Duck dumplings

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Ever tried making dim sum? Wonton dumplings are surprisingly easy to make as James found. Follow his delicious recipe to make these tasty morsels for yourself.

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I know very little about Chinese food. Until fairly recently I’d dismissed it as gloopy over-sweetened trash, based on one too many visits to Mr. Chow’s All-U-Can-Eat buffet and too many unidentifiable vittles in black bean sauce. But I’m slowly falling for it in a big way.

Rather like “Italian” food, there is no such thing as “Chinese” food - there is as much diversity between each province as there is between British food and American. So at this point I humbly submit that this recipe might be delicious and vaguely “Chinese” but is very possibly as authentic as a fortune cookie.

It came about, as dinners often will, as a means of using up the bits and bobs that were lurking at the back of the fridge. A packet of wonton wrappers, a few iffy-looking spring onions, a thumb of ginger…and it’s not every day, I grant you, that I have half a roast duck kicking about, but I’d been testing recipes for something else, and there it was. You could use chicken instead.

Ingredients

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Method

1
Mix together the duck, spring onion, garlic, ginger, chilli, five spice, hoisin sauce, and season with salt and pepper. Taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary
2
Put a spoonful of the mix in the centre of a wonton wrapper. Dip your finger in a glass of water and dab it round the edge of the dough. Fold over and seal, then crimp the edges, both to help seal but also for prettification
3
Repeat with the remaining wrappers, covering the finished specimens with a damp tea towel to prevent them from drying out
4
Heat a splash of oil in a frying pan or wok, and add the dumplings. Fry until they’re crisp on the bottom, then add a splash of rice wine and the water. Cover tightly and cook for a further 2-3 minutes, until the steam has all been absorbed. Serve with soy sauce
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James Ramsden is author of four cookbooks, he has written about food and cooking for Delicious magazine, the Guardian, the Times, the London Evening Standard and many others.

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