Suzie Lee's speedy dumplings for Lunar New Year

A plate of eight gyoza dumplings with a crimped edge to the pastry, dressed with green slices of spring onion, with a small dish of crispy chilli sauce on the side, all sitting on a wooden board.

On Friday 20th February, Best Home Cook champion Suzie Lee cooked some speedy dumplings for Lunar New Year. You can make gyoza or wontons.

Ingredients (makes 16-20 dumplings)

  • 150g chicken breast (1 breast) - but can also use half a packet of sausages (de-skin)

  • 50g mushrooms

  • 1 spring onion chopped up

  • 1 heaped tsp cornflour (extra for dusting – optional)

  • 1 tsp sesame oil

  • ½ tsp garlic powder

  • 1 tsp dark soy sauce

  • ¼ tsp fine sea salt and good pinch of white ground pepper

  • Approx. 16 wonton wrappers and/or gyoza wrappers

Method

Filling

  1. Blitz all the ingredients together into a rough paste – 2 minutes or use a large chopper

  2. Then make the dumplings – roughly spoon a teaspoon of filling in the middle of the wrappers and dab water around the edge of the wrapper. Then fold the wrapper around the filling in whatever shape you would like (just make sure the filling is sealed in well). Suzie likes to gather all the edges together and pinch in the middle so it makes an easy wonton.

Gyoza

  1. You can pan fry these or boil. But if you are pan frying them - dust the bottom of each gyoza with cornflour.

  2. Add 1 tbsp of oil in a frying pan and on a medium heat seal the bottom of the dumplings for about 2-3 minutes and you will see a slight golden hint of colour on the wrapper bottom.

  3. Add in 100ml of water to the pan and put a lid on and simmer for 8-10 minutes.

  4. All the water should be evaporated and they are ready to serve.

Wontons

  1. You can boil or deep fry these - fill a saucepan half full with water and bring to the boil. Drop the wontons in and boil for 3-5 min, depending how big you have wrapped the dumplings.

  2. Eat as they are or with a dipping sauce of your choice, eg. soy sauce, black vinegar, or chilli crisp.