Baked Chinese Dumplings Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 5-7 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Serves: 2-3 people
Ingredients Needed
- 400g/14floz coconut milk (full fat is best)
- 40g/1.4ozs red curry paste
- 3 tablespoons/45ml/1.6flozs fish sauce
- 1.5 tablespoons sugar
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 teaspoons minced ginger
- 2 teaspoons rice vinegar
- 1 head broccoli (around 300g/10.6ozs), cut into florets
- 375g/13ozs frozen dumplings (or as many as can fit in your casserole or baking dish)
- Green onions, coriander, toasted sesame seeds and chilli oil to garnish
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 MIX - Preheat oven to 170C/340F fan forced or 190C/374F conventional and have a large casserole dish (3.5L or 3.6quart) or baking dish ready. In the dish, whisk the coconut milk, red curry paste, fish sauce, sugar, garlic, ginger and rice vinegar with a silicon covered whisk (metal will scratch the casserole's surface). OR you can whisk all of the sauce ingredients in a jug and then pour it over the vegetables and dumplings. Make sure to check for seasoning if it needs a bit more sugar, fish sauce or vinegar to balance it.
Step 2 BAKE - Place the broccoli florets in the sauce and then place the dumplings around the broccoli. Spoon the sauce over the broccoli and the dumplings and then cover with a lid or foil. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove the lid and bake for another 10 minutes.
Step 3 GARNISH - Dress the dumplings with chopped green onions, coriander leaves, toasted sesame seeds and drizzle with chilli crisp oil.
Substitution notes and ingredients:
You can sub the coconut milk for evaporated milk.
If you want to keep this vegan, you can replace the fish sauce with soy sauce
Replace the rice vinegar or another mild vinegar like apple cider vinegar, sherry vinegar, white wine vinegar or champagne vinegar. Otherwise you can also use lime juice.
Personal Note
I made these on a very lazy weekend. Lately, I've started trying to schedule very little to on weekends and I had a whole weekend where I had nothing on. This weekend happened serendipitously as plans for Saturday night dinner were moved to the night before.
Doing nothing wasn't 100% true, I was working and photographing and filming recipes on both Saturday and Sunday, but I didn't have to technically leave the house except to walk the dogs with Mr NQN. Plus it was gloriously sunny and since we got rid of the moth plague, I love nothing more than lying in the bed watching tv with the windows open and the sun streaming in. I'm sure this is what they mean by "rotting in bed".
By Saturday night, I looked outside and wished that I was going out. "I have a whole weekend where I have nothing to do," I told Sammie. She responded that if she knew me I'd go somewhere because I get so stir crazy. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I had already told Mr NQN that we were going out for lunch the following day! But following that I was back at home, making these dumplings for the easiest ever dinner!
So tell me Dear Reader, do you enjoy rotting in bed? Have you ever baked dumplings?
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