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Basil, Chicken, And Shrimp Dumplings

Basil, Chicken, And Shrimp Dumplings

Cuisine:Chinese

Course:Dinner

45m prep 15m cook 1h 0m ready

These dumplings feature a flavorful filling of ground chicken and shrimp with basil, inspired by Three-Cup Chicken. They are perfect panfried as pot stickers and served with a balsamic-soy dipping sauce.

Ingredients

Servings:

Nutrition (per serving, estimated)

Estimated based off 9 of 11 identified ingredients (per 100 g food data, scaled by amount).

Energy
22 cal
Protein
2.29 g
Carbohydrate
0.54 g
Fiber
0.14 g
Sugars
0.12 g
Sodium
57.8 mg
Total fat
1.16 g
Saturated fat
0.28 g
Monounsaturated fat
0.49 g
Polyunsaturated fat
0.29 g
Vitamins & minerals
  • Calcium: 6.89 mg
  • Iron: 0.19 mg
  • Magnesium: 4.32 mg
  • Phosphorus: 27.5 mg
  • Potassium: 72.6 mg
  • Zinc: 0.2 mg

Let's Prepare

Collect

Gather these ingredients - no prep needed yet.

  • 1 Dumpling Dough
  • Balsamic-Soy Dipping Sauce
  • 454 g ground chicken
  • 29.6 ml soy sauce
  • 14.8 ml sesame oil
  • 14.8 ml Shaoxing wine or dry Marsala wine

Prepare

  • 113 g peeled and deveined gulf shrimp, roughly diced
  • Chop 237 ml fresh basil
  • Chop 2 green onions
  • Mince 9.86 ml garlic
  • Mince 9.86 ml fresh ginger

Let's Cook

  1. Step 1.

    Make the dumpling dough according to the recipe. While the dough is resting, prepare the Balsamic-Soy Dipping Sauce and set aside.

  2. Step 2.

    To make the filling, combine ground chicken, roughly diced shrimp, chopped basil, soy sauce, sesame oil, Shaoxing wine, chopped green onions, minced garlic, and minced ginger in a food processor. Pulse for 5 seconds at a time until well combined, scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula as needed. The ingredients should still be discernible, not pasty. Set the filling aside.

  3. Step 3.

    Fill the dumpling wrappers with the prepared filling, following the instructions for making dumplings.

  4. Step 4.

    Cook the dumplings by boiling, steaming, or panfrying according to the cooking dumplings instructions. Serve with the Balsamic-Soy Dipping Sauce.

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