Preparation

1. Wash the cabbage and drain it. The biggest fear of cabbage stuffing is water leakage, so controlling the moisture content is also very important. 2

Chop the cabbage into small pieces. When chopping the cabbage, we should try to chop it as finely as possible. Then add a little salt and mix well. This treatment is to remove the water from the cabbage.

3. This step is the most important step in making cabbage stuffed dumplings, which is to squeeze out the water from the cabbage. Here we can directly dry the cabbage with our hands. If you have gauze at home, you can put the cabbage in the gauze and dry it. If the washing machine is clean enough, it is best to put it in a fine mesh bag and spin it in the washing machine. After processing, we mix in a little vegetable oil. The purpose of adding oil is also to prevent the cabbage from watering out.

The dumplings are freshly cooked!

The dumplings are freshly cooked!

Add the filling

1. Put the chopped green onion and minced ginger into the pork filling , then add soy sauce, pepper powder, chicken powder, salt, and a small amount of vegetable oil, mix the meat filling evenly, and stir the meat filling vigorously in one direction. 2. Put the processed chopped cabbage and meat filling together, and then add an appropriate amount of salt.

3. Mix the chopped cabbage and pork filling and the filling is ready.

Kneading dough, rolling out dough, and making dumplings

1. For making dumplings, we can use either warm water or cold water.

2. Pour the water into the flour one by one, and then stir it into snowflakes with chopsticks.

A variety of cabbage and pork dumplings

A variety of cabbage and pork dumplings

3. Then knead the dough into a smooth dough. Pay attention to the dough. "Three lights policy", which three lights are face light, hand light and basin light. After the dough is soft, we need to rest it for half an hour.

4. After the dough is ready, we knead the dough into a uniform long strip.

5. Cut or pull the long noodles into small uniform dough.

6. Flatten the small dough, making sure the shape is round.