Gyoza : Dumplings Recipe

Gyoza is my favorite. I guess it called dumplings in English. You can find in the frozen food area, but I make these every now and then. It is a lot of work to make but when I eat them, it worth the trouble.

Ground pork : 150 gram
Cabbage : 200 gram
Green onion : 2 or 3 strings
grated ginger : about 1 tea spoon
Chinese chive (if available) : 50 gram

Soy Sauce 1/2 tea spoon
Salt 1/2 tea spoon
Sake (Japanese rice wine) 1 table spoon
Sesame Oil 1 tea spoon

Gyoza Skin : 1 pack

1) Boil cabbage for a few minute, drain and squeeze off the liquid and chop into mince. chop all other vegetables. throw in meat and all the seasonings in a bowl and mix well with your hands (yack!)

2) Put spoonful of the mixture above on the gyoza skin.

Wet the half end and fold in to make a gyoza.
You can make about 30 gyoza with ingredients above.

3) heat the pan with oil, put gyoza on the pan and put a nice brown mark on a side.

Flip the gyoza and add 1/4 cup of the water and put a lid on a pan. simmer for 3 to 4 minute. let the water evaporate and make gyoza  crunchy with a golden mark. Serve and enjoy with a soy sauce!

Some people make gyoza skin but I've never made them.

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Burrito for picky eater

At least once a week, we have burritos for dinner.  I don't know about authentic recipe, but this is my recipe for my son, who doesn't eat vegetables otherwise.

Cut garlic, half onion, chicken, may be green pepper, cilantro, and stir fly until everything is nicely cooked. season with spices like paprika, cumin, garlic powder, coriander powder, etc..  salt and half of lemon juice.

I usually wrap with rice, refried bean, meat (above) guacamole (if available) salsa, cheese sour cream..

Yummy! Improved Bread Machine Recipe

I bake bread with Panasonic Bread Machine that I bought 3 years ago. I struggle to find a good recipe and I was using this recipe from the blog I wrote while ago but I wasn't totally satisfied with that and now, I think I am settled with this one.

Bread Flour : about 200g
Gluten Flour : about one Table Spoon or 10g
Whole Grain flour : 40g

The total flour should be 250g

Sugar : 2 table spoons
Salt : 1 tea spoon
Butter : about 10g
Milk : 170 cc

Yeast : little less than 1 tea spoon

I use brown sugar, sea salt and almond milk for healthier option. I sometimes use coconut oil instead of butter.

I like this recipe more because you don't have to use scale when you put sugar and salt. Even butter doesn't have to be exact. I used to use powder milk and water but since I don't bake bread overnight because it's too noisy in this little apartment. It takes 4 hours in a usual setting so you need to plan but short setting makes it done in 2 hours though it makes the bread a little less fluffy. The gluten is the key to make bread little more fluffier.

I love the smell of the baking bread.

I have this one! Works good.