Recipe of Perfect Siu Mai (Chinese Dumpling with Chicken and Shrimp)

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Siu Mai is the first thing you grab off the trolleys when you descend upon your favourite Yum Cha. And now you can get your fix on demand with this easy to follow recipe! These Chinese steamed dumplings have a classic juicy pork and prawn filling, enclosed with wonton wrappers. Siu Mai is a very popular Chinese dumpling dish served as part of a dim sum brunch.

Siu Mai (Chinese Dumpling with Chicken and Shrimp) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Siu Mai (Chinese Dumpling with Chicken and Shrimp) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook siu mai (chinese dumpling with chicken and shrimp) using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Siu Mai (Chinese Dumpling with Chicken and Shrimp):

1. Make ready Skin
2. Get 60 grams flour
3. Get 4 eggs
4. Prepare Seasonings
5. Prepare 2 tbsp sugar
6. Get 2 tbsp light soy sauce
7. Take 3 tsp salt
8. Take 1 tsp seame oil
9. Prepare 1 dash pepper
10. Take 1 tbsp oyster sauce
11. Get Filling
12. Take 320 grams lean chicken
13. Make ready 320 grams shrimp
14. Get 5 mushrooms; soaked

Once the pork, pork fat, and shrimp are together, I season with mixture with sesame oil, salt, white pepper, Shaoxing wine, and some ginger, plus a bit of cornstarch for additional binding. Shumai or siu mai (燒賣) are steamed pork and shrimp dumplings. In this step-by-step dumpling recipe, I show you how to prepare and wrap shumai. The filling consists of pork and shrimp.

Steps to make Siu Mai (Chinese Dumpling with Chicken and Shrimp):

1. Rinse shrimp and dry it with cloth, put the shrimp into a big plate, add salt and stir for about 2 minutes
2. Carve lean chicken and mushrooms into small grains, add the stirred shrimp, light soy sauce, sugar, and oyster sauce, stir for 3 minutes, add sesame oil and pepper
3. Sieve the flour to get rid of big grains, put egg in the flour, stir until a soft dough is formed
4. Slice the dough to form a long roll, cut the roll into small pieces (about 45 pieces), press each piece into a thin wrapper of 4 cm diameter (this is the skin of Siu Mai)
5. Hold the skin in the left hand near the tip of the fingers, spread the filling with a chopstick, roll the dough into a cylidrical form with the filling exposed at the top
6. Press the filling again with a bamboo stick, put the dough in an oil-spread steam basket, steam for about 5 minutes

In this step-by-step dumpling recipe, I show you how to prepare and wrap shumai. The filling consists of pork and shrimp. Other additional ingredients may include ginger, shiitake mushrooms, scallions, wood ear, and water. While shu mai (siu mai) is traditionally made with pork, I wanted to make a HALAL (pork-free) version so everyone can enjoy this amazing dumpling. The recipe is very easy, calls for ground chicken.

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