Pork and Green Onion Cabbage Roll Dumplings
I was craving dumplings but obviously didn’t want the starchy carbs from the wonton wrappers. Cabbage rolls to the rescue!
Pork and Green Onion Cabbage Roll Dumplings
I was craving dumplings but obviously didn’t want the starchy carbs from the wonton wrappers. Cabbage rolls to the rescue!
Servings: 18 serving
Ingredients
- 1 cabbage large head nappa
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 lb pork ground
- 4 shiitake mushrooms large , diced fine
- 1 egg , beaten
- 1 1/2 tsps sesame oil
- 2 tbsps soy sauce
- 1 tbsp ginger fresh grated
- 2 1/2 tbsps chopped garlic
- pepper
- 1 green onion bundle
- 2 tbsps soy sauce
- 2 tbsps vinegar red
- 1/3 cup beef broth
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1 tbsp sriracha
Instructions
- in a medium mixing bowl Whisk 2 tbsp soy sauce, red vinegar, beef broth, 1 tbsp sesame oil, sugar and sriracha the ingredients together
- Core the cabbage, then place it in a large pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil.
- As leaves start to pull away from the head use a pair of tongs to remove them and set them aside.
- While cabbage is boiling, chop the onions. Chop til you get just above the white part, you only want the green.
- Thoroughly mix the pork and onions with all the other ingredients in a large mixing bowl into a single ball of meat.
- Take the 9 or 10 largest cabbage leaves, lay each one flat on a cutting board stem side toward you and cut it down the middle. Remove the center spine of the leaf by cutting the it like a sort of peace symbol
- Each leaf is different so thereu2019s no set amount of filling per leaf. Ideally you want a ball about 1/4 the size of the leaf itu2019s going into
- To roll it, fold up the two sides, then fold up the back part to give the meat a sort of diaper
- Then roll it. Try to get 1 u2013 1 1/2 full rolls of the meat then cut off any excess cabbage from the bottom
- Place the rolls in your steamer seam side down
- Steam the rolls for 10 u2013 15 minutes.
