Party Food

I'm Jewish with a side bacon.. So here's a pork recipe to serve guests. I like using my bamboo steamers in my presentation and this is the perfect recipe for it. (Please note that this is not a real Chinese recipe but rather a mishmash of different recipes I have tested over the years to create this recipe.) Capiche? Bene.

Pork Dumplings

half a pound of ground pork
one spring onion
one head of Chinese cabbage
1 egg
a couple of splashes of soysauce
one clove of garlic
salt and pepper
zest of an orange
4 tsp of crushed ginger
Package of dumpling sheets (available in Asian food shops)

Take the cabbage and peel off the larger outer leaves (5-6) and put to the side. Chop about a cup of cabbage into small pieces as well as the spring onion. Put the pork in a bowl and add the egg, the zest, salt and pepper, soysauce and crushed garlic and ginger. Mix well and then add the onions and cabbage. Take out the dumpling sheets and put a spoonful of the pork mixture on each sheet (not too much). Fill a small bowl of water and start closing the dumplings at the top. What I mean by this is think about a gift wrapped in tissue paper that you would tie up at the top. This is what your dumpling should look like. You might have to use a little bit of water on your finger tips to make the dumpling sheets stay in place at the top. You don't have to seal them completely!

When you are done, take a bamboo steamer and place the large cabbage leaves flat inside and place the dumplings on top(this will prevent your dumplings from sticking). Boil a pot of water and place the steamer on top in order to steam the little dumplings of joy. They should be done in about 20 minutes but take one dumpling out and cut it open to see if it is done. Try not to get food poisoning please.

For parties I keep them in the steamer and let people serve themselves. Serve with hot sauce and smile coyly when they compliment your mad skills.

Bon Apetit!