Prawns Har Gow

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Prawns Har gow is 5-6 persons. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have Prawns Har gow using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Har gow or Ha Cao is a traditional Cantonese prawns dumpling. It is prepared with a filling of coarsely chopped shrimp, a bit of pork fat and bamboo shoots. The prawns filling is lightly seasoned with ground pepper, salt, sugar, sesame oil and Shaoxing cooking wine. Some variations include oyster sauce, minced garlic and ginger.

The filling is placed on a thin and delicate wrapper made from a blend of plain flour and tapioca starch. The wrapper is folded over the filling, then sealed with the finest craftsmanship of multiple tiny pleats. Once the dumplings are prepared, they go into a bamboo steamer to cook for about 6 minutes until the wrapper becomes translucent. You can actually see the pink shrimp through the wrapper once the dumplings are steamed.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Make ready to make Prawns Har gow:

1. Shrimp Filling
2. 500 grams raw prawns
3. 50 grams bamboo shoot (rinse thoroughly and squeeze out excess water, finely chopped)
4. 50 grams pork fat (optional; mince finely into paste)
5. 2 teaspoons oyster sauce
6. 1 tsp soysauce
7. 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
8. 1 teaspoon granulated white sugar
9. 2-3 teaspoons sesame oil
10. 1-2 tablespoon Shaoxing wine
11. 1/2 tablespoon corn starch
12. Dough
13. You can buy ready make har gow wrapper in some big asian grocery shop but here is ingredients for you
14. 1 cup rice flour
15. 1/4 corn flour or tapioca starch
16. 1/4 teaspoon salt
17. 1/4 teaspoon vegetable oil
18. 160 grams boiling water (240 mL or about 2/3 cups)

Steps to make to make Prawns Har gow

1. Cut raw prawns in half vertical way and take the black bit off. Bash it and coarsely chop them.
2. Coarsely chop some bamboo shoots and transfer both to a medium-sized bowl. Add finder chopped pork fat. Season with oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, white pepper, sesame oil, Shaoxing cooking wine and corn starch.
3. To make the dumplings, apply oil to the back side of a knife. Use the backside of that knife to flatten the dough into a circle, with one side slightly thicker than the other. The thicker side will be the base of the filling. The other side will be the delicate pleated folds.
4. If you are making dough from scratch; Here is the method how to make Har gow dough. In a bowl of a stand mixer, mix together plain flour, tapioca starch and salt. Then add boiling water a little at a time and knead until the dough comes together. Add oil until you get a soft ball that pulls cleanly away from the sides of the mixing bowl.
5. Roll the dough into a thin log and cut out pieces of 10-12 g each. Keep the dough covered at all times to prevent drying.
6. Here is the store bought one you can use but if you use store bought one you need some water to bind the both sides dough together. Place filling off-centre on the thicker base.
7. Fold the thinner side of the wrapper over and pinch it to make pleats from one end with your fingers then use your thumb and index finger, start making a pleat. As you fold each pleat, press the folded pleat tightly against the back part of wrapper using your other thumb and index finger.
8. Traditionally they make 13 (for lucky number) in the Chinese restaurant and I managed to do about 10.
9. Oil the base of the bamboo steamer to prevent dumplings from sticking. You can also place each dumpling on a small piece of wax paper. Steam for 6 minutes over high heat. Serve immediately with a soy or chili sauce.

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