Pork Potstickers

How to Make

• Step 1: Saute cabbage until wilted. let it cool a little.

• Step 2: In a large bowl mix cabbage, pork, red pepper flakes, ginger, green onions, garlic, soy sauce, sesame oil and egg.Mix well, cover and let it sit while you make the dough.

• Step 3: For homemade potsticker skins;in food processor bowl mix flour and salt. Pulse and slowly add hot water to flour in ¼ cup increments. Pulse until it becomes a smooth, elastic ball. Cover with a damp cloth. Allow to rest for at least 1 hour. Working on a floured surface, separate into 6 oval discs. Cover with a dish towel to keep from drying out. Use a pasta roller to roll this out thinly, just a bit thicker than a ravioli dough. Then cut out into 3 inch circles with a cookie cutter. Start making your dumplings. Place a small mound of filling in middle of wrapper. Don’t touch edges with filling. Fold wrapper in half to form a half moon shape and pinch the wrapper closed tightly until entire dumpling is sealed. Repeat with the rest dumplings and set on waxed paper with the seam side up. **(At this point you can freeze them)

• Step 4: In hot sauté pan coated with oil, place pot-stickers flat side down and cook until the bottom is browned, about 5 minutes. Have pan cover ready and add 1 cup chicken stock, cover immediately. Be careful as liquid will splatter. The stock will steam the pot stickers. Check them in 5 minutes as more stock may be needed. The trick here is that once the dumplings are firm and fully cooked the stock will evaporate and the bottoms will crisp up again.

• Step 5: Dipping Sauce: Mix and serve sauce ingredients along pot stickers in small bowl.