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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Chinese and Mongolian >> Chinese

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Hours or a day before making the dumplings, cook the agar-agar in the chicken broth until completely dissolved. Pour into a shallow dish. Cover and refrigerate for a few hours until it gels. | 2. Mix all the filling ingredients. | 3. Dice the gelled agar-agar/broth into small pieces and mix with the filling ingredients. | 4. Refrigerate this mixture. | 5. To make the wrappers:. | 6. Mix flour and egg. | 7. Add water a little at a time until a soft but not sticky dough is formed. | 8. Knead until dough is smooth and elastic. | 9. Roll the dough into a long sausage, 1 inch in diameter. | 10. Cut the dough into walnut-sized pices, then roll them into round balls; cover the balls with a damp towel. | 11. You are now going to make crescent-shaped dumplings. | 12. Dust your work surface with a little flour. | 13. Roll a piece of dough into a paper-thin circle. | 14. Put about a tablespoon of filling (now including the gelled broth) in the center of the circle. | 15. Fold the circle in half to look like a half-moon. | 16. Pleat the top curved edge. | 17. Pinch the pleated edge and the unpleated edge together to seal. | 18. Gently tap the crescent's round bottom so that it can stand up. | 19. Place the crescent-shaped dumpling between towels. | 20. Make the remaining crescents in the same way. | 21. Place a layer of cheesecloth in the bottom of a steamer. | 22. Arrange the crescent dumplings on the cloth. | 23. Cover and steam over high heat for 10 minutes. | 24. Serve hot with ginger-vinegar-soy dip. | 25. To make the dip:. | 26. Mix all dip ingredients in a serving bowl, cover, and allow to stand at room temperature for at least 10 minutes before serving; it should keep for hours at room temperature. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
agar	1	cup		20.8	5.4	0.43200000000000005	0.024
chicken broth	2	cups		156.24	3.78	22.2768	5.2416
crabmeat paper towel	1	cup	drained	-	-	-	-
shrimp	4	ounces	shelled deveined cut	80.4667	1.0313	15.4247	1.1447
pork	4	ounces	cut lean	426.384	0.0	15.7739	39.7694
chinese mushroom	5		cut	-	-	-	-
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
sugar	3/4	teaspoon		13.7655	3.4431	0.0	0.0
white pepper	1/8	teaspoon		0.888	0.2058	0.0312	0.0064
soy sauce	2	tablespoons		16.96	1.5776	2.6048	0.1824
sesame oil	2	teaspoons		79.56	0.0	0.0	9.0
purpose white flour	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
egg	1		beaten	71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
cold water				-	-	-	-
ginger	1/4	cup	shredded	19.2	4.2648	0.4368	0.18
chinese red vinegar	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
black soy sauce	2	tablespoons		16.96	1.5776	2.6048	0.1824

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.