Healthy Cabbage, Mushroom & Ginger Dumplings Recipe

To prepare dumpling filling

1. Finely chop the vegetables. Use a food processor for this step if you have one.

2. Heat olive oil in a large frypan, and fry onion until softened

3. Add ginger, carrot, cabbage and mushrooms and cook for 10-15 mins, stirring occasionally, until vegies are softened.

4. Remove from heat and mix in the soy sauce and sesame oil.

5. Let filling cool slightly before folding dumplings

To make dumplings

1. Spoon mixture into the middle of the wonton wrapper. Our wrappers were nicely filled with 2 tsp of mixture but yours may vary.

2. Press together diagonally opposite corners. Then gather the other wrapper tips upwards and slightly twist to enclose filling. Pinch near the top of the pouch to seal the dumpling, creating a ‘money bag’.

3. Place on a tray and cover with a clean, damp tea-towel.

4. Repeat with remaining wrappers.

5. Note: it’s faster to lay out a bunch of wrappers, spoon filling on all, then fold them all. But, if the wrappers are left out for too long they become dry and harder to fold. Try laying out 5-10 at a time and see how you go. You may want to do more or less per “batch”.

To steam dumplings

1. Add 2cm of water to a large pot and sit a bamboo steaming basket or steamer over the rim. Bring the water to the boil.

2. Place dumplings in a single layer in the steamer. Steam on medium heat for 7-10 min.

3. Repeat in batches with remaining dumplings.

To pan fry dumplings

1. Heat a thin layer of oil in a large frypan that has a lid.

2. Add as many dumplings as fit in your frypan (while still giving them each a little wiggle room) and fry for about 3 mins or until bottoms are brown and crispy.

3. Add 100 mL water to the pan and cover with a lid immediately. It will steam and bubble. Cook on medium heat until all the water has evaporated and the dumplings are cooked through (5-10 mins).