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QUICK HOMEMADE DUMPLINGS WITH CHARD

Ingredients for 40 dumplings

250 gr. all purpose flour / 100 ml just boiled water / Potato starch/ corn starch (for dusting) / 1 chard / 1 onion / 1 carrot / 1 garlic clove / 1 tbsp soy sauce / Sunflower oil

Instructions

In a bowl put the flour, add the just boiled water with a pinch of salt, stirring and using your hand to form the dough into a ball (add a little water if you need it) and knead it for 5 min.

Cut the dough in half and shape each half into a long log of about 2 cm diameter, then wrap them with plastic wrap and let rest for 30 min.

In the meanwhile prepare the filling. Chop onion, garlic and carrot into very small pieces and let them brown in a pan with sunflower oil. Then add the chopped chard, soy sauce and a glass of hot water and let it cook until soft (about 20 min). Set aside and let it cool completely before filling the wrappers (otherwise it will break the wrappers).

Sprinkle potato/corn starch on the work surface and the rolling pin. Unwrap the dough and cut each log crosswise into about 12 pieces. Roll each piece into a small ball, then press it onto the work surface, flatten it and use the rolling pin to roll it out (don’t flatten the edge).

Fill in each wrapper with the cooked chard and close the wrapper.

Cook a few of them at the time with the bamboo steamer or a regular metal steamer, for about 15 mins.