Chicken dumplings in broth (from Delicious)
This is absolutely delicious, quite hot and oh, so easy to make after work or for a dinner party. Serve it with lots of rice for men with big appetites who think they are just having soup for dinner.
All you do is whiz up some chicken breast, coriander and garlic, mush it into balls ( dumplings) then steam and serve in the broth.
You need for 4:
250 g raw chicken mince or a couple of breasts and whiz them in the whizzer.
1 or 2 garlic cloves
1 tabs coriander leaves
1 egg white
4 tabs light soy
4 cups of chicken stock
1 lemongrass stem chopped in half
a small chunk ( 2.5 cm ) of grated ginger
2 small red chillies
2 star anise
2 tabs lime juice
1 teasp sesame oil
1 tabs fish sauce
½ bunch garlic chives or spring onion or Asian herbs to scatter with
Rice to serve
Optional: Add a Bunch of bok choy to the stock if you need more vegetables and you can substitute any white fish instead of the chicken.
·Whizz up the garlic, chicken, coriander, egg white and ½ of soy (2 tabs) soy sauce in the food whizzer, don’t over process please.
·Watch the manicure because now you are going to stick your hands in this mushy mixture and roll it into balls in your palms,
·Se that was fun. You can delegate that bit if you don’t want to get dirty.
·Pop the dumplings mush on a plate and put in the fridge while you get the broth organised
·Check the fingernails, that wasn’t so bad….
·Now get a big saucepan and fill it with the chicken stock, lemongrass, ginger, chilli, and star anise with 2 cups of water
·Bring to boil then turn to simmer for about 5 minutes
·Put the rice on now because the dumplings will take 10 mins to cook and then bobs your uncle
·Now pop those dumplings into a steamer over the broth and steam them for about 10 minutes
·Now carefully toss them into the stock and then add the lime juice, the rest of the soy, the sesame oil, and the fish sauce into the broth too.
·Voila all is ready!
·Serve a couplings of dumplings in each bowl, bobbing around in the broth and add some chives or herbs for a bit of snazzy garnish
·You might want to throw a bit of soy on the table and a bowl of rice and some chilli bean sauce
Divine
1 tabs fish sauce
½ bunch garlic chives or spring onion or Asian herbs to scatter with
Rice to serve
Optional: Add a Bunch of bok choy to the stock if you need more vegetables and you can substitute any white fish instead of the chicken
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