Pork Dumplings

These are wonder little eggroll or pot sticker type dumplings, depending on how you choose to cook them. Fried in oil they are more like an eggroll and steamed more like a pot sticker. You don't have to use pork, but any meat of your choosing.

-Marinate pork loins, shredded (marinade is the entry preceeding this one)
-1 pkg. Broccoli cole slaw mix (or you can use a mixture of your liking with shredded cabbage and carrots.
-Dumpling or wonton wrappers
-Small dish of water

1. Blanch or gently stir fry cole slaw mix or vegetable with 2 tbsp. water for about 2minutes. Remove, drain and place on paper towels to soak any remaining water.
2. Place a wonton wrapper, place 1 tbsp. or shredded pork and same amount of vegetable mix.
3. FOR DUMPLINGS: Fold up like a burrito, bringing bottom corner up, folding left and right corners over and roll up-seal with a bit of water to the edges.
FOR POT STICKERS: Bring opposite edges together above filling to resemble that of a taco shell. Press edges together and create pleats; pinch pleats together to seal. Genlty press the around the filling, eliminating any air pockets.
4. Cooking DUMPLINGS #1: Heat oil in deep fryer, adding 2-3 dumplings, one at a time to fryer. Cook evenly on both sides, 1-2 minutes each until golden brown. Remove to paper towels to remove excess oil.
Cooking DUMPLINGS #2: In a Dutch oven double boiler or some other large pan with a lid, place a lightly oiled metal steamer over an inch of water (creating a double boiler). Bring the water to a boil. Place dumplings in pan, careful that they don't touch or they will stick together, cover and steam cook 8 minutes.
Cooking POT STICKERS: Heat 1 1/2 tsp. of oil (vegetable or peanut) in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Place pot stickers in skillet and cook about 2 minutes-be sure edges don't touch or they will stick. Add 1/4 c. water and immediately cover pan with lid-reduce heat to medium. Cook pot stickers for about 6 minutes. Remove cover and return heat to medium-high and cook off any remaining water and continue to fry until the sides are golden adn crispy, 2-3 minutes.

24 Dumplings/Pot stickers