GYOZA - Japanese dumplings, also known as Pot Stickers.

By : Erin Baker for Harts Barn CookerySchool | Difficulty : Advanced 

GLUTEN FREE GYOZA WRAPPERS

Ingredients:

60g rice flour

120g glutinous rice flour

1/2 tsp xanthan gum

125ml of boiling water

1 tbsp of sunflower oil

DIPPING SAUCE

3 tbsp tamari (gluten free soy sauce)

1 tsp toasted sesame oil

1 tbsp rice vinegar

50g ginger, finely grated

1 spring onion, very finely sliced

FILLING

1 tbsp oil (rapeseed, sunflower, vegetable)

2 carrots, peeled and grated

1/2 small Chinese cabbage, finely chopped

100g shiitake or brown mushrooms, thinly sliced

3 spring onions, sliced

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 inch ginger, finely grated

1 tsp toasted sesame oil

1 tbsp tamari (gluten free soy sauce)

light oil (rapeseed, sunflower, vegetable) for frying

 

To make the gyoza wrappers, 

  1. Mix together the 2 flours, salt and xanthan gum in a large bowl.
  2. Add the water and oil and mix vigorously until the mixture comes together.
  3. Cover in cling film, leave to cool to handling temperature then knead until a ball of dough forms. If it is too sticky, add more rice flour.
  4. Break the dough into pieces about the size of a hazelnut and roll into rounds about 3 inches in diameter.
  5. Heat a frying pan and add oil; add the carrot, cabbage and mushroom, cook for about 5 minutes, moving around the pan regularly.
  6. Add spring onions, garlic, ginger sesame oil and tamari.  Cook for another couple of minutes.  Remove from heat and let cool.
  7. Place a heaping teaspoon of filling in the middle of the wrapper.
  8. Fold the gyoza wrapper over the filling and pinch the edges to seal it shut, then make a series of folds to create pleats.
  9. Not very traditional, but a fork works well to crimp the edges together.

To make the sauce: 

  1. Grate the ginger with the small grating side of a cheese grater (not the zest side). 
  2. Gather all of the ginger and squeeze into bowl.  Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
  3. Heat oil in a large frying pan or wok. When oil is ready, carefully add the dumplings and cook on high heat until golden brown (about 1 minute).
  4. Without turning the dumplings over, add 75 ml of water and cover.  Reduce heat to low and steam dumplings until water is gone.  The gyoza will stick a little, but easily release, hence the name pot stickers. 
  5. Serve with dipping sauce.

A little note from Erin:

Gluten free gyoza dough took me about 3 attempts of failure before success. Don’t give up if you struggle at first – the result is a lovely workable pastry that results in a delicious wrapper for these Japanese favourites. Also try to roll the pastry as thin as you can for best results.

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