Easy Homemade Japanese Gyoza Recipe — Just One Cookbook
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Official cooking video · Just One Cookbook · YOUTUBEJapanese Crispy-Bottom Pork and Cabbage Gyoza (52 Pieces)
Japanese pan-fried dumplings with cabbage, pork, shiitake and ginger, browned then steamed for juicy filling and crisp bottoms. Makes 52 pieces, about eight portions.
Ingredients
servings: 8 · Check ingredients
Steps
- 01
Finely chop 340g cabbage, rub with 1 tsp specified salt, wait about 10 minutes, then squeeze out as much moisture as possible.
- 02
Finely mince 2 shiitake mushrooms, 2 green onions and 2 garlic cloves; grate 1 tsp fresh ginger.
- 03
Mix 225g pork with mushrooms, onions, ginger, garlic, 2 tsp sesame oil, 2 tsp soy sauce, 1/8 tsp pepper and optional 2 tsp sake until cohesive and tacky.
- 04
Fold the squeezed cabbage into the pork filling; keep all 52 wrappers covered to prevent drying and set out a small bowl of sealing water.
- 05
Put roughly 1 level tbsp filling on each wrapper, moisten the edge, fold in half, pleat and seal firmly. Cook promptly or freeze the shaped dumplings.
- 06
For each pan batch heat 1 tbsp neutral oil over medium heat; arrange gyoza in one layer and brown their bottoms about 3 minutes.
- 07
Add 4 tbsp water per batch and cover immediately to steam about 3 minutes. Check that the ground-pork filling reaches at least 71°C with a thermometer, cooking longer if needed.
- 08
Uncover, evaporate the water, drizzle 1 tsp sesame oil per pan batch and crisp the base. Repeat with remaining dumplings.
- 09
Mix 8 tbsp soy sauce and 8 tbsp rice vinegar for eight sauce portions, distributing 1 tsp optional la-yu if desired. Refrigerate cooked gyoza within 2 hours, use within 3 days or freeze.
Before you cook
Check that the ground-pork filling reaches at least 71°C. Clean hands and equipment after contact with raw pork; cook or freeze filled wrappers promptly. Wrappers and soy sauce may contain wheat/soy, and sesame oil contains sesame: check labels. Refrigerate cooked dumplings within two hours, use within three days or freeze; reheat to 74°C.
Allergens: wheat (gyoza wrappers, soy sauce depending on brand), soy (soy sauce), sesame (toasted sesame oil and possible chili oil), check packaged wrappers and chili oil for other allergens
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