Cute Dumplings Recipe (Vegetable Colored Dumpling Wrappers)
Tiger, frog, puppy, kitten, or strawberry? Which cute dumpling do you like the most?Let’s make some cute dumplings with homemade colorful vegetable dumpling wrappers!
Equipment
- blender
- Pasta maker
- Cookie cutter
Ingredients
White Dumpling Wrappers
- 200 g water (room temperature)
- 400 g flour (all purpose)
- ¼ tsp salt
Pink Dumpling Wrappers
- 200 g tomato juice (Blend 2 medium-size tomatoes. No need to add water.)
- 400 g flour
- ¼ tsp salt
Yellow Dumpling Wrappers
- 210 g pumpkin puree (Steam 200g pumpkin until soft, add 50g water, blend until smooth, weigh 220g pumpkin puree.)
- 400 g flour
- ¼ tsp salt
Green Dumpling Wrappers
- 200 g spinach juice (Blanch 150g baby spinach in a pot of boiling water for 1 minute. Drain and squeeze any remaining water out. Blend the blanched spinach with 80g cold water, weigh 200g spinach juice.)
- 400 g flour
- ¼ tsp salt
Black Dumpling Wrappers
- 210 g black bean soy milk
- ¼ tsp black food coloring
- 400 g flour
- ¼ tsp salt
Orange Dumpling Wrappers
- 200 g carrot juice (Blend 2 medium-size carrot (about 120g) with ½ cup of water until smooth, weigh 200g carrot juice.)
- 400 g flour
- ¼ tsp salt
Instructions
- Use a blender to get 200g vegetable juice of your choice.
- Add 200g juice/water and ¼ tsp of salt to 400g all purpose flour. Mix with a pair of chopsticks by stirring clockwise until there's no dry flour in the bowl.
- Knead the dough with your hands or a stand mixer at speed 2 for 5 minutes. Shape dough into a rough ball. Cover with plastic food wrap, rest the dough under room temperature for 15 minutes.
- Knead the dough with your hands or a stand mixer at speed 2 for 7-8 minutes, knead until it becomes a smooth dough. Cover with plastic food wrap, rest the dough under room temperature for 1 hour (or in the fridge overnight, so that you can prepare the dough the night before).
- Dust the dough with flour, pass the dough through a pasta maker's largest setting for a couple of times until the dough becomes a smooth sheet. Gradually turn your pasta maker to thinner settings, until the dough becomes a 2mm-thick sheet. Click to see how to use a pasta machine.
- Dust your working surface with flour, spread the dough sheet, use a cookie cutter to cut out round dumpling wrappers 4 inches in diameter.
- Wrap dumplings. Check out my pork dumpling filling recipe here! Place a tablespoon of filling in the middle of a wrapper, fold the wrapper in half, press to seal the edges together. Lastly press the two corners together to get an ingot shape dumpling.
- Be creative and decorate the dumplings with other colorful dumpling wrappers.
- Steam over medium high heat for 15 minutes, serve with aged vinegar and chili oil.