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Pork soup dumplings (xiao long bao)

Name: Pork soup dumplings (xiao long bao)
Total time: 180 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: aspic: 500 g pork skin or chicken wings, 1 L water, ginger and scallion simmered 2 hours (or 500 ml stock set with 10 g gelatin), chilled firm and finely diced; filling: 350 g ground pork, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp ginger juice, 1/2 tsp salt, white pepper, 1 tsp sesame oil; dough: 250 g flour, 125 ml warm water, pinch of salt; napa cabbage leaves for the steamer; black vinegar and julienned ginger

Delicate pleated dumplings filled with seasoned pork and set pork-stock jelly that melts into hot soup as they steam.

Time: 180min
Steps: 5

Ingredients

6 servings

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aspic: 500 g pork skin or chicken wings, 1 L water, ginger and scallion simmered 2 hours (or 500 ml stock set with 10 g gelatin), chilled firm and finely diced
filling: 350 g ground pork, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp ginger juice, 1/2 tsp salt, white pepper, 1 tsp sesame oil
dough: 250 g flour, 125 ml warm water, pinch of salt
napa cabbage leaves for the steamer
black vinegar and julienned ginger

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Contains wheat, soy and sesame.

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Method

1
Make and set the aspic, then dice it.
2
Mix the filling, then fold in the aspic and chill.
3
Knead the dough, rest 30 minutes, roll into 30 thin 8 cm wrappers with thinner edges.
4
Fill each with a heaped spoon, pleat closed and steam on cabbage leaves 8 minutes.
5
Serve with black vinegar and ginger; bite a small hole and sip the soup first.

Pork soup dumplings (xiao long bao)

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