Steps to Make Homemade Seafood & Tofu Shumai Steamed Dumplings

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Seafood & Tofu Shumai Steamed Dumplings is 80 pieces. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Seafood & Tofu Shumai Steamed Dumplings estimated approx 1 hr 30 mins.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have Seafood & Tofu Shumai Steamed Dumplings using 10 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook it.

My husband said this a long time ago, "I heard Tofu is healthy, but I tasted nothing when I had it and I don't understand why people are interested in that." Yes! Tofu is not the thing to have by itself. Always should be eaten with soy sauce, put in miso soup, or something else... In Japan, tofu is used for many things. Menu of stew, grill, stir-fry, bake, steam, or mix with something - just like you use meat. This is a "steam" menu with tofu. Mix with Hanpen fish cake (made from the mixture of minced cod fish, egg white, Chinese yam, and some seasonings). Easily able to get at the grocery store in Japan. My parents do love tofu, and mom has lots of incredible tofu recipes. Enjoy tofu in a fancy & tastier way! #heirloom

Ingredients and spices that need to be Prepare to make Seafood & Tofu Shumai Steamed Dumplings:

1. 800 g (28.21 oz) Hanpen fish cake
2. 300 g (10.58 oz) Tofu *semi-firm
3. 400 g (14.10 oz) Water chestnut
4. 200 g (7.05 oz) Onion
5. 200 g (7.05 oz) Boiled squid
6. 5 packs Shumai / Gyoza dumpling sheets *phyllo dough
7. 4 tbsp Japanese sake *rice wine
8. 2 tbsp Sesame oil
9. 2 tbsp Potato starch
10. 1 1/2 tbsp Chinese soup base powder

Instructions to make to make Seafood & Tofu Shumai Steamed Dumplings

1. (In advance) Wrap tofu with kitchen paper towels and leave it for a while to remove moisture as much as you can. Hanpen fish cakes at room temperature if they were frozen.
2. If you're close to Jungle Jim's in Cincinnati, OH, you'll find Tofu in the Japanese refrigerated section and Hanpen fish cake in the Japanese freezer section.
3. Put hanpen fish cakes in a bowl, break, squeeze, and mash them as much as you can. This is the feel good step to stress relief!
4. Add tofu to it, break it, and mix well with hanpen fish cakes.
5. Add potato starch and knead well.
6. Add Japanese sake.
7. Add sesame oil.
8. Add Chinese soup stock powder.
9. Mix them well.
10. Mince water chesnut.
11. Peel and mince onion.
12. Mince boiled squid.
13. Put those in the sieve for a while to remove water or use a kitchen towel.
14. Put the minced water chestnut, onion, and boiled squid into the hanpen fish cake & tofu mixture and mix well.
15. To make a richer taste, keep the mixture in the refrigerator for few hours to let the seasoning soak into the mixture. *If you want to cook right away, make sure the soup powder is melted in the mixture.
16. Take some mixture with a spoon and make a small ball, just like a ping pong ball.
17. Slice shumai / gyoza sheets.
18. Roll the dumpling ball on it to put slices all over it.
19. Shumai sheets are very thin and easy to dry and become hard. I do recommend making all dumpling balls at one time and then cover with thinly sliced shumai sheets quickly.
20. Pour some water in the steamer, set the base plate, put a cooking sheet on it, and then place the dumplings.
21. Cover the top with a wrap and then place the steamer's lid to enclose the steam inside the container.
22. Heat at 600W for 8 mins. and done!
23. Shumai itself is well seasoned and tasty. It also goes good with mayonnaise or soy sauce & vinegar mixture to dip.

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