Prawns Har gow
Prawns Har gow

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Har Gow (or Chinese prawn dmpling) is an old-school traditional Cantonese Dim Sum serving steaming hot during 'Yam Cha", the time-honored Cantonese version of breakfast tea. Here's a recipe that will definitely impress friends and family - a Cantonese classic: Har Gow. This is a prawn dumpling in a translucent dough that looks.

Prawns Har gow is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Prawns Har gow is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have prawns har gow using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Prawns Har gow:
  1. Get Shrimp Filling
  2. Take 500 grams raw prawns
  3. Take 50 grams bamboo shoot (rinse thoroughly and squeeze out excess water, finely chopped)
  4. Take 50 grams pork fat (optional; mince finely into paste)
  5. Take 2 teaspoons oyster sauce
  6. Get 1 tsp soysauce
  7. Take 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
  8. Get 1 teaspoon granulated white sugar
  9. Get 2-3 teaspoons sesame oil
  10. Take 1-2 tablespoon Shaoxing wine
  11. Make ready 1/2 tablespoon corn starch
  12. Take Dough
  13. Take You can buy ready make har gow wrapper in some big asian grocery shop but here is ingredients for you
  14. Make ready 50 grams all-purpose flour
  15. Prepare 50 grams tapioca starch
  16. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon salt
  17. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon vegetable oil
  18. Take 160 grams boiling water (240 mL or about 2/3 cups)

This recipe for Har Gow (dim sum crystal shrimp dumplings) has been a long time coming. Prawn dumpling (har gow) 虾饺 is more than just food; it's an art. If only I could earn a living making har gow 虾铰 everyday, I will never have to work again. The most challenging part of har gow is handling the dough, which is very sticky and can break apart easily—a good tip is coating your work area and equipment with vegetable oil.

Steps to make Prawns Har gow:
  1. Cut raw prawns in half vertical way and take the black bit off. Bash it and coarsely chop them.
  2. Coarsely chop some bamboo shoots and transfer both to a medium-sized bowl. Add finder chopped pork fat. Season with oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, white pepper, sesame oil, Shaoxing cooking wine and corn starch.
  3. To make the dumplings, apply oil to the back side of a knife. Use the backside of that knife to flatten the dough into a circle, with one side slightly thicker than the other. The thicker side will be the base of the filling. The other side will be the delicate pleated folds.
  4. If you are making dough from scratch; Here is the method how to make Har gow dough. In a bowl of a stand mixer, mix together plain flour, tapioca starch and salt. Then add boiling water a little at a time and knead until the dough comes together. Add oil until you get a soft ball that pulls cleanly away from the sides of the mixing bowl.
  5. Roll the dough into a thin log and cut out pieces of 10-12 g each. Keep the dough covered at all times to prevent drying.
  6. Here is the store bought one you can use but if you use store bought one you need some water to bind the both sides dough together. Place filling off-centre on the thicker base.
  7. Fold the thinner side of the wrapper over and pinch it to make pleats from one end with your fingers then use your thumb and index finger, start making a pleat. As you fold each pleat, press the folded pleat tightly against the back part of wrapper using your other thumb and index finger.
  8. Traditionally they make 13 (for lucky number) in the Chinese restaurant and I managed to do about 10.
  9. Oil the base of the bamboo steamer to prevent dumplings from sticking. You can also place each dumpling on a small piece of wax paper. Steam for 6 minutes over high heat. Serve immediately with a soy or chili sauce.

Har gow (dim sum style shrimp dumplings) is my favorite dim sum dessert. Sometimes they are named as crystal shrimp dumplings. Probably one of the most popular Dim Sum dishes in the world, this shrimp dumpling uses Har Gow is one of the best known DIM SUM. DIM SUM means "small touches of the heart", these are. Har gow – shrimp dumplings – dipped in soy sauce with chili paste are tiny flavorful umami bombs.

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