Steamed Soup Dumplings

This Soup Dumplings or commonly known as Wontons are a familiar dish in my home kitchen.  The Dumplings or Wontons are usually wrapped with meat and other ingredients and cooked in soup.  I love frying the wrapped Wontons in oil as well.  This time around, I try out this Soup Dumplings in individual bowls, and it's Simple Yet Yummylicious!

Ingredients: (serves 2)

250 g. minced chicken (mixture of thighs and breast)

1 sprig spring onion (cut finely)

1 tbsp. cooking oil

7 pieces dumpling skin (1 bowl with 4 pieces and another with 3)

Seasoning:

1/2 tsp. minced ginger

1/2 tsp. minced garlic

3/4 tbsp. oyster sauce

3/4 tbsp. sesame oil

1 tbsp. Shaoxing Wine

1 tsp. chicken stock granules

Dash of grounded white pepper

Chicken broth:

5 tablespoon water + 1/2 teaspoon chicken stock granules

(you can use store bought chicken broth)

Methods:

1. In a bowl add minced chicken and mix in all the seasonings.  Add spring onion and 1 tablespoon of cooking oil, mix well again and set aside.
2. Grease some oil at the bottom of the bowl or ramekin.  Wet dumpling skin with some water and place it in the bowl, followed by a layer of meat mixture and dumpling skin.  Then again repeat with meat mixture and another dumpling skin on top.  Total 4 dumpling skin and 3 layers of meat mixture. (For infor, I made 1 bowl/ramekin with 4 dumpling skin and another bowl with only 3 pieces.)
3. Lastly, add in 3 tablespoons of chicken broth to one of the bowl/ramekin with 4 dumpling skin, and 2 tablespoons to the other.
4. Steam at high heat for about 15 minutes.
5. Serve hot immediately topped with crispy shallots and garlic and some spring onion, and with my homemade Thai Sweet Chili Sauce.
6. Enjoy!

This delicious recipe is adapted from 'Anncoo Journal' with slight adjustments to suit my cooking preferences.