Glutinous Rice Siu Mai(糯米烧卖)

Siu Mai is like Chinese dumplings, you can put all kind of ingredients in it. I used what I had, but you can also put in fresh bamboo shoot, dried mushroom, Chinese sausage, corn, green peas, etc.

Ingredients

【Filling】
Glutinous Rice - 3 cup, soak in water overnight

Pork - 1 lb, diced

Baby Bella mushroom - 10+, diced

Carrot - 1 stick, diced

Dried black wood ears - 10+, soften by soaking in water, then chopped

Onion - half, chopped
Dried Tofu - 2 squares, diced
Soy sauce - 6 TBSP, or to taste
Oyster sauce - 2 TBSP, or to taste
Cooking wine - 1 TBSP
Sugar - 1 TBSP
Oil - 2 TBSP
Salt - to taste
White pepper - to taste

【Wrapper】

All purpose flour - 4 cups

Warm water - 1 and 1/4 cups

Steps

1. Prepare the ingredients.

 

2. In a large frying pan, first add oil and onion to stir fry until onion is fragrant; then add meat and cooking wine;  finally add carrot and other ingredients to stir fry until fully cooked.

3. Add the drained glutinous rice, when the rice is half cooked, add all the seasoning.

4. Put the rice mixture over cheese cloth on a steamer, poke a few holes. then steam high for 25-30 minutes.

5. When the rice is a bit cool down, divide and roll them into rice balls, about 50g each.

6. Put flour and warm water in a mixer with dough hook, make into a smooth dough. Cover and let it rest for half a hour.

7. Divide the dough into small portions, about 17g each. Roll out each wrapper to about 4.5" diameter round, make sure the skirt is thinner than the center.

8. Wrap the Siu Mai into a vase shape. Steam high for 5 minutes and serve hot.

Note: Uncooked Siu Mai can be stored in Ziploc in freezer. When ready to consume, do not defrost, just steam high for 10 minutes.