Easy Handmade Gyoza and Wonton Skins

Name: Easy Handmade Gyoza and Wonton Skins
Yield: 24 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 100 grams Cake flour (or bread flour); 75 ml Lukewarm water (adjust as needed)

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I learned how to make gyoza dumpling by dividing them into small portions and rolling each one out into a circle, but it's a lot of work so I created this simpler method. I think this is perfect for beginners. Handmade skins are chewy and delicious.

I use 50g each of bread and cake flours, but you can just use one or the other. Make sure to dust the skins with lots of flour if you stck them. If you freeze the skins without flouring them they tend to stick together easily. If you fill the skins to form the dumplings, and line them up on plastic wrap without touching each other they will freeze nicely. Once the dumplings are frozen, you can pack them in a plastic bag. Recipe by mini

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

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Ingredients

24 servings

100 gramsCake flour (or bread flour)
75 mlLukewarm water (adjust as needed)

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Steps

1

Put the lukewarm water in the flour in 3 batches, while mixing using a cutting motion with a spatula.
2

When the mixture is crumbly, press down with your hands while gathering in the flour to form a cohesive mass. Add a bit more water if needed.
3

When the dough has come together and is fairly tender (about as soft as your earlobe), flour your work surface and your hands and knead. You can adjust the consistency of the dough with the flour too.
4

Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and rest for at least 15 minutes. I recommend making the filling while the dough rests. By resting it, the dough becomes easier to roll out.
5

Flour both the work surface and a rolling pin. Cut the dough in half, roll each piece into a ball and press flat onto the work surface. Roll out back and forth and side to side with the rolling pin. If you roll the dough onto the rolling pin diagonally at the end, this will result in a square.
6

Roll the dough out very thinly, and cut out with a cup or something similar. You can just cut it into squares too. Use the leftover bits in soups or ramen.
7

For wonton dumplings, make the dough as thin as possible, and cut into squares.
8

If you make the filling while letting the dough rest during Step 4, then fill the skins after they are cut, they'll be very stretchy and easy to handle.
9

Seal both gyoza and wonton dumpling skins tightly around the filling to trap in the meat juices. Since the skins stretch very well, boil or cook just before dinner.