Steps to Prepare Perfect Siu Mai (Chinese Dumpling with Chicken and Shrimp)

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, siu mai (chinese dumpling with chicken and shrimp). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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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.

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

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

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

Instructions 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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