Chinese Dumplings with Ginger-Scallion Dipping Sauce

Category: Side Dish

Cuisine: Chinese

Ready in 30 minutes

Ingredients

1 pn Cayenne pepper or to taste

Ginger-Scallion Sauce see

2 ts fresh cilantro Minced

3 lg Shrimp peeled and deveined

2 lg Egg whites

1 1/2 ts Low-sodium soy sauce

20 2-inch square won-ton wrappers

1 clove Garlic peeled

4 oz Sea bass fillets or other

1/8 ts Chinese 5-spice powder

1 Scallion chopped

1 pn Salt or adjust amount to taste


Directions

1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. 2. With the motor running, add garlic through the feed tube of a food processor and process until minced. Add sea bass, shrimp and scallion, and pulse for 10 seconds. Add egg whites, soy, cilantro, Chinese 5-spice powder, salt and cayenne, and pulse until well combined, about 10 seconds. 3. Lay 5 wonton wrappers on a dry work surface and place 1 1/2 tsp. of fish mixture in the center of each wrapper. Rub a drop of water on the edges of two adjoining sides of each wrapper and fold in half to form a triangle, pressing firmly to seal. 4. Fill rest of wrappers. 5. Gently drop the dumplings into the boiling water in batches, and remove with a slotted spoon when they float to the surface. Drain on paper towels. 6. To serve, arrange 5 dumplings on each of 4 salad plates and spoon Ginger-Scallion Dipping Sauce over the dumplings. Pass remaining sauce at the table. Nutritional information (with Ginger-Scallion Dipping Sauce) 178 calories per serving (8% from fat) SPA FOOD, by Lori Longbotham and Diane Quagliani, Jan/Feb 1998 AMERICAN HEALTH, Readers Digest Publication, see also www.americanhealth.com Notes: These dumplings are so full of flavor youd never guess theyre lowfat. The lean secret? Theyre filled with fish, not pork, then simmered instead of fried. >from Kitpath with a little help from mcbuster 2.0d Recipe by: Rancho La Paerta, Baja California, Mexico Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by KitPATh <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu> on Mar 07, 1998

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