Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Japanese Style Siu-Mai

Japanese style siu-mai called "Shumai" is a bit different from Chinese one. Our siu-mai uses white-clear siu-mai skin instead of yellow one. Also, green peas or baby shrimp is the symbol of our siu-mai. We put a bit of Karashi mustard and dip in soy sauce + rice vinegar sauce to have an extra flavor to it. Interesting? =)
So today, I'll post my original Siu-Mai recipe here.  


Japanese Style Siu-Mai
For 10-15 Serving 

Ingredients: 
     Shu-mai Skin 
     (sells at T&T / H-mart in Vancouver area)
     Grounded Pork                      160 g
     Chopped Onion -small           1/2
     Chopped dried scallop or dried shrimp      1 table spoon
     (soak it in the water)
     Chopped Shitake mushroom            1
    (dried one is fine, soak it in the water)
     Corn Starch                       2.5 table spoon 


     ☆Oyster sauce                   1 tea spoon
     ☆Soy sauce                       1.5 tea spoon
     ☆Sugar                              1/2 tea spoon
  ☆Cooking Sake                 1/2 tea spoon
     ☆Sesame oil                      1 tea spoon
     ☆Black pepper                  1/2 tea spoon
     ☆Minced ginger                1/2 tea spoon

     Soy sauce + Vinegar sauce (Soy sauce : Vinegar = 3:1)

I recommend paste style in a tube. You can get it at T&T, H-mart, and Konbiniya on Robson st. in Vancouver area. I just found out that the Karashi paste tube from S&B company has a picture of Shumai on the package =)
Step 1: Add ☆ingredients into ground pork and Mix well with hand in a large bowl. 

Step 2: Coat chopped onion with corn starch to keep onion's natural sweetness of Umami inside.

Step 3: Add coated onion, shiitake mushroom, and dried scallop/ shrimp into the Mixture from Step 1. Cover it with plastic wrap, and let it sit in the fridge for 1-2 hour.

Step 4: Take out Step 3, and start to wrap the mixture with shumai skins as picture below.
Make a circle with a thumb and forefinger. 

Press and make a Shumai shape

Step 5: Put Green peas or baby shrimp on top, and Steam it for 10-15 min.
Hope you Enjoy my recipe =)

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