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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Chinese and Mongolian >> Chinese

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Mix filling ingredients together; stir in one direction, mixing thoroughly; refrigerate this mixture for 1 hour. | 2. Combine dip ingredients and set aside. | 3. Sift flour and starch together; gradually add boiling water; add oil and let dough cool. | 4. Knead dough until smooth; divide dough in half and shape each half into a sausage; divide each sausage into twelve pieces (24 pieces total); when not working with the dough, keep it covered with a damp towel. | 5. Oil a cleaver and your work surface lightly; press a piece of dough, with the oiled cleaver, into a flat round circle. | 6. To shape each dumpling- Make 3 deep pleats in the top half of a dough circle to form a little crescent cap; fill with 1 teaspoon of the shrimp mixture; press dough edges together and place dumplings on a lightly oiled plate or an oiled piece of parchment paper over the holes on the first level of the steamer. | 7. Bring water to boil in the bottom part of the steamer; place steamer section with dumplings over boiling water (if you have multiple'tiers' or sections of the steamer, you can cook them all at once). | 8. Cover and steam 5 minutes. | 9. Serve with dip. | 10. These can be made ahead through the shaping of the dumplings, keeping them covered with a damp cloth or, you can shape the dumplings and freeze them before steaming, defrost before steaming. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
shrimp	1/2		shelled deveined chopped	160.9337	2.0627	30.8494	2.2893
scallion	1		chopped	32.0	7.34	1.83	0.19
water chestnut	4		chopped	-	-	-	-
egg white	1			17.16	0.2409	3.597	0.0561
cornstarch	1	teaspoon		10.16	2.4339	0.0069	0.0013
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
black pepper	1	pinch		0.3608	0.0919	0.0149	0.0047
soy sauce	1	tablespoon		8.48	0.7888	1.3024	0.0912
oil	1	tablespoon		112.12799999999999	0.0	0.0358	12.7334
tapioca flour	1/4	cup		136.04	33.7022	0.0722	0.0076
wheat starch	3/4	cup		-	-	-	-
water	10 1/2	tablespoons	boiling	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
oil	1	tablespoon		112.12799999999999	0.0	0.0358	12.7334
soy sauce	3	tablespoons		8.48	0.7888	1.3024	0.0912
sesame seed oil	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
chili oil	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-

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