Dumpling Cooking class 1

Dumplings are one of the most popular dishes amongst Chinese, Taiwanese and Western people. There are many different kinds. In this class, we will make dumplings based on yeast dough, as yeast dough is similar to the bread dough used in Western culture.

We will make three kinds of these dumplings. Once you learn how to make and cook them, it's very easy for you to modify the filling to use your own favorite ingredients and flavors.

Dumpling Class schedule

Oolong tea serving
Preparing dumpling dough
Preparing dumpling filling
Making dumplings
Cooking dumplings
Pan fried green onion pan-cake
Pan fried dumplings cooked in water
Steamed black sesame sweet buns
Steamed bean sprout and shiitake mushroom buns

Chinese people use bamboo steamers to cook dumplings, and Western people use an oven to cook bread. There's actually a lot of similarity between the dough used for both of these, so these kinds of dumplings are very easy for Western people to learn.

You can choose to use your own preferred ingredients and season them with some basic Chinese flavors. Instead of cooking the bread in the oven, you cook the dumplings in the bamboo steamer, but they will be as easy to make as bread.

Apart from cooking the buns in the bamboo steamer, pan frying them in a wok is also a very fast way of making them. This way, it's possible to serve more than 10 to 20 people at one time.

Using similar techniques, steamed sweet buns are a very popular dessert. We will be using the same kind of yeast dough to make sweet buns. It's a very common food with a cup of Oolong tea in the afternoon, for local people.