Potstickers

Our granddaughter Selena is visiting us before she returns to San Francisco State University to start her second year of college. Oh yes, we are very proud of her. This year she will be moving into her first apartment and asked if I would teach her how to make a few things she could cook in her new kitchen. One of her requests was potstickers. I wish Jeff had been here for this lesson, he has become expert at all things dim-sum.

We started by cutting circles out of wonton wrappers. Our filling was ground turkey, minced green onions, minced bamboo shoots, minced fresh ginger and soy sauce. It was a little dull, so we're going to try again later in the week using pork and spicing it up a bit. We put a little filling in the middle of the wrapper, brushed the edges with water, folded the in half and then pressed the edges together making little pleats.

Here's a picture of Selena with the potstickers before cooking:

And here's a close-up pic to show Jeff what a good job we did forming them free-hand:To cook them, we heated some oil in a non-stick frying pan. Put the potstickers in seam side up and browned for about 3 minutes. Then added some water, covered the skillet and cooked over low heat for another 3 minutes.

We were pretty proud of our results:

We made several different dipping sauces, but we both agreed that our favorite was just a simple mixture of soy sauce and Chinese chile paste.