Cooking materials for vegetable dumplings: 1 amaranth, cornstarch, 1 small dish of shrimp, 2 eggs, salt, oyster sauce, pepper, a little sesame oil. Prepare a handful of fresh green amaranth. Prepare cornstarch, shrimp peel and egg. Wash the amaranth, scald in boiling water and remove from cold water. Squeeze out the water and chop. Heat oil in a frying pan, pour down the egg mixture and quickly disperse with chopsticks. Add chopped amaranth into the filling, add shrimp peel, salt, oyster sauce, pepper and sesame oil, mix well. Squeeze the amaranth and knead it into a ball. Add to cornstarch. Roll in cornstarch, then dip in water and roll in cornstarch again. Repeat three times. Steam on a pan for 10 minutes, until cooked through, savory and flavorful, with a large, thin filling and soft texture.

Corn meal is also a kind of coarse grain that we often eat in our life. It is nutritious and flavorful. Our family makes homemade corn. We grind the corn in which the kernels are used to cook corn flour. Corn flour is used to make baked bread, woks and vegetable dumplings. It was very tasty, especially the cornmeal and vegetable dumplings colored cornmeal that my grandmother, Gosta, ate. Whenever we steamed buns, we used to ferment cornmeal with white flour and then steam the dish with fermented cornmeal. This way, the cornmeal dish becomes soft and not so hard after cooking. Some people make this dish directly from cornmeal, depending on their diet.

Breads and cakes baked with plain cornmeal can feel impossible to swallow, so they add white flour and cornstarch to offset the cornmeal's delicious flavor. Found in some Northeastern restaurants or suburban farmhouses, these basic foods made with cornmeal as the main ingredient are very much in line with today's idea of healthy eating, which is also known as remembering the sweetness and thinking about it. Cornmeal bagpipes from cornmeal farms are a basic food of coarse grains that are often found on tables in rural areas of the North. Coarse grains are known as the scavengers of the body because they are rich in fiber and many vitamins. If you change your tastes correctly, you can rationalize your diet and supplement it with different nutrients. Vegetable dumplings made of cornstarch and bok choy have a golden skin and a delicious filling.