Beef is rich in protein, amino acid composition is closer to the human body than pork needs, can improve the body's ability to resist disease, growth and development and post-surgery, post-disease recuperation of people in the supplemental blood loss, repair of tissues and other aspects of the matter especially suitable. Cold winter eating beef, have warm stomach effect, for the winter tonic good. According to Chinese medicine, beef has the effect of tonifying Qi, nourishing the spleen and stomach, strengthening the muscles and bones, transforming phlegm and wind, quenching thirst and stopping salivation. Suitable for people who eat in the middle of the qi subsidence, shortness of breath, weakness, anemia and long illness and yellow face and eyesight.

How to Make Beef Dumplings with Shiitake Mushrooms

1 Chop the beef (I used cooked beef here), mushrooms, scallions, and garlic scapes

2 Pour oil into a pot

3 Pour the beef, mushrooms, and other ingredients into the pot, and add soy sauce, salt, and chicken broth. Add soy sauce, salt, chicken broth, and chili powder, and stir-fry for one to two minutes to make the filling

4Pour flour into the pot, make a hole in the center, and pour in warm water

5Put chopsticks into the dough wadding

6Soften into dough

7Put down the dosage

8Put the rod into a round skin

9Put the filling into the center of the dumpling skin

10Built dumplings

11Add water to the pot and bring to a boil

12Pour the dumplings into the water, be careful not to overdo it, they will stick easily. (Or put some salt in the pot to prevent sticking.) Stir the hot water so that the dumplings move around and don't stick to the bottom of the pot.　Cover the pot with a lid and wait for the dumplings to float up. Note: If the dumplings don't float when the water boils, add more cold water until the dumplings float up

13Prepare the dumplings on a plate

Tips

Dumplings are not only good when you mix the stuffing, but also when you make the dumpling skin! Don't buy the kind of machine-pressed dough, it's better to make your own dough, add a little salt in the water, the dumplings won't stick together, and the texture is still very strong. Try it is as simple as that!