Tuesday, July 3, 2012

"Rob made Pot-stickers!"


Hello, my peeps.  ...or, a ...Becky's peeps.  Anyway...

Here's what happened:

We had these won-tons that Becky ended up not using in another recipe.  Plus, we had all these other ingredients at home, so I volunteered to make potstickers.  After all, they're yummy, and my buddy, Josh, had made pot-stickers before and said that it wasn't too hard and that I should try to do it myself sometime.  Well, I did, and Becky & Barbara can't stop eating or raving about them.  All I did was look up a couple recipes online for some pointers, and then (of course) I did my own thing, which was this:

Yummy! Ready to Serve!

Rob's Pot-stickers


1.25 lbs ground turkey
1.5 cups of whole leaf young spinach, finely chopped
3/4 cups finely shredded carrots
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 cloves fresh garlic, finely chopped
1 egg
2 tablespoons finely chopped red bell pepper
1 Tablespoon sesame oil
2 teaspoons ketchup
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon ginger
5 shakes Szechuan pepper
3-4 shakes of cayenne pepper (coulda used more, I think)
3 shakes Chinese 5-spice

Watch out!!  Raw meat involved.
You'll also need:
1 12oz package won-ton wrappers
Water, to seal the won-tons
Coconut oil (for frying)
1.25 cups chicken broth



The following process takes a bit over an hour.





Directions:

The one I'm preparing here has
too much meat mixture.
  1. Mix the first list of ingredients (from the turkey to the Chinese 5-spice) in a bowl until evenly mixed.
  2. Drop a little less than a tablespoon onto a won-ton wrapper.
  3. Wet the edges of the wrapper with water, and press them together.(Repeat until you run out of meat mixture or won-tons.)
  4. Coat the bottom of a large frying/sauce pan on medium heat.

  5. Repeat the following steps until all the won-tons are cooked.
  6. Place several potstickers in the pan, leaving room to turn them over.
  7. Cover and cook for 90 seconds, or so.
  8. Turn them over, and cook for another minute
  9. Add a quarter cup of chicken broth.
  10. Cook uncovered for one more minute. (Total time in pan is 3.5 to 4 minutes.)
  11. Breifly rinse and scrape the pan out, and place it back on the stove.
  12. When dryish, add bit more coconut oil, and cook another batch.

Brown on one side, flip, brown, add broth.  These are spaced a bit too closely.
Then Eat.  ...and eat.  ...and eat.

2 comments:

  1. Great job! A purist would use ground pork, but, you know, it's the 21st century!

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