Cute Dumplings Recipe (Vegetable Colored Dumpling Wrappers)

Ingredients

• 200 g water ((room temperature))
• 400 g flour ((all purpose))
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 200 g tomato juice ((Blend 2 medium-size tomatoes. No need to add water.))
• 400 g flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 210 g pumpkin puree ((Steam 200g pumpkin until soft, add 50g water, blend until smooth, weigh 220g pumpkin puree.))
• 400 g flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 200 g spinach juice
• 400 g flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 210 g black bean soy milk
• 1/4 tsp black food coloring
• 400 g flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 200 g carrot juice ((Blend 2 medium-size carrot (about 120g) with 1/2 cup of water until smooth, weigh 200g carrot juice.))
• 400 g flour
• 1/4 tsp salt

Instructions

1. 1

   Use a blender to get 200g vegetable juice of your choice.

2. 2

   Add 200g juice/water and ¼ tsp of salt to 400g all purpose flour. Mix with a pair of chopsticks by stirring clockwise until there's no dry flour in the bowl.

3. 3

   Knead the dough with your hands or a stand mixer at speed 2 for 5 minutes. Shape dough into a rough ball. Cover with plastic food wrap, rest the dough under room temperature for 15 minutes.

4. 4

   Knead the dough with your hands or a stand mixer at speed 2 for 7-8 minutes, knead until it becomes a smooth dough. Cover with plastic food wrap, rest the dough under room temperature for 1 hour (or in the fridge overnight, so that you can prepare the dough the night before).

5. 5

   Dust the dough with flour, pass the dough through a pasta maker's largest setting for a couple of times until the dough becomes a smooth sheet. Gradually turn your pasta maker to thinner settings, until the dough becomes a 2mm-thick sheet. Click to see how to use a pasta machine.

6. 6

   Dust your working surface with flour, spread the dough sheet, use a cookie cutter to cut out round dumpling wrappers 4 inches in diameter.

7. 7

   Wrap dumplings. Check out my pork dumpling filling recipe here! Place a tablespoon of filling in the middle of a wrapper, fold the wrapper in half, press to seal the edges together. Lastly press the two corners together to get an ingot shape dumpling.

8. 8

   Be creative and decorate the dumplings with other colorful dumpling wrappers.

9. 9

   Steam over medium high heat for 15 minutes, serve with aged vinegar and chili oil.