Steps to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Nyonya Rice Dumpling

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Nyonya Rice Dumplings with Chicken Recipe (Nyonya Chang / Nyonya Zongzi) 娘惹鸡肉粽子 Wrap the edge of the leaves to either left or right side of the rice dumpling. And we're ready to tie it up with a bamboo string. Nyonya cuisine or sometimes you will refer to as Peranakan cuisine is a hybrid between the traditional Chinese and Differences between nyonya chang and other zongzi (bak chang).

Nyonya Rice Dumpling is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Nyonya Rice Dumpling is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook nyonya rice dumpling using 28 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Nyonya Rice Dumpling:

1. Prepare Prepared The Night Before:
2. Take 10 g Organic Blue Pea Flowers,
3. Make ready 500 g Glutinous White Rice,
4. Prepare 800 g Chicken Stock Room Temperature,
5. Make ready Pinch Sea Salt,
6. Prepare Pinch White Pepper,
7. Prepare 40 g Chinese Dried Mushrooms,
8. Prepare 30 g Dried Scallops,
9. Take 10 g Dried Shrimps,
10. Get 500 g Chicken Thigh Skinless Boneless Finely Diced,
11. Take 1/2 TBSP Kecap Manis,
12. Prepare 2 TBSP Light Soy Sauce,
13. Get 2 TBSP Shao Xing Wine / Hua Tiao Wine,
14. Get Pinch Dried Mushroom Powder.
15. Take 12 Dried Bamboo Leaves,
16. Take Dumplings:
17. Take Sesame Oil, For Stir-Frying
18. Prepare 1/2 Inch Ginger Finely Minced,
19. Take Scallions Finely Chopped, A Handful + More For Garnishing
20. Take Pinch Sea Salt,
21. Take Pinch White Pepper,
22. Take 10 Shallots Finely Minced,
23. Prepare 6 Cloves Garlic Finely Minced,
24. Prepare 3 TBSP Coriander Powder,
25. Get Bull Head Brand Chinese BBQ Sauce, 3 TBSP
26. Get 1 TBSP Galangal Finely Grated,
27. Take 150 g Candied Winter Melon Finely Diced,
28. Make ready 1 Handful Pandan Leaves,

The extra fats make the dumplings taste really delicious. Today, I'm going to share a vegetarian Nyonya glutinous rice dumpling bak chang (zong zi) 素娘惹 I love my grandma. And I was thinking of her when I made these vegetarian mushroom nyonya bak. PagesBusinessesMedia/news companyBroadcasting & media production companyLauren's KitchenVideosNyonya Rice Dumpling ( Nyonya Chang).

Instructions to make Nyonya Rice Dumpling:

1. Prepare the night before. - - In a large bowl, add blue pea flowers and 800g of warm water. - - Set aside to cool and allow the flowers to dye the water with a shade of blue. - - Drain and discard the flowers, keeping the wonderful blue colored water. - - Wash the glutinous rice under running water and drain.
2. Keep washing and draining for about 5 times. - - Add half of the rice into the blue colored water. - - Season with salt and pepper. - - Stir to combine well and set aside overnight.
3. Transfer the other half of the rice into another large bowl. - - Add in chicken stock, mushrooms, scallops, shrimps, salt and pepper. - - Stir to combine well and set aside overnight. - - In another bowl, add chicken, kecap manis, soy sauce, wine, salt, pepper and mushroom powder. - - Stir to coat the chicken well. - - Cover with cling film and marinate in the fridge overnight.
4. Prepare the dumplings. - - The next day, the mushroom and scallops should have hydrated. - - Fish them out. Finely dice the mushroom and shred the scallops by simply pulling them apart.
5. Drain the blue colored rice and discard the water. - - Drain the other bowl of rice, keeping the water. - - You will need the water at a later stage.
6. In a skillet over medium heat, add sesame oil. - - Once the oil is heated up, add in mushrooms. - - Saute until the mushrooms start to caramelize. - - Drizzle in some of that rice water. - - Add in ginger and saute until aromatic.
7. Add in scallions, season with salt and pepper, saute until well combined. - - Remove from heat and set aside. - - In the same skillet over medium heat, add sesame oil. - - Once the oil is heated up, add in shallots. - - Saute until translucent.
8. Add in garlic and saute until aromatic. - - Add in coriander powder and saute until well combined. - - Drizzle in some of that rice water to deglaze. - - Add in galangal, BBQ sauce and shredded scallops.
9. Saute until well combined. - - Deglaze with some of that rice water. - - Season with salt and pepper. - - Lastly, add in the wintermelon. - - Give it a final saute, remove from heat and set aside.
10. I am doing an open-faced concept as shown in the photos. You can choose to wrap the rice and fillings up into pyramid-shaped dumplings if desired. I will include the steps for both concepts.*
11. Open-faced concept: - - I am using an electric double-decker steamer. You can use 2 decks of bamboo steamers and steam in a wok over medium heat with water. You will need to do in batches if your bamboo steamers are small. - - Wipe the bamboo leaves clean with a kitchen towel.
12. Lay bamboo leaves on the steamer. - - Lay some pandan leaves over the bamboo leaves. - - Spoon in the glutinous rice, white and blue separating from one another, over the top. - - Tied 2 knots of pandan leaves and place them on top of the rice. - - This is your bottom deck.
13. Cover and steam for 40 mins. - - Spoon the chicken and mushroom over another deck of steamer. - - Spreading out evenly. - - Place this deck over the rice deck. - - Steam together for another 30 mins or until the rice is fully cooked.
14. I did it this way so that the flavors of the chicken and mushrooms will infuse the rice and vice versa. I cook the rice 1st cos the rice takes longer time to cook.*
15. Remove from heat and transfer onto serving plate. - - Garnish with scallions and serve immediately. - - If you want the same presentation as shown in the photos, place the white rice into a 4-inch pastry ring. Spoon the chicken and mushroom over the rice. Lastly, blue rice. Using the back of a spoon to compact at every layer. Garnish with some scallions.
16. Wrapped concept: - - Clean and wipe the bamboo leaves with a kitchen towel. - - Bring a large heavy pot of water to a rolling boil. - - Take 2 bamboo leaves, one on top of the other, take the halfway point, fold and form it into a cone shape.
17. Add a scoop of the white rice into the cone. - - Pack it down firmly. - - Add 2 spoonfuls of the chicken and mushrooms. - - Add a scoop of blue rice on top. - - Pack it down firmly.
18. Fold the leaves down and form a pyramid shape. - - Tie the dumplings tightly with hemp strings. - - It takes a few practices until you get it right. Most importantly is to the tie the dumplings tightly.
19. Repeat the process for the remaining dumplings. - - Add the dumplings into the boiling water. - - Cover and boil for about 2.5 hours.
20. At the 2 hours mark, remove one of the dumplings, unwrap and test if it is cooked. - - If it is cooked, remove from heat, place in a wire cooling rack to drain off excess water and cool down. - - If it is not yet cooked, continue cooking for another hour and check again, - - When it is cool enuff to handle, unwrap and serve.

And I was thinking of her when I made these vegetarian mushroom nyonya bak. PagesBusinessesMedia/news companyBroadcasting & media production companyLauren's KitchenVideosNyonya Rice Dumpling ( Nyonya Chang). Rinse glutinous rice until water runs clear, picked out stones and dirt in the rice. Zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) are traditionally eaten during the Duanwu Festival (Doubler Fifth Nyonya chang (娘惹粽): A specialty of Peranakan cuisine, this zongzi are made similarly to southern..(chang = rice dumpling in hokkien dialect). the filling include pork, dried shrimps, dried shitake (ketumbar) & pandan leaves used in this peranakan influenced rice dumpling add to the aroma. See more ideas about Rice dumplings recipe, Dumpling, Dumpling recipe.

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