Dim Sum Shrimp Recipes

Steps:

• Rice rolls:
• Sift the rice flour, tapioca starch, wheat starch, potato starch, and salt into a large bowl. Mix in the lukewarm water, stirring until a consistency of very thin glue is reached.
• When ready to cook, mix again until there are no clumps. Using a brush, generously oil a rimmed eighth sheet pan. Using a ladle, pour just as much batter in the pan as needed to form a thin, even layer. (The thinner you can keep your roll, the better.) Put 3 medium to large or 6 small shrimp onto each roll, placing them 1 inch from one narrow edge.
• Set up a 12-inch steamer: Fill a wok with enough water to come up to the lower rim of a steamer but not so much the waterline is above the food bed. (If you do want to DIY it, just use a plate in a pot. Fill a pot with ½ an inch of water. Then make a sort of tripod out of tinfoil by forming three golf ball- sized balls and placing them in the bottom of the pot, making sure their tops rest above the water- line. Rest the plate on the tinfoil, cover, and steam.) Bring water to a boil.
• Place the sheet pan in the steamer, cover, and steam for 6 minutes, or until you see bubbles on top of the mixture. If you need more water- water tends to evaporate-add boiling, not cold, water so as not to stop the steaming.
• Carefully remove the sheet pan from the steamer and set on a work surface (it will be hot, so be prudent). Let cool for a minute or so. Then, using a bench scraper, start rolling the rice roll from the top of the pan away from you until folded into a loose roll. Cut in half widthwise.
• Brush the pan with oil again and repeat until you've used up all the batter.
• When ready to serve, briefly re-steam the rolls for 1 to 2 minutes until hot.
• Sweet dipping sauce:
• Heat a small saucepan to medium-low heat and add all ingredients. Stir until sugar and chicken powder are dissolved. Spoon atop rice rolls.

Steps:

• To make the filling:
• mix together all the ingredients except the cornstrach until the mixture is well blended and smooth.
• stir in the cornstrach, mix.
• divide into 30 portions.
• To make the dough:.
• put 2 cups of flour in a medium size bowl.
• reserve remaining flour and use on hands if they become sticky.
• add the boiling water into the bowl.
• add the cold water and oil into the bowl.
• mix to form dough.
• knead until smooth.
• roll dough into a long rope shape and cut into 30 pieces.
• use a rolling pin to roll out each piece into a thin 2 inch circle.
• place a portion of the filling in the middle of a dough circle.
• bring the opposite edges together and pinch them together to hold.
• repeat with remaining circles and filling.
• line a steamer with a damp cloth.
• set the dumplings about 1 inch apart, steam over high heat for 5 minutes.
• remove and serve.

Steps:

• Preheat the grill to medium-high.
• Peel and devein the shrimp(if not already done). Trim off the greens from the scallions, reserving them for another dish, then trim off the roots; you should be left with 2-inch sections of scallion white. Cut the bacon strips crosswise in half.
• Nestle each scallion white in the cucrved hollow of a shrimp, then wrap in piece of bacon and secure with a bamboo skewer or toothpick by running the skewer or toothpick through the wrapped shrimp.
• When ready to cook, arrange the dim sum on the hot grate and grill until the shrimp are firm and pink and the bacon is crisp, 2 to 4 minutes per side, turning once with tongs. Serve immediately.