Potstickers again

We made potstickers at my mother in law’s house last night and took some pretty cool pictures. I believe I have posted the recipe for them here before but I will repost it because they are that good!

Perfect Potstickers
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown, 2004
Show: Good Eats
Episode: Wanton Ways

1/2 pound ground pork
1/4 cup finely chopped scallions
2 tablespoons finely chopped red bell pepper (I used a green bell pepper from my garden.)
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 teaspoons ketchup
1 teaspoon yellow mustard
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon light brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
35 to 40 small wonton wrappers
Water, for sealing wontons
3 to 4 tablespoons vegetable oil, for frying
1 1/3 cups chicken stock, divided

Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.

Combine the first 11 ingredients in a medium-size mixing bowl (pork through cayenne). Set aside.

To form the dumplings, remove 1 wonton wrapper from the package, covering the others with a damp cloth. Brush 2 of the edges of the wrapper lightly with water. Place 1/2 rounded teaspoon of the pork mixture in the center of the wrapper. Fold over, seal edges, and shape as desired. Set on a sheet pan and cover with a damp cloth. Repeat procedure until all of the filling is gone.

Filling:

Building them:

Folding:

Filled:

Cute!

Cooking:

Closeup:

Carter measuring:

These potstickers were awesome and we ended up eating all of them (there were 5 or 6 of us eating at any given time) I suggest if you are going to make them, do a double batch and freeze them for when you get hungry for potstickers. I folded them differently for this dinner and I think they came out just as good!

We also did some BBQ pork buns for an appetizer!

Enjoy!!

 

Potstickers

We are home for a day so I figured I should make SOMETHING delicious. I chose Alton Brown’s potstickers because the recipe looked fairly simple and so yummy!

Perfect Potstickers
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown, 2004
Show: Good Eats
Episode: Wanton Ways

1/2 pound ground pork
1/4 cup finely chopped scallions
2 tablespoons finely chopped red bell pepper (I used a green bell pepper from my garden.)
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 teaspoons ketchup
1 teaspoon yellow mustard
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon light brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
35 to 40 small wonton wrappers
Water, for sealing wontons
3 to 4 tablespoons vegetable oil, for frying
1 1/3 cups chicken stock, divided

Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.

Combine the first 11 ingredients in a medium-size mixing bowl (pork through cayenne). Set aside.

To form the dumplings, remove 1 wonton wrapper from the package, covering the others with a damp cloth. Brush 2 of the edges of the wrapper lightly with water. Place 1/2 rounded teaspoon of the pork mixture in the center of the wrapper. Fold over, seal edges, and shape as desired. Set on a sheet pan and cover with a damp cloth. Repeat procedure until all of the filling is gone.

Combined ingredients:

My workstation:

First few done:

Filling!

All complete:

Heat a 12-inch saute pan over medium heat. Brush with vegetable oil once hot. Add 8 to 10 potstickers at a time to the pan and cook for 2 minutes, without touching. Once the 2 minutes are up, gently add 1/3 cup chicken stock to the pan, turn the heat down to low, cover, and cook for another 2 minutes. Remove wontons to a heatproof platter and place in the warm oven. Clean the pan in between batches by pouring in water and allowing the pan to deglaze. Repeat until all the wontons are cooked. Serve immediately.

Cooking!

Ratalon’s Electric Wok:

First batch!

Fancy closeup:

All finished!

I used a recipe from Yan Can Cook for the dipping sauce:

1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon seasoned rice vinegar
1 tablespoon chili-garlic sauce
1 teaspoon hot chili oil

Hopefully next time we are home, I can make some awesome stuff. These potstickers were really simple to put together. They take a bit of time to make tho… around an hour I would say to put them all together. I got more than 30 of them tho so I am pretty happy about that. Ratalon helped me make them in his Electric Wok… No pics of him tho because he was in his undies ;-D I really want to try Solstice’s burgers… if we are home tomorrow I might just make them!