Step-by-Step Guide to Make Perfect Siu Mai (Chinese Dumpling with Chicken and Shrimp)

Siu Mai (Chinese Dumpling with Chicken and Shrimp).

You can cook Siu Mai (Chinese Dumpling with Chicken and Shrimp) using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Siu Mai (Chinese Dumpling with Chicken and Shrimp)

1. You need of Skin.
2. It's 60 grams of flour.
3. You need 4 of eggs.
4. Prepare of Seasonings.
5. It's 2 tbsp of sugar.
6. You need 2 tbsp of light soy sauce.
7. It's 3 tsp of salt.
8. It's 1 tsp of seame oil.
9. Prepare 1 dash of pepper.
10. You need 1 tbsp of oyster sauce.
11. You need of Filling.
12. It's 320 grams of lean chicken.
13. It's 320 grams of shrimp.
14. You need 5 of mushrooms; soaked.

Siu Mai (Chinese Dumpling with Chicken and Shrimp) instructions

1. Rinse shrimp and dry it with cloth, put the shrimp into a big plate, add salt and stir for about 2 minutes.
2. Carve lean chicken and mushrooms into small grains, add the stirred shrimp, light soy sauce, sugar, and oyster sauce, stir for 3 minutes, add sesame oil and pepper.
3. Sieve the flour to get rid of big grains, put egg in the flour, stir until a soft dough is formed.
4. Slice the dough to form a long roll, cut the roll into small pieces (about 45 pieces), press each piece into a thin wrapper of 4 cm diameter (this is the skin of Siu Mai).
5. Hold the skin in the left hand near the tip of the fingers, spread the filling with a chopstick, roll the dough into a cylidrical form with the filling exposed at the top.
6. Press the filling again with a bamboo stick, put the dough in an oil-spread steam basket, steam for about 5 minutes.