Make sure you have your favorite dipping sauce on hand and these are also great for soup.
NOTE: Have a floured cookie pan ready to put the Dim Sum on. You'll also need a bamboo steamer basket, regular steamer basket, or a large pan.
INGREDIENTS:
THE MEAT
1 lb of meat. Ground Turkey, beef or pork. Left over or cook is fine.
2 Tablespoons of olive oil
1 Large Onion chopped
4 cloves of garlic chopped.
1 Jalapeno chopped (optional)
3 Tablespoons of Tomato paste.
1 Teaspoon of each your choice, Cinnamon, Cumin, Black Pepper add some more. The more the merrier.
THE DOUGH
2 Cups of All purpose Flour.
1 Cup of Boiling Water with two Tablespoons extra.
Toasted Sesame Seed oil or any oil with do. But the Toasted Sesame oil really adds flavor.
Flour for dredging.
FIRST: MIXING
Put flour in a mixing bowl and bring water to a good boil. Add the boiling water to flour a little at a time. Do not use your hands to mix, but rather use the back of a spoon to incorporate water and flour. Add some more water and mix in. If there is some water left over that is fine. A rough dough should form. The dough should not be dry, but moist and not to wet. If the dough is wet add more flour. Touch with your finger to see if it has cooled down enough to touch. If it has knead the dough and cover to rest for about 20 minutes, however resting the dough is optional.
METHOD OF PREPARATION:
FIRST: CHOPPING & COOKING THE GROUND MEAT.
NOTE: When handling meat always wash your hands.
NOTE: If you want you can add about a cup full of soup broth to this mixture. It keeps it from drying out and sticking to the pan and adds flavor.
Chop chop chop keep chopping up the meat with a wooden spoon.
When you start to notice that their is less pink meat and more cooked meat. Break up bigger pieces into smaller pieces until all the pink is gone. Now when you start to see little to no pink raw meat, place a fitting lid in the pan and turn down to low and let simmer. As it simmers their will be a lot of liquid in the pan, that fine. If it seems dry add a ladle full of broth. The meat can cooking like this for 10 to 15 minutes longer if you want to be safe. And don't worry the meat will not dry out, because of the liquid.
Now after the meat is done cooking. Very carefully push all the meat to one side of the pan. Tilt the pan a little, so all the grease goes to one side. Scoop out the grease and put in a container. Let it cool then put in the freezer. TIP: Instead of tossing the fat the next time you cook meat, place the frozen meat juices in a pan and heat up and add to the new cooking meat. Their is nothing wrong with this, it will just add more flavor. This is in case you don't have soup broth. If this does not chill with you, don't do it.
SECOND: Making DIM SUM
Have a Cookie sheet dusted with flour so your can make the dim sum and place them on the cookie sheet.
Making Dim Sum is like making little tortillas. Take a small pinch of the dough, about the size of a walnut or bigger. If you make a really small on that ok, if you make a big one that's ok too. Practice make perfect. If you like making them bigger or dainty go for it. It's your kitchen. Dredge the ball of dough in the flour and dust the cutting board with flour. Roll the dough out until you get about a 2 or 2 1/2 inch flat disk. The disk should be about the side of the palm of your hand or smaller. Put the flatten disk in the palm of your hand and cup your hand. Take a small spoon and fill the center of the disk with about a tablespoon of cooked meat. Then fold the edges of the disk together and pinch closed. If any little hole appear pinch off some more dough from the bowl and cover. Holes will happen, don't worry about it.
THIRD: COOKING DIM SUM.
Weather you have a bamboo steamer basket or not. You still can make Dim Sum.
For Steamer Basket.
1. Open the basket to show levels.
2. Cut a round of wax paper and fit into bottom on levels.
3. Use knife to poke holes into the wax paper. Poke the knife through the holes already in the basket. 4. Spray the wax paper with non stick spray.
5. Now add the dim sum. To one or both levels.
6. Close steamer basket.
7. Add water to pot.
8. Place steamer basket on top of pot with special metal ring.
9. When the water starts to boil steam for 7 minutes.
For people with no steamer basket.
1. Place Dim sum in large pan spaced apart.
2. Add enough water to the pot so the tip of your finger get wet when you stick it in.
3. Cover with a lid.
4. Watch, to see if you need to add more water. Do so very carefully.
5. Steam for 6 to 7 minutes.
FOURTH: Get our your favorite dipping sauce and eat.
Mmmmmmmm That all I have to say.
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