Mui Choy Dumpling
Posted by Angie | Under Chinese Festival Recipe Tuesday Mar 10, 2009Ingredients:
500g glutinous rice (washed & soak for 5 hours)
3 tbsp cooking oil
1 tbsp chopped garlic
2 tbsp soy sauce
½ tbsp concentrated chicken stock
½ tsp salt
½ tsp 5 spiced powder
½ tsp pepper
Some bamboo leaves and hemps string
Filling:
1tbsp chopped garlic
120g sweet Mui Choy (wash & soak for 20 minutes)
150g pork belly (dice)
80g peanut (soaked)
3 pc cloves (丁香)
1 pc star anise (八角)
Seasoning:
1½ tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1½ tbsp sugar
½ tsp sesame oil
¼ tsp salt
Drops of dark soy sauce
½ tsp MSG
Starch for thickening
Method for filling:
- Drain Mui Choy and chopped.
- Heat up oil and sauté garlic until fragrant. Add in Mui Choy, peanut, meat, cloves and star anise and stir fry.
- Pour enough water to cover the ingredients, add seasoning and bring to boil, turn to low heat and simmer for ½ hour, then thicken and set aside.
Method for rice:
- Heat 3 tbsp oil in wok. Sauté garlic and then add in rice, stir-fry well, toss in other ingredients and dished out.
- Use 2 pieces of bamboo leaf and fold into cone shape, fill half with rice and stuff with 1 tbsp filling, cover with another half of rice, then fold leaf into triangle shape and tie up with hemps string firmly.
- Boil half pot of water with 2 tbsp salt, add in dumpling (covered with water), put on lid and cook for 3 hours until dumplings cooked.

