F@&K YES DUMPLINGS!!

I’m back b&$tches!! Only this time I’m not drunk as I’m feeding a cute wee leech from my bosoms and that would be rather irresponsible of me, however, I’m still not a real chef. And on that note I‘d better cut to the chase as I only have approximately 20minutes before said cute wee leech wakes up and this becomes just another thing on a long list of things I started but never finished..

Today’s day 3 of Lockdown 2021 brings you some pretty darn good home made dumplings that are a heck of a lot easier than you’re imagining right now, so go on, give em a go, it’s not like you have anything better to do 😜.

The husband gave these an 8/10 because apparently fried kale as a side isn’t cool..

Prep Time: If you don’t f*%k around you’re looking at approximately 1/2 hour + another 45min resting time (For you and the dough 😜)

Cook Time: 8-10 minutes..ish..

Difficulty: Easy Peasy!

INGREDIENTS

Makes approx 20 dumplings

Dumpling Filling (I've made prawn & chive dumplings this round but you can put whatever you want in the blender and mince it up)

• 250g Prawns (De-tailed)

• A handful of garlic chives & spring onions

• 2 garlic cloves

• Thumbnail fresh ginger - grated

• 1/2 small onion (Red or brown or white , whatever's going

• 1 tsp dried coriander

• 1/8tsp chilli powder

• Salt & Pepper

Dumpling Wrappers

• 1 Cup flour

• 1/2 Cup water (Add a little extra if needed)

Dipping Sauce

• 4 tbsp soy sauce (If you have light & dark do a 50/50 split)

• 1 tsp sesame oil

• 1/2 tsp chilli & Corriander oil (If you have it, If not sweet chilli sauce will do)

• Squeeze of lemon juice

• 1/2 Clove garlic Finely Chopped

• Oil For Frying

Do This....

Right, So the first thing you're gonna wanna do is get that dumpling dough on the go so its resting while you whip up the filling and dipping sauce.

1. Sift the flour into a medium sized bowl. Slowly add water whilst mixing until combined and then knead with your hands until the end result is an ever so slightly, just a teeny bit sticky ball of dough. Lightly oil your bowl, place your ball of dough in and cover and rest while you make the dipping sauce.

2. Gather dipping sauce ingredients & mix well in a small dish. (I've got a wee bottle I kept especially for dumping sauce, pour in ingredients and shake! Too easy!) Set aside.

3. By now your dumpling dough would have finished its first rest. This time you knead to (get it..knead...ha ha) re-knead the dough on a lightly floured surface into a silky smooth ball and rest again for half an hour or so.

4. The filling! Chuck your chosen filling ingredients into a blender or processor or something that wizzes and turn it into a mince. I used prawn & chives because that's what I had in the fridge and garden at the time. Chill until ready to use.

5. Again, Lightly flour your bench, Roll the dough into a rope, cut into 4 portions, then roll each portion into another rope and cut into 5 or so portions depending on the size of the dumplings you want to make. This makes approximately 20 standard sized dumplings but would obviously make more smaller dumplings or less larger dumplings depending on what you fancy.

6. Roll each portion into a thin flat disc, (I used a dumpling mold but you can just wing it if you dont have one). Put approximately 1 teaspoon of filling in each dumpling wrapper and seal. Lightly flour each dumpling to prevent them sticking to each other.

7. Now this is the most important part. Cooking the love dumplings. I like em crispy, and this is how I cook them..Highly recommend at least trying it this way even if you're a typical steamed fan.

Heat roughly two table spoons of oil in a semi deep frying pan with a lid. Place dumplings bottom down and gently brown for a minute or so. Add enough water to cover approximately 1/3 of the dumplings, Place on the lid and leave to steam until all the water has evaporated (about 8 min). Once there's no water left crispy up the remaining sides of the dumplings and serve.

Ta Daaaaaaa. I served mine with crispy fried kale and a squeeze of lemon...to Johns disgust.

Happy Dumpling Making!