Siu mai

Cooking Meat Siu mai

Celebrate Chinese New Year with these moreish pork and prawn dumplings!

  1. Line a baking tray and steamer basket with baking paper. Use a skewer to poke holes in the steamer basket paper.
  2. For the filling, combine the pork, prawn, shallot, egg white, oyster sauce, wine, oil, sugar and pepper in a bowl. Season with salt. Cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 30 minutes to rest.
  3. Place 1 wrapper on a clean work surface. Place 1 tbs filling in the centre. Fold up edges. Cup dumpling in your hand and use fingers to form pleats. Pat down filling. Tap the base of dumpling on work surface to flatten. Transfer to prepared tray. Repeat with remaining wrappers and filling.
  4. Place steamer basket on top of a saucepan one-third filled with simmering water. Steam the dumplings, in 2 batches, for 17 minutes or until cooked. Top with shallot and serve with soy sauce.

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