Best Bergy Dim Sum 1 Pork Lettuce Rolls Recipes

BERGY DIM SUM #1, PORK & LETTUCE ROLLS

Steps:

• Heat oil in a skillet and add minced pork, toss until dark golden brown Add mushrooms, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots,crab and shallots.
• Toss well, cook 1 minute Combine sesame oil,oyster sauce& sherry, add to pan and toss until well combined, remove from heat.
• Have a bowl of cleaned lettuce leaves ready.
• When you are ready to serve this course bring the hot pork mixture and lettuce leaves to the table.
• Everyone helps themselves to a lettuce leaf adds a heaping tbsp of the pork, rolls the leaf around the meat and Enjoy!
• Optional: You may serve a sauce to go along with the wraps, serve on the side. Something like recipe#48345 Asian Dipping Sauce by Markthegastonome or a spicy one of your choosing

BERGY DIM SUM #6 STEAMED SWEET BEAN BUNS

Steps:

• --------Instructionsfor dough----------.
• Sift flour and baking powder into a bowl add sugar and mix, rub in the lard with your fingertips until evenly distributed.
• Add water and vinegar together and knead until a fairly soft dough.
• Shape into a ball and let it rest, covered, for 30 minutes.
• ----------Tomake the buns-----------.
• Divide the dough into10 portions.
• Mould each into a smooth ball.
• Roll each out on a lightly floured surface to a circle about 4 inches across.
• Put a heaping teasp of filling in the centre and gather the edges inward, folding and pleating to make a neat join.
• Twist dough to seal.
• Put each bun, join downwards, on a piece of bakers paper, lightly greased with sesame seed oil,in a steamer.
• Cover and steam for 20 min utes.
• Serve warm.
• (The cooked buns can be refrigerated overnight and reheated by steaming 3 minutes before serving).
• -------------Filling------------:The filling for this recipe is simply a teaspoon full of the prepared sweet bean paste.
• There will be other fillings for this dough in further Dim Sum recipe suggestions.

CHICKEN GIBLETS AND LIVERS IN SAUCE A LA CHINE

Steps:

• Mix water, soy sauce, sugar, star aniseeds and sherry in a pot, cover; bring mixture to boil.
• Add giblets and livers; bring to boil again; cover and simmer 10 minutes.
• Remove livers from sauce; allow giblets to continue cooking for 1 1/2 hours.
• Remove giblets from sauce.
• Slice giblets and livers.
• Serve cold.

NORI ROLL DIPPING SAUCE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, stir together all ingredients.

BERGY DIM SUM #7, MANDARIN PANCAKES

Steps:

• Put unsifted flour in a bowl.
• Pour in all the boiling water at once stirring with the handle of a wooden spoon (or use your mixer with the bread paddle mix and knead for 5 minutes).
• When the dough is cool enough to handle knead for 10 minutes (this step is not necessary if you used your mixer).
• Whether you do this by hand or with the mixer the mixture is ready when it is a smooth, soft dough.
• Cover the dough and let it rest for 30 minutes.
• Roll dough into a cylindrical shape and cut into 10 equal pieces.
• Keep covered with plastic wrap to prevent drying out.
• Take one slice at a time and cut in two equal pieces.
• On a lightly floured board roll each piece into a 3" circle.
• Brush one side of one of the 3" circle pancakes with Sesame oil, brush the oil right to the edge.
• Put the second 3 inch piece on top of the first and roll both pieces out into a pancake about 7 inches across.
• They must be very thin.
• Cover with plastic as each is made.
• When they are all rolled out heat a skillet or griddle, do not grease it.
• Put pancakes one at a time on the ungreased surface.
• Cook over low heat until pancake developes small bubbles.
• Turn frequently so that both sides are cooked (You'll see a few golden spots).
• Remove from pan and gently pull the two pancakes apart.
• This should go very easy because of the sesame oil that you brushed between them.
• Pile the pancakes on a plate, Put waxed paper between them and cover tightly with plastic wrap so they do not dry out.
• These pancakes will keep several days in the refrigerator.
• To reheat arrange pancakes in a steamer lined with a clean tea towel.
• Cover and put over simmering water for a minute or two.
• To serve fold pancake into quarters.
• The pancakes should be soft and pliable.

PORK ROLLS

Steps:

• Mix the pork, garlic and parsley together, you can add more garlic and or parsley and ground pepper to your taste. I buy the wrappers that are about 4in x 4in.
• Take about a tablespoon and a half lay it on the egg roll and roll according to package direction.
• When you get to the end of wrapping wet the tip of your finger and wet the corner of the wrapper and close. This should keep the roll closed.
• Let your oil heat and place the roll in the oil until golden brown or you feel that the pork is cook all the way.

BERGY DIM SUM #5, STEAMED SHRIMP DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Sift flour and salt into a bowl of mixer fitted with the dough paddle and quickly add the boiling water.
• Mix until springy.
• When cool enough to touch, knead a few times on an oiled surface.
• If you do not have a mixer, after you have added the water to the flour/salt work the dough with the handle of a wooden spoon until it is cool enough to knead by hand.
• Then knead on an oiled surface until springy.
• Cover with a damp cloth and set aside.
• Mix shrimp, water chestnuts, soy sauce,sugar and cornstarch with your fingers until sticky.
• Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Roll the dough out into a long sausage and cut off pieces (approx 14" long and into 16 pieces).
• Roll out each piece into a thin round.
• Place a teaspoon of the filling on each round and pinch the edges together (press with a fork to decorate the edges).
• Oil your steamer and place the dumplings in it and steam over high heat for 8-9 minutes.
• Serve with a spicy chili sauce or soy mixed with hot mustard.