How to fold a Siomai
How to fold a Siomai

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How to fold a Siomai is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. How to fold a Siomai is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

On this video, I'm showing you how I struggle to wrap my dim sum. This is the second time I made shumai yet I can't still wrap or fold it. Siomai, a dumpling of Chinese origin, is hugely popular among Pinoys.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook how to fold a siomai using 2 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make How to fold a Siomai:
  1. Make ready Siomai wrapper
  2. Prepare Water for dipping

Because of its unique taste and one of the easiest to make, siomai has become one of the booming food cart businesses in the country. Siomai made of ground pork, shrimp, and shitake mushrooms are tasty and filling. These steamed dumplings make a great appetizer, snack or Tips On How to Make Siomai. The recipe below uses a combination of ground pork and minced shrimp but you can easily swap the pork with ground chicken.

Instructions to make How to fold a Siomai:
  1. Prepare a small bowl of room temperature water for sealing the wrapper
  2. Put a right amount of meat at the center of the wrapper. Not to much, not to small. Just enough. Enough means: that there is still enough space around the edges of the wrapper for proper sealing.
  3. Position your pouch like a diamond shape facing you. Now, visualize that each corner of the wrapper is labeled in A, B, C and D in clockwise direction. Wet your finger with the water and wipe a small amount on all perimeter of the wrapper.
  4. Fold corners A and C together. KEEP THE OTHER SIDES FROM STICKING TOGETHER. Make sure that only the two corners are sticking for now.
  5. Now, bring corner B to the center. This time, you may seal the edges between corners A-B and C-B.
  6. Do the same for corner D and sealing edges A-D and C-D
  7. Now it will look like this.
  8. Fold one of the pouch's edge around one side and seal with water using your finger. Continue around the pounch until it forms like a rose bulb when view on top.

Also called pork dumpling, siomai, is a tasty Chinese dumpling that is now popular for many Filipinos. Siomai has a lot of variations and you can make your own homemade siomai like fish siomai, chicken siomai and beef siomai among others. Making your own siomai at home is easy peasy. Make sure to have all the ingredients in the recipe below. You will also need a steamer.

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