless pork loin – thinly sliced into small pieces
Marinate: 2 tsp of cornstarch, 2 Tbsp of soy sauce
4 eggs
½ cabbage head (chopped)
3 stalk of celery (thin slices 2 in. long)
3 carrots (thin slices 2 in. long)
3 stalk of green onions (thin slices 2 in. long)
5 dried Chinese black mushrooms, thin slices (optional)
salt
oil
Soy sauce
Osyter sauce

Directions:
1. Soak the dried mushrooms in water for about 3 hours. Then you need to slice them.
2. Boil water for the noodles. Cook them "al dante"…you don't want them too soft.
3. Drain the noodles. Add 4 Tbsp of oil to the cooked noodles and some salt. Mix up the noodles. This will prevent the noodles from sticking together.
4. Marinate meat in the ingredients mentioned above. Sir fry the meat…cook thoroughly then put aside.
5. Scramble the eggs then put them aside.
6. Stir fry the mushrooms and add 1 tsp of soy sauce…then put them aside.
7. Add 2 tsp of oil in wok…wait till it's hot, then put celery, carrots and chopped cabbage in the wok. Stir fry about 1 min.
8. Add the noodles and stir fry together. Then add mushrooms, meat, and eggs in.
9. Stir fry everything except for the green onions. Then add about 3 Tbsp of oyster sauce (or however much to your taste).
10. Turn off stove. Mix in green onions.
11. Ready to eat.