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Chicken Dumpling

Ingredients
  

Dumpling skin (everything must be white, except the yeast)

  • 400 g Hong Kong Flour
  • 40 g Corn Flour
  • 1 g Salt
  • 60 g sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 20 g vegetable shortening or coconut oil white-translucent in color - can omit
  • 190 ml warm water at 40C
  • 7 g Instant yeast

Filing

  • 400 g Chicken thigh meat minced in blender, Thermomix #6 for 20seconds, reverse #2 for 2 minutes
  • 2 stalks spring/green onions thin slices
  • Ginger juice from one thumb size ginger pound till fine, then squeeze juice
  • 1 Tbsp Oyster sauce
  • 1 Tbsp sesame oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon light soya sauce
  • 1 teaspoon corn flour
  • 4 hardboiled eggs divide into eighths (optional)

Instructions
 

Filings

  • First mince the chicken in a blender. If there is a reverse in the blender, put the rest of the ingredients for the filing, (except the hardboiled eggs) in and reverse beat it for another 3 minutes. Otherwise, do this manually: place all the ingredients in a big bowl, and use a pair of chopsticks and stir in one direction until the chicken meat is 'springy'. It takes about 5 minutes of stirring.
  • Divide them equally to 30 portions. Wrap each portion with a slice of hardboiled eggs.
  • Freeze till the dough is ready.

Dumpling Skin

  • Place everything in a mixer and mix in medium speed for 5 minutes. (Thermomix knead, 5 minutes)
  • Let it rise for 30 minutes, Covered.
  • Then, shape them into 50g each.
  • Roll the sides till thin, then put in a portion of the meat, and then pinch it up. Put the buns over a piece of paper. I just use cupcake liners.
  • Let rise for 20-30 minutes, or until the dumpling doubles its size.
  • Steam for at least 15 minutes.
  • Let it sit in the steamer for another minute before removing.
  • Serve immediately.