Chef John’s Best Dumpling Recipes

Hello Food Wishers! This is Chef John's Corporate Overlords popping in to share Chef John’s Best Dumpling Recipes with you! From Asia to Germany to Italy, Chef John will take you on a world tour of dumplings. Whether it’s the perfect potsticker you’re looking for, a lazy take on the classic pork dumpling, homemade barbecue pork bao, or a nice comforting bowl of spätzle, John has just the right dumpling for you.

Potstickers:

Lazy Pork Dumplings:

Steamed Barbecue Pork Buns (Char Siu Bao):

Spätzle (Spaetzle):

Roman-Style Gnocchi:

0:00 Potstickers
10:06 Lazy Pork Dumplings
20:08 Steamed Barbecue Pork Buns
30:08 Spätzle
37:44 Roman-Style Gnocchi

[lifuranph.d.]

THE TALE OF THE MAGIC POTSTICKERS.

I worked in a American Chinese restaurant that by ACCIDENT used RED cabbage for their potstickers by an ordering error on a 3 day national holiday weekend. We had to use it, as that was all we had. We cleaned out every supermarket of GREEN cabbage for a 10 mile radius that prior week.

Chef John really mentioned the possible use of RED cabbage today at 1:02 .


We had a weeks supply of potstickers made with RED cabbage in lieu of green cabbage. The problem was the filling was BLUE as the kitchen staff made the filling WITHOUT AN ACID [usually vinegar] TO MAKE THE CABBAGE RED.

No one would eat the BLUE potstickers. Then I got an idea and named this culinary fiasco MAGIC potstickers.

I made a special dipping sauce of black vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, ginger and a bit of sugar. When you dipped the BLUE potstickers in the vinegar based sauce the BLUE potstickers MAGICALLY TURNED RED!

The MAGIC potstickers were a big hit with the kids. The grownups not so much. For months after we finally sold out all the BLUE potstickers, kids would still ask for the MAGIC potstickers. A funny, but true story.

[jodidavis]

I hope everyone else appreciates your humor.

[SunnyMcvin]

I hate these corporate overlords. My love for chef John's cooking videos is the only barrier protecting them from me... 😤

[starlight]

I love listening to your calm spirit voice!

[NibiruOrigin]

Almost an hour of dumpling recipes? I didn't know it was my birthday.

[debwilson]

I love watching this man I fount it by accident but I can’t stop watching those dumplings look scrumptious I cook a lot of Asian food and I am going to try these recipes

[maikborchardt]

Man, I'm German and I've yet to find a better explaination of Spätzle! Awesome!

[argetlamzn]

“The binging with babish off your cabbage” 😂😂😂 love your quips!

[tawpgk]

I must try these chef on cold fall day when I don't want to rake leaves....

[Bear-cmvl]

If you are into Asian dipping sauces, make a larger portion of the equal parts vinegar and soy sauce mix and let the extra age. The mellowed mix has a different flavor than the raw mix and is actually traditional Chinese, according to Grandmother Wong. It can also be flavored with chilies, scallions fried onions and/or garlic when serving.

[SilentlyCookingVideo]

Finally. All the best dumplings all in one place.

[jvallas]

I have made spaetzle with the special tool and with a potato ricer (this works, too), but a cheese grater never occurred to me. Brilliant! The one way I cannot master is the wooden board and stick that pushes it off into the water. I’ve watched German ladies on YouTube doing this, and it’s so cool.

[unintentionallydramatic]

30:26
Austrian here, that is a culturally correct assessment.
They're generally speaking considered easy pasta here, being related to the Schupf (toss-and-catch) noodle whose core principle is only mildly different.
Big ups, you inadvertedly hit the nail on the head.

[jamesthereaper]

How heavy is the world's heaviest dumpling?

Wonton.

[christinamiller]

Made these for a party platter tonight. they turned out GREAT. made the potstickers with a bunch of leftovers I had, added the cabbage and onions and seasonings and they went like wildfire! Time consuming, but worth the trouble. Thank Chef ! Jon

[nikkislaktoski]

I like to add finely chopped water chestnuts so you get a little crunch inside

[yeebabby]

Of course there isn't a best way to make dumplings. But here's my way to make them as a Hong Konger. Hope it help.
For the meat: First, add some sugar just 1-2 teaspoon is fine. It will balance all the saltiness. Add a few tablespoon of water to the meat. Stir the meat until all the things combined and water is absorbed. The meat will like a "sticky dough".
For the vegetable: If you use cabbage, add some salt to let the water come out. Make sure you drain and dry them before adding to the meat. Because it may make your filling watery.

[suzz]

I love potstickers but my fav is boiled dumplings in soup. I have German ancestry and I grew up with my mom making delicious dumplings :)

[LP-btuk]

"Fork it and fork it good" 🤩
-Chef John !!

[ashaboussolo]

Thank you Chef John, your videos are so easy and informative. I love cooking for my family and I’m also a foodie.