Made from scratch meat dumplings take about 12 minutes to cook after the water boils, while frozen meat dumplings take about 15-17 minutes to cook after the water boils.
Cooking meat dumplings for a few minutes depends on how much heat you have, and whether or not you are cooking with a lid on the pot, if you keep the heat high when cooking the dumplings, then the cooking time may be shorter.
If you cook the dumplings on low heat, then the cooking time will be longer, and it is not easy to fix this time. Generally speaking, when the water boils and the dumplings are cooked in the pot, the meat dumplings will usually be cooked in 12 minutes, while the frozen dumplings will need to be cooked for 3-5 minutes more.
Tips for Cooking Dumplings
1, add enough water to the pot and bring it to a boil, and cook the dumplings in "wide water", too little water, too many dumplings, and the dumplings will be mushy and unpalatable.
2. When the water in the pot boils, add a bit of salt to make the dumpling skin more robust and tasty after cooking.
3, and then into the dumplings, to keep using the back of the spatula to push the dumplings, do not let the dumplings stick to the pot, this time the fire must be turned on the maximum.
4, and so the dumplings are floating up, you need to add a bowl of cold water, cover the pot and continue to cook, boil again and then add cold water, until the addition of three times cold water boil, meat dumplings on the boil, the reason why you want to cook this way, because it is difficult to cook meat dumplings, but in the high temperature cook for a long time and easy to cook the skin, so that you will be able to not cook the skin of the dumplings will not boil the dumplings under the condition of cooked.
5, if the frozen dumplings, the time to extend the 2 minutes, this time to pay attention at any time, can not overflow the pot.