Since I’ve taken a 10 week break from working at a restaurant, I can finally stay home at nights or weekends to teach myself a few more authentic Chinese dishes. Mom being a very strict Buddhist vegetarian I’ve always wanted to perfect a dish that she can enjoy.
I’m looking for a good, tried and tested 花素餃 (vegetarian dumping) recipe… can anyone help?
It cannot contain meat, fish, egg, garlic, or anything in the onion family (shallots, chives, 韭菜 etc).
What did Miss Salloum do next? I DON’T KNOW!!!!
Last week it was “Stolen”, and this week, it’s missing a whole corner! I’M ONTO YOU! Grr…
holla!
wow… those are some strict guidelines.
my aunt doesn’t eat meat either.. i don’t know exaaactly what she puts in her dumplings, but i do know for a fact that her base is made out of many different kinds of mushrooms(oyster, enoki, wood ear, shiitake, snow fungus etc..), bamboo shoots, and bean sprouts. THEEEN she puts a lot of ginger in it.. S’ALL I KNOW !
is garlic and onion not considered vegetarian in the Buddhist religion?
hmm..chestnuts, napa cabbage, vegetarian oyster sauce, mushrooms (i prefer king oyster)
do you make your own dough too? now that would be ambitious! :]
i never knew Buddha didn’t like onions.
hhmmm. I don’t have any recipes, maybe my mum does.but i think you should create your own dumpling for your mum with ingredients she love. mamma dumplings
so she’ll feel extra special.
I’ve made vegetarian dumplings with a somewhat modified egg roll filling, which turned out pretty well. Just use some firm tofu, cabbage, vermicelli, grated carrots, shiitake mushrooms, soy sauce, salt, pepper.
ehh sooo weird. we made some the other day for this friend in class. everytime a bunch of my friends go to eat, she ends up eating at home. so we felt bad…soo we made this.
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/maindishentreerecipes/r/pumpkindumpling.htm
it was amazing good . it was sweet and savory. its not really traditional. =P but hope it helps
Can you read chinese?
http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/?qid=7006102000301
http://www.ied.edu.hk/pse/teach_civic_lp_4_2.html
this may help…..
If it can not contain meat, you can use 素肉instead
They are all for vegetarian……
http://www.hkkamkee.com/website/product_show.php?ThisCata=1&&ThisSubCata=7
if you cant make dumpling..which frozen ones are the best to buy? thx
@mindfood - if I knew, I would be buying them too! The original reason why I keep making dumplings from scratch is because I don’t ever know what they’re putting in the frozen ones. Bad cuts of meat, MSG…
@dupe_1 - If I find the right recipe, I most definitely will try and make my own dough! (but will buy pre-made packs just in case…) The best ones are kneaded with milk.
@pinkami -
hmm..i go with turkey these days..ground beef is scary
haha wow..you have wayyy too much free time if you have time to make your own dough!
-but it’s always a pleasure to see your crazy, length preparations :]
+”fun see” is always good..not really rice vermicelli but similar..like for jai and such~
have you tried 絲瓜餃?
id go with rice, green peas, shitake mushrooms, maybe some soft cooked carrots, or maybe some chopped up celery to add some crunchiness. no egg? then how will u make the dumpling hold itself together? and isnt there egg mixed into the flour?
O.o
Try add some glutinous rice into the texture together with some chinese mushrooms plus chopped spring onion.. something different but great texture. well, the rice and the mushroom combination should be half half tho!
shiitake mushrooms, garlic chives, water spinach, water chesnuts
garlic, ginger, white pepper
oyster sauce, s/s, rice wine
How did the whole corner get cut off?
i’ve had it with bok choy. i dunno about the meat part cuz i usually eat it with meat and don’t make it myself since i can buy them cheap and already homemade. however one thing i’d really really like to make that i can’t make myself is chinese dessert! i have no idea how to make a lot of them except the gelatin ones. share recipes if you have some!