Since I live in France, I do less and less asian cooking. I get frustated for not finding all the ingredients I want. I live more than 45 min away from Lille, and that is pretty much the only place I can purchase asian products. Also, asian cooking takes a lot of time. Chop chop chop, mix mix grind grind grind...My mom usually cooks meals 1 hour ahead. My French MIL, would take less than 15 minutes to make a savory meal. I would even get stressed out for her, for not starting making dinner at 6:45pm. So from then on, I've decided not to spend so much time cooking.
Yesterday I was in Lille, so I got my ingredients to make an Asian feast! lol
I just made fried dumplings.
For my filling, I just put whatever vegetables I have on hands: shitake mushrooms, cabbage, leeks, shallots and onions.
Then I chopped all the vegetables in the mixer. I have cooked the vegetables and let it cool first before adding 500g of ground beef. I made the dumplings with some store bought sheets.
When you are done with all the wrapping, you fry them.
I like some vegetables to go with the dumplings. I boiled some bokchoys.
There you go, the finished result. We had sake to wash them down.
Have a nice Sunday.
If you want a more authentic dumpling recipe, here's a link to one of my favorite food goddess:
http://userealbutter.com/2007/10/04/chinese-dumplings-and-potstickers-recipe/
