This is a simple Vietnamese recipe for salty fried dumplings, perfect for cold winter days with chili sauce or fish sauce and green papaya slices in vinegar and sugar.
Ingredients:
Sticky rice flour: 250g
Rice flour: 50g
Sweet potato: 50g
Water: 240 ml
Sugar: 30g
Salt: 5g
Cooking oil: enough to cover the dumplings
Mince pork: 100g
Rice vermicelli: 50g
Perfume dried mushrooms: 8-10 pieces
Onion: 1/2 piece
Carrot: 1 piece
Method:
1. Boil the sweet potato and mash.
2. Cook the sugar, salt and water till dissolve (warm only, not boil).
3. Mix both flour with 2 table spoons of oil, the mix of warm water with salt and sugar and knead then add the mashed sweet potato. Cover and keep for one hour.
4. Make the fillings: Soak the mushrooms in hot water then cut into small pieces. Soak the rice vermicelli till soft and cut into small pieces. Cut the carrot into long thin strips then cut the onion in small pieces.
5. Mix the minced pork, rice vermicelli, carrot, onion together. Add 1/3 tsp pepper, 1/3 tsp sugar, 1/3 tsp salt. Mix well and leave for half an hour then make small balls.
6. Divide the flour into equal pieces with the size like an egg. Make it flat then put the fillings in, cover it carefully.
7. Pour the oil in to a frying pan and fry the dumplings till they are cooked, don't put too many dumplings at a time to avoid them sticking together.
Now you can enjoy your yummy hot dumplings with your sauce as you wish. Perfect in winter days ;)
Tips: to make sure the dumplings are cooked inside and not burnt outside, cook at low temperature first for about 10 minutes each side then turn the temperature higher to make the cover crunchy and become golden so they look nice.
