Potstickers with a Crispy Skirt

Potstickers have no soul when they don’t wear golden brown crispy skirts. This recipe teaches you 2 simple methods to make the snowflake-like potsticker crust. You can use these methods to cook both fresh homemade dumplings and frozen potstickers from a grocery store. Now, let’s make beautiful lace skirts for our postickers!
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp All purpose flour
- 1 tbsp Cooking oil (vegetable oil, corn oil, or sunflower seed oil)
- 8 tbsp Cold water
- 16 Frozen potstickers
- 1 tbsp Cooking oil (Spray twice if you are going to use an oil sprayer.)
Instructions
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--- Method 1: Flat Skirt Potstickers ---
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In a bowl, mix all the ingredients for the slurry until well combined (no lumps can be seen). Set aside.
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Pour 1 tablespoon of cooking oil into a nonstick fry pan. Or spray twice if you use an oil spray.
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Add the potstickers.
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Turn on medium heat.
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Pan fry potstickers over medium heat for 4 minutes until the bottoms turn gold.
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Stir the slurry with a spoon. Pour in the slurry around the edge of the fry pan.
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Cover the lid.
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Keep using medium heat to pan fry the potstickers for about 6 minutes, until most of the water evaporates.
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Once most of the water has evaporated, open the lid.
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Keep using medium heat to pan fry the potstickers for about 2 more minutes, until the crust turns crispy and golden brown.
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Turn off the heat. Cover the fry pan with a plate.
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Flip the fry pan to transfer the potstickers onto the plate.
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Serve with dipping sauce.
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--- Method 2: Standing Skirt Potstickers ---
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Preheat a nonstick fry pan over medium heat for 1 minute.
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Pour in 1 tablespoon of slurry. Do not spread the slurry. We want it to stay as a tongue shape.
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Cook the slurry over medium heat for about 30 seconds, let the water evaporate a bit.
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Put potstickers on one end of the slurry.
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Pan fry over medium heat for about 5 more minutes until the slurry turns into a crispy golden brown crust.
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