Dumplings!!

Rainy day.. depressed over recent family issues... so... making dumplings with the hope of cheering myself up....

Ka's GIANT dumplings

Ingredients:

FILLING
100g minced pork (or any other lean meat)
1 medium onion - chopped
5-6 leaves cabbage - chopped/shredded
1 tbsp rice wine
2 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tsp pepper
1 egg
3 tbsp cornflour

DOUGH
2.5 cups plain flour
1 cup COLD water
half tsp salt

Method:
[1] Sift flour in a big bowl. Dissolve salt in water; and drizzle slowly over the flour. Mix with a fork (avoid using hands at this stage; you don't want the mixture to warm up..)
[2] When the flour has become clumps of dough, flour your hand and lightly knead so it become s a lump. Sprinkle with some flour and chill for at least one hour (also to relax the dough so it won't toughen up)

[3] Mix all the filling ingredients together. The mixture will be a little .. watery, but it's normal. DO NOT add too much cornflour else the filling will be too tough after cooking.
[4] Roll the dough into a tube, and cut off equal-sized chunks (about thumb sized is nice). Roll each chunk out till thin; it does not have to be round at this stage.
[5] Place about 2 tbsp filling (they're GIANT, remember?) on each rolled-out piece of dough; press edges together. Use a knife to trim off excess dough, then pinch the edges to get a pattern (this step is optional).

Messy? This is how the table looks like after I play around with any flour.... >.<

The "pattern" after pinching

[6] Boil a pot of water on high; sprinkle 1tsp salt and 1 tbsp oil in the water (oil prevents the dumplings from STICKING together....)
[7] Place the dumplings in the water only when it is at full boil. The dumplings will float up when cooked (about 3-4 minutes)
[8] Serve warm with black rice vinegar+ginger or just plain. YUMMY!!

Almost big as my hand... woo!

I made 12 giants...

Hungry already?