Recipe For Dumplings

Jerusalem artichoke broth with truffle dumplings: recipe

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Beijing Haochi · Crack Dumplings: Recipe for Crispy Rice (Guoba ...

.” Not only does this little nugget taste fantastic, the red-cabbage-stained purple wrapper makes it nearly as lovely to look at as to eat. Unlike other parts of China, Beijing dumplings are typified by an astounding variety of fillings beyond the common shrimp-pork-cabbage combo. Most restaurants serving dumplings will have dozens of fillings available, including tomato-and-egg, the Muslim-influenced lamb-and-cilantro, eggplant-and-egg, zucchini-and-egg, preserved vegetable-and-green beans, peanut-bacon-and-green pepper (another favorite), and so forth.

This recipe is a recreation of the house specialty dumpling from Baoyuan Jiaozi Guan (宝源饺子屋) one of the best dumpling restaurants in Beijing (we think so at least). The dumpling wrappers at this place are chewy, not flabby and overcooked, and dyed shocking orange, green, and purple using vegetable extracts.  But the real reason Baoyuan stands out is due to their exceptionally creative fillings. Guoba ( 锅巴), or crispy rice , is the slightly burned rice crusted to the bottom of a ceramic pot after cooking rice. It’s prized for its toasty flavors and crackly texture; Koreans and Japanese have also found ways to utilize (and love!) this cooking “mistake.” Would anyone dare disagree the best part of  bibimbop is scraping up the crusty bottom?

This rice is the secret to this recipe – it combines the crispy rice with brightly purple-hued red cabbage, a toss of bean sprouts to lighten the filling and salty ground pork to add a burst of savory tang.  Even the skins are dyed purple to match the red cabbage, creating visual harmony which only makes these jiaozi , cabbage and pork is a taste explosion so wonderful that we even submitted our re-creation to a Food52.com dumpling contest . We didn’t win, but damn it, we should have! (Again, at least we think so. Though to be fair we got an honorable mention.)  For those of you who don’t have access to Baoyuan, we beg you, try this recipe. Rice Krispies enveloped in purple splendor! How can it fail to please?

Makes at least 40, depending on the size of your wrappers.  Also, the dumpling cooking method is important for chewy, pliant skins.

Making the Filling:

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