Peking Ravioli and Dipping Sauces
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List of Ingredients
Peking ravioli
Wrapping
2 cups flour
1/2 cup water*
Sift flour. Add water, mix well, gather into ball. Let sit, covered with a cloth, 25 minutes. Knead thoroughly on a floured board; shape into several long strips. Cut each into several chestnut-size pieces, about 30 altogether. Shape each into a ball and roll into thin 3-inch round patties.
*If joa tze (Peking Ravioli, pot stickers) are to be fried, use hot water in dough.
Filling (for boiled version)
2 slices ginger root, chopped
2 scallions, chopped
1 lb ground pork (or beef)
1 cup chopped Chinese celery cabbage (or chopped frozen spinach)
1 tbsp light soy sauce
(1/2 tsp salt)
1 tsp sherry
1 tsp cornstarch
1/4 tsp sesame oil
30 wrappings
Mix filling thoroughly. Fill each wrapper with about a teaspoon of mixture in middle. Fold over wrapper and shape in a half-circle, press the edge tightly closed.
Put joa tze into 3 qts boiling water. Bring to a boil again and add 1 cup cold water. Repeat when the water is boiling again. After third boil, remove and serve.
Filling (for fried version)
2 tbsp peanut oil
1/4 ground pork
1/2 lb shrimp (or all pork)
2 cups chopped Chinese celery cabbage
3 slices ginger root, chopped
2 tbsp chopped scallion
1 1/2 tbsp light soy sauce
(1/2 tsp salt)
1 tsp sherry
1 tsp corn starch
1/4 tsp sesame oil
wrappings
1/3 cup soup stock (or chicken broth)
(Shell and devein shrimp, mince.) Parboil celery cabbage in boiling water 1 minute, drain. Mix everything but the broth, wrappers and oil thoroughly. Fill, fold and seal wrappers.
Heat a pan (wok) until very hot, add oil, turn off heat. Arrange a single layer of pot stickers in the pan. Cover. Brown bottoms over low heat for 5 minutes. Sprinkle in half the stock (broth), cover, cook 5 minutes. Pour in the rest of the broth, cook 1 more minute. (You don't need to turn them while they are cooking.)
Serve with "rav sauce" (recipes follow).
Note: Ravs can be made with scrambled eggs, for vegetarian ravs, or you can use ground or minced raw chicken, beef or shrimp; instead. Approximately the following:
Rav Saice:
In a small bowl, combine:
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/2 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp ginger root (chopped finely)
1-2 garlic cloves (peeled and crushed or chopped finely)
1-2 tsp chopped scallion (green part)
hot oil and vinegar, to taste
This is sometimes sweetened with brown sugar and crushed red pepper is also sometimes added.
Ginger Sauce:
2 tbsp dark soy sauce
4 tbsp water
1 tsp vinegar
1 tbsp chopped garlic
1/2 tbsp chopped ginger
1 tsp hot oil
1 tsp hot oil paste
white pepper
Let sit a day (refrigerated).
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