Pre-made dumplings

Oriental emporium at the back of Jervis street shopping center has them, as well as the skins.
"Tonys" in Bray has both if you are based south-side, the missus does all her shopping there.

Supercell wrote: »

Oriental emporium at the back of Jervis street shopping center has them, as well as the skins.
"Tonys" in Bray has both if you are based south-side, the missus does all her shopping there.

I go to Tony's a lot, and I've often looked in the freezers there and been tempted by some of the things in them, especially the dumplings but have never dared to Any suggestions / recommendations as to what to get?

Alun wrote: »

I go to Tony's a lot, and I've often looked in the freezers there and been tempted by some of the things in them, especially the dumplings but have never dared to Any suggestions / recommendations as to what to get?

Sure, heres a couple we have in the freezer that we like at the moment.

The first one are Baozi which you find everywhere in China, Chinese don't do cold food and often eat these as snacks or as breakfast on the go (street sellers everywhere in the morning selling these).



These are typical dumplings you get in Chinese restaurant. Usually served with light soy sauce (sometimes with crushed garlic inside) and chili sauce. If you do get the Chilli sauce read the label carefully, the Guilin bottle looks the same (except has Guilin in the title) and will blow your mouth off and isn't suitable to dip dumplings in, at least i've never been served them over there with a sauce like that.



Good dipping sauce :-



Enjoy!

This is how my wife does the dumplings:-
Dumplings are boiled (three times) from frozen in a particular way otherwise they fall apart.
You boil them, pour out about a cup of water and pour in a cold cup, bring to the boil again, repeat until you have brought to the boil three times.

Baozi are steamed from frozen, you can microwave them but the crust get very dry which isnt at all like how they are served authentically. I guess you could try heating in a microwave with water in there, but I've never tried that. Our rice cooker has a steam tray attachment which we do the baozi in. I imagine a colander or potato steamer would be fine too, they can stick to metal during steaming so i'd recommend either doing on grease-proof paper or maybe a bit of oil on the base.

The char siu dumplings from Asia Market are lovely, they're chilled, not frozen and I steam them, just line the steamer with a bit of baking paper or something.

*Doozer now wants to drive to town and get dumplings...mmmmmm....*

For anyone in the carlow/kildare area farm to fork have a good supply of Asian products including frozen dumplings. I was delighted when I found them because I usually have to go to dublin when I need to restock!