Spring Onion and Minced Beef Dim Sum

I stumbled through Mitong’s blog (One of the Taiwanese food blogger’ sites) weeks ago and was thrilled with all the recipes she shares in her blog. I have since been reading her blog everyday and checking out all her recipes. There are a few interesting recipes that I am so tempted to try. So stay tune, I will definitely try them out.

This is the dim sum recipe that was highly recommended by her, I was so tempted to get hands on, roll my sleeves up and make this savory pancake. The end results, as you can see on your screen, are absolutely delish.

These dim sums took me more than 40 minutes to prepare and I am not exaggerating. I am just too clumsy with rolling the pastry and shaping them. So forgive me for my ugly shaped dim sum.

Lynn, Duncan and my hubby loved these little savory dim sums. There were lovely!! The hint of black pepper went well with the spring onion and minced beef. Serve them for afternoon and you will be in food heaven.


Recipe: Savory Spring Onion and Minced beef Dim Sum

Ingredients:

Pastry:
2 cups of flour
2/3 cups of boiling water
Cold water

Filling (1):
2/3 bowl of Spring onions
3 tbsp of oil
1tsp of black pepper powder

Filing (2):
100g of minced beef
3 cloves of garlic (minced)
One shallot (minced)
1 tbsp of soy sauce
½ tsp of sugar
A pinch of salt

Method:

Pour the boiling water into the flour and mix it well with chopsticks.

Use your hands to knead the dough till it’s well mixed (add some cold water if you need). Cover the dough with a wet tower for 30 minutes.
Heat oil in a heavy frying pan. Add garlic and onion, fry until fragrant. Add in minced beef, stir in the sugar, soy sauce and salt. Stir fry till the meat is all cooked through. Set aside.

Wash the spring onions, dry them and cut into small pieces (you can even mince the spring onion if you wish).
Mix the spring onion with oil and black pepper powder.

Divide the dough into 2, roll the dough into 0.2 – 0.3 cm thick of rectangular shape (if you can, I must I admit I am useless with rolling pastry).
Brush some oil on the pastry, and then sprinkle some spring onions and minced beef on the pastry.

Roll up the pastry and cut them into 4-6 little dim sums.

Press the little dim sums lightly with your hands to hold the filling better. Lastly, heat oil in frying pan and pan fry the little dim sum till golden brown