Chinese Pork Chive Dumplings

Chinese Pork Chive Dumplings. Delicious savoury morsels of heaven! They are so perfect for lunch, dinner, appetizer or as a side or as a yummy snack. They are so good with my 3 ingredient dumpling dip or my Chinese chili oil.

Dumplings, potstickers, meat-wrapped dough - whatever you want to call them - are probably my FAVOURITE food in the world. I don't think I could live my life without these soft crispy little pockets!

My grandma taught me how to make dumplings whenever she visited Toronto. Then my mom and I would spend our evenings together making dumplings from scratch. We would rarely ever buy them from the store as those typically contained additives or preservatives (but hey no judgement if you do buy them because sometimes we need something quick to fry up and eat!).

I won't lie. This pork chive dumpling recipe takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes to make. It's a long time BUT I promise you the end result is TOTALLY WORTH IT.

That's the thing with cooking or anything in life, it takes time and effort. If you're not willing to put in time and energy into anything you create, how can expect good results?

The best dumplings!

Now I know there are many pork and chive dumpling recipes online but this one is really amazing. That chewy wrapper with that savoury tasty healthy meat filling is just so good! You won't be able to stop at one!

These are probably the best pork and chive dumplings I've ever made and I'm happy to share the recipe with you! Don't forget to check out my other related recipes below!

Other recipes you may like!

If you enjoyed this pork and garlic chive dumpling recipe then you may want to check out my other dumpling recipes below:

Pork Cabbage Dumplings
Vegetable Dumplings
Pork Chive Wontons
Pork and Shrimp Dumplings

For this recipe

You'll need the following pork and chives dumplings ingredients:

Ingredients

• oil for frying
• water for steam frying

Pork chive dumpling filling:

• Ground pork
• Garlic chives, finely chopped
• Soy sauce, regular kind
• Sugar
• Cornstarch
• Water
• Sesame oil

Dumpling Wrapper:

• All-purpose flour
• Hot boiling water
• Salt

More flour for working surface

Pork and chive dumpling dipping sauce:

• Soy sauce
• Black Vinegar vinegar
• Sesame oil

How to make Pork Chive Dumplings

• In a large mixing bowl, mix the Filling ingredients together. Mix very well until it forms a paste. The meat should be broken down and pasty.

• In another large mixing bowl, whisk flour and salt together. Pour hot boiling water into the dry ingredients. Then mix together until it forms a clumpy ball. If the dough is too sticky to work with, sprinkle a few more tablespoons of flour over top and knead it into a ball until it's no longer sticky.
• Flour your working surface. Then pierce a hole into the middle of the dough ball. Then shape it into a very loose circular "hoop". The hoop should be 1.5 inches thick.
• Cut the hoop in half to form two long pieces.

• Then slice those into 1 inch wide pieces or until you have 50 equal sized pieces.

• Roll each piece into a ball. Place the balls back into the mixing bowl and cover them with a moist clean towel so they do not dry out.

• Re-flour your surface and roll out one ball at a time with a rolling pin until thin. The wrappers should be about 3 inches wide in diameter.

• Fill your wrapper with a levelled off tablespoon of filling.

• Dab a little bit of water on the edges of the wrapper. Then fold one side over and pinch edges together to seal it.

• Then fold & pinch the edge to create a classic looking dumpling.

To cook dumplings:

• In a hot non-stick pan set over medium heat, add oil. Lay your dumplings bottom side down. Pour enough water to cover the base of the pan. Cover with a lid.

• Steam cook for 12-13 minutes. In the last minute, remove the lid and let any excess water (if any) evaporate so the bottoms of the dumplings can crisp up.

• Serve with dipping sauce.

Tips

Below are tips to help you make this pork and chive dumpling recipe but they are just here to guide you:

• When making your filling, make sure to mix it super well. Like I'm talking a pasty meat paste. The ground meat should literally be broken down so much that you don't even know that it's ground meat
• When making your wrapper dough, the dough should be sticky but not too sticky. Like almost flakey around the side.
• Kneading the dough is important before you make the wrappers
• When you roll out the dough, please I BEG you to roll it on a FLOURED surface! Even when you roll out the mini balls of dough into the individual wrappers.
• When you work on a non-floured surface, everything sticks and your wrappers will stretch and break. I would even recommend clearing out any sticky bits of dough that are stuck to your surface. These little sticky bits will cause your wrappers to break or stretch when rolling them out.
• Use a damp clean towel to keep your dough and mini dough balls moist.
• When filling your wrappers, do not overfill. Anymore and you won't be able to seal your dumpling properly.
• When sealing your dumplings, use some water to seal them.
• My pork and chive dumplings pan fried are the best way to cook them. The browned crispy bottoms to these dumplings really take these morsels of heaven to the next level! You may also steam or boil them.

I hope these were helpful in guiding you to make the best pork and chive dumpling recipe ever!

Give it a try!

Well I hope you give my Chinese Pork Chive Dumplings recipe a try! It always excites me when you guys make my recipes and I hope this is one you try.

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Chinese Pork Chive Dumplings

christieathome

Chinese Pork Chive Dumplings made from scratch. Delicious savoury morsels of heaven with a garlic chive pork based filling. They are so perfect for lunch, dinner as a side or as a yummy snack.

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Prep Time 1 hour hr

Cook Time 13 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr 13 minutes mins

Course Appetizer, dinner, lunch, Snack

Cuisine asian, Chinese

Servings 50 pieces

Calories per serving 59 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil to fry 12-14 pieces

Meat Filling:

• 1 lb ground pork
• 2 cup garlic chives finely chopped
• 3 tablespoon regular soy sauce regular kind (not light or dark)
• ½ tbsp white granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 4 tablespoon water
• 2 tablespoon sesame oil

Dumpling Wrapper:

• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 ½ cup hot boiling water
• ½ teaspoon salt

Dipping sauce for one:

• 2 tablespoon regular soy sauce
• 2 tablespoon Chinese black vinegar
• ½ teaspoon sesame oil

Instructions

 

• In a large mixing bowl, mix the Filling ingredients together. Mix very well until it forms a paste. The meat should be broken down and pasty.
• In another large mixing bowl, whisk flour and salt together. Pour hot boiling water into the dry ingredients. Then mix together until it forms a clumpy ball. If the dough is too sticky to work with, sprinkle a few more tablespoons of flour over top and knead it into a ball until it's no longer sticky.
• Flour your working surface. Then pierce a hole into the middle of the dough ball. Then shape it into a very loose circular "hoop". The hoop should be 1.5 inches thick.
• Cut the hoop in half to form two long pieces.
• Then slice those into 1 inch wide pieces or until you have 50 equal sized pieces.
• Roll each piece into a ball. Place the balls back into the mixing bowl and cover them with a moist clean towel so they do not dry out.
• Re-flour your surface and roll out one ball at a time with a rolling pin until thin. The wrappers should be about 3 inches wide in diameter.
• Fill your wrapper with a levelled off tablespoon of filling.
• Dab a little bit of water on the edges of the wrapper. Then fold one side over and pinch edges together to seal it.
• Then fold & pinch the edge to create a classic looking dumpling.

To cook dumplings:

• In a hot non-stick pan set over medium heat, add oil. Lay your dumplings bottom side down. Pour enough water to cover the base of the pan. Cover with a lid.
• Steam cook for 12-13 minutes. In the last minute, remove the lid and let any excess water (if any) evaporate so the bottoms of the dumplings can crisp up.
• Serve with dipping sauce.

Notes

Tip: Freeze dumplings in a freezer friendly bag on a tray to keep dumplings apart from each other as they will stick together. Remove tray once dumplings are fully frozen.  Dumplings can keep for 4-6 months or until freezer burn begins to form. To reheat, pan fry the same way but cook for 13-14 minutes until cooked through. 

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Nutrition

Calories: 59kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 7mg | Sodium: 129mg | Potassium: 43mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 70IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 1mg

Course Appetizer, dinner, lunch, Snack

Cuisine asian, Chinese

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