Homemade Dumplings.

I love dumplings!! I have been eating dumplings since I was a little girl, either store-bought or homemade. But I like having dumplings homemade. When it’s homemade, you can have whatever you desire and no MSG!

My mom made homemade dumplings recently and I decided to watch and help her prepare the ingredients, so we can have them for lunch. She minced the pork and marinated with salt and soy sauce and added corn starch for better texture for the pork. Whenever people make homemade dumplings, they add lots of different ingredients for the filling such as mushrooms, carrots, and other desire cravings. Since my mom bought excess of napa, which is an Asian type of vegetable, she decided to add it along with the pork. Then she will mix all the ingredients well and let it sit so the marinating process can take a little longer. Since I took the dumplings wrappers beforehand and let it thawed, I was ready to make them. My mom had two different kinds of wrapper, Hong Kong style and Shanghai style. I personally like the Shanghai style because the wrapper is thicker than the Hong Kong style one and I like how it looks after it’s cooked too. We were finally done with the filling and wrapping with the dumplings. My mom was starting to steam and pan fry it too. I think pan frying is the best way to cook it; I enjoy it the most when it’s cook like that and then serve it with soy sauce or hot sauce. Yummy!

Homemade dumpling is something fun to do with the family and then enjoying it together after the outcome. It’s even tastier since you know that that person prepared it from the heart and worked hard on mincing the pork. I think that’s the hardest job since my mom chopped it by hand with the knife and cutter board (It was just a chopping motion the whole time back and forth). It’s also healthier too since there’s no MSG! YUMMY IN MY TUMMY!