Friday, January 20, 2017

Cheeseburger Dumplings



Ingredients
1 lb. ground beef
1/2 cup scallions, sliced
1/2 cup onions, diced
1 cup American cheese, diced
Dumpling wrappers
Egg yolk
Melted butter
1 tbsp. salt
2 tsp. pepper
1 cup hot sauce
1 cup ketchup
1 tbsp. ginger, finely minced

Directions
In a sauté pan, cook diced onions on high heat until tender. Remove, cool, and reserve.
In a mixing bowl mix ground beef, scallions, cooked onions, American cheese, salt and pepper.
Place a tablespoon of beef mixture in a the center of a dumpling wrapper, seal and make into desire shape using cold water on the edges.
Blanch dumplings in boiling water for one minute, then cool dumplings and paint light with egg yolk first, then melted butter.
In a medium high heat sauce pan, shallow fry dumpling until they are nice and golden brown on the outside and hot all the way through.
Mix hot sauce, ketchup and ginger together in separate bowl.
Season dumplings with a sprinkle of salt and serve with sliced pickles and ketchup.

Notes
http://people.com/food/cheeseburger-dumpling-recipe-tailgate-game-day/.  Makes 22 - 24.