Japanese Gyoza Dipping Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Dice cabbage finely and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt. Give it a bit of a massage. Leave for 10-15 minutes and then squeeze with your hands to remove any moisture.
• With your hands thoroughly mix together cabbage, ground meat, chives, mushrooms, ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil and pinch of salt.
• Dry your hands completely (or wrappers will stick). Place a gyoza wrapper on one hand and put 1 teaspoon filling in centre of wrapper.
• Brush edge of half the wrapper with cold water. Make a semi-circle by folding the wrapper in half. Pinch open sides of wrapper together with your fingers and seal the top.
• Place a large frying pan over medium-high heat, add 2 teaspoons sesame oil and arrange 20-25 gyoza in pan. Add 200ml water to cover bottom of pan, cover with lid and cook on medium-high heat for 6-7 minutes or until translucent, cooked and no liquid is left in pan. Take off lid and cook for another 30-60 seconds for the bottoms to go crunchy. Cook remaining gyoza or freeze them.
• Mix together soy sauce, vinegar and chilli oil, if using. Serve gyoza hot with dipping sauce.

Steps:

• In a large skillet brown the pork and sausage.
• Saute this over med-high heat, adding the soy sauce and chili oil.
• When the meat is browned, add the next 4 ingredients and fry for several minutes.
• Add cabbage, cook til wilted.
• Add broth.
• Cover, let mixture steam until liquid is reduced.
• Remove mixture with slotted spoon and place in bowl to cool.
• *Brush water around the edges of gyoza wrapper.
• Place filling in gyoza.
• Seal with gyoza press or pinch together with fingers making little folds.
• Heat less than 1/4 cup peanut oil in pan.
• Addd several gyoza to pan.
• Brown gyoza on both sides.
• Carefully add 1/4 cup water to hot pan and quickly cover.
• Let steam until liquid is evaporated.
• Remove to cool.
• Makes about 100.
• These freeze well, freeze in single layer.
• *Ihave made the the filling the day before and assembled the gyoza right beore cooking.
• The whole family helps with this process.
• To make dipping sauce: Simply combine all of the ingredients in your blender or food processor.
• Blend at high speed until the sauce is smooth.
• Pour the sauce in a small serving bowl and top with a couple of drops of chili oil (if desiring a hotter sauce) and chopped green onions.

Steps:

• Put the sugar and vinegar in pan over a low heat and stir until sugar is dissolved.
• Mash the garlic and chili together with a sprinkling of salt until it forms a mash.
• Combine all the ingredients together, give a good mix and bottle up when cooled.

Steps:

• Whisk together the rice vinegar, soy sauce, red pepper flakes, garlic, ginger, green onions, and sesame oil in a bowl; allow to sit 15 minutes before serving. Store in refrigerator up to 1 week.