Pork Pot Stickers With Dipping Sauce
Pork Pot Stickers with Dipping Sauce can be an entire meal. Stop paying top dollar at the restaurant for a plate of potstickers only to get just 1 or 2. Now you can make your own. This yummy Asian dumpling is pan fried on one side and then steamed to perfection. Each batch cooks in just 8 minutes and is best when eaten hot off the pan. The fun is just gathering around the stove top and see everyone just waiting for thet next hot batch to come off the stove. Dunk the hot fresh pot stickers into the vinegar based pot sticker dipping sauce and see them disappears batch after batch.
Ingredients
STUFFING INGREDIENTS FOR DUMPLINGS
Precook Cabbage for Stuffing
- 1 Tbs sesame oil
- ½ small yellow onion cut in thin slices
- 10 oz. cole-slaw angel hair fresh cabbage
- 2 Tbsp. soy sauce light
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- ¼ tsp. white pepper
Cold Ingredients
- 2 green onion slice thin
- 1 lb ground pork
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp chopped fresh cilantro optional
To Put Together Dumpling Ingredients
- 12 oz. won ton wraps about 48
- Water for binding edges
To Cook Dumplings
- sesame oil for pan searing
- water for seeming
Dipping Sauce
- 1/2 cup Rice Vinegar
- 1 Tbsp. Light Soy Sauce
- 4 tsp sugar dissolved in 2 Tbsp hot water
- 1/4 tsp. Sesame seeds
- green onion garnish
Instructions
- Heat oil on medium high. Add onions and sauté until onions are just soft. Add cabbage, salt and white pepper and soy sauce. Cook stirring frequently until all cabbage is hot but not soft about 5 min. Remove from heat and cabbage in half. Use one half as a side with your dumplings and set the other half aside to cool for the dumpling stuffing.
- Once cabbage mixture is cooled completely add raw ground pork, salt and pepper, green onion and cilantro. Mix well.
- Place 1 teaspoon mixture in a single won-ton wrap. Dip your finger in water and run your wet finger around the edges of the won-ton wrap. Fold the square won-ton wrap on it’s diagonal so it is triangle shaped and press edges together firmly. Repeat this until all the pork mixture is used.
- Keep stuffed wraps under a moist paper towel so they do not dry out before cooking.
- In a nonstick large fry pan add 1 Tbsp sesame oil and heat on medium high. Place 12 dumplings in the pan and cook on a reduced heat …medium for 2 min until bronzed on one side. Add 1/2 cup water, cover and cook for exactly 6 minutes for pork until all water is evaporated. Remove lid and turn heat up if the water is not completely evaporated. Once the water is gone your pot stickers are ready.
- Serve immediately with suggested dipping sauce.
Notes
Yield: 48 dumplings Servings: 12
Serving suggestions: Serve with vegetable fried rice, stir-fry vegetables or Asian noodles (see ASIAN NOODLES WITH VEGETABLES recipe in Sides).
