During the New Year, dumplings are very popular both in the south and in the north. I remember that at every family gathering, one of the main courses is dumplings. It can be seen that the status of dumplings in the hearts of Nanchang people is probably only limited to Nanchang's most famous Nanchang fried noodles and white sugar cakes.
Although the school has not been completely closed recently, for a sub-department teacher like me, because there are no classes, I basically stay at home. In addition to exercising, the most important thing to stay at home is to cook your favorite food. Sometimes I also embroider cross-stitch, but because my home has recently installed new cables, there are many more channels to watch than before. I often lock in to the Chinese Food Channel to learn to cook delicious food. Once I saw a program where a stew was made. When preparing meat, a proper amount of tea was added. The stew was delicious and not greasy. So I made dumplings in this way, and the taste was really different.
Yesterday, I asked my husband to send 20 dumplings with tea water to my parents. After eating them, they all said they were delicious. My mother also said that it didn't taste like pork at all. I asked her if it was because of the water chestnut. My mother said no, and later I told her it was because of the tea water. She said no wonder it tasted so delicious! She also told me that after my father ate it last night, he said he didn't know where I bought the pork. This pork tasted very good!
Later, I thought about it and found that there is a famous dish in Hangzhou that is Longjing shrimp, which uses Longjing tea water. It seems that when tea leaves and water are added to the dish, they can indeed increase the aroma and umami of the dish.
In fact, many delicious things seem to be made in the same way, but as long as they are slightly improved, the taste will be very different. So Diandian thinks that the most intelligent person in life is!
Horseshoe pork dumplings
By VinceAbshire
Recipe Recommendations
- salty and fresh
- cook
- three-quarters of an hour
- simple
Steps for Horseshoe pork dumplings

1
Prepare all the ingredients.
2
Make a pot of tea leaves. (Every morning our family heats water and makes a pot of tea)
3
Put the meat paste into a large bowl, add the eggs, diced water chestnut and ginger in turn. Then add appropriate amount of salt, soy sauce and raw flour.
4
Put the meat paste into a large bowl, add the eggs, diced water chestnut and ginger in turn. Then add appropriate amount of salt, soy sauce and raw flour.
5
Add tea water in portions and stir to form filling.
6
Wrap in the filling.Horseshoe pork dumplings Make Tips
Diandian nag: 1. The tea leaves used by Diandian are very ordinary tea leaves. If there are good tea leaves at home, it will taste better. 2. When cooking dumplings, remember to add a small amount of salt to the boiling water so that the dumplings will not stick to the pan. And the dumplings cooked are all very crisp!