Ingredients:
- 1 block tofu
- 1 cup wheat gluten
- 2 cups pureed carrots
- 1/4 cup sesame oil
- 1/4 cup mushroom sauce
- 1 package hai cao mix (found at local Asian supermarket)
Ingredients to make dough from scratch (optional):
- 1 1/4 cups wheat starch (note: this is different from wheat flour)
- 1/4 tapioca starch (may substitute tapioca flour, which is the same thing)
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vegetable oil
Direction to make dough from scratch:
- Mix dry ingredients together
- Add water and vegetable oil
- Stir until you have a dough
- Knead until smooth (may add more wheat starch if dough is too sticky)
Special equipment:
- Blender
- Steamer
- Parchment paper (optional)
Directions:
- Put block of tofu in large bowl and mash it up
- Add carrots and mix well
- Blend mixture if too coarse
- Add wheat gluten and mix well
- Add mushroom sauce and sesame oil
- Mix well and set aside
- Follow directions on hai cao mix to make dough or follow directions to make dough from scratch (see above)
- Pinch off a small piece of the dough and roll into a ball
- Flatten the ball with a small rolling pin until you get a very thin circle
- (Alternatively may flatten ball on your hand until you get a thin circle or put ball between two pieces of parchment paper and flatten with rolling pin)
- Add about a teaspoonful of carrot mixure and fold up circle, pleating the edge
- Steam for 10 minutes
- Serve hot with some soy sauce
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