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Spring gyoza

Prep Time1 hour
Cook Time7 minutes
Socking mushrooms overninght8 hours
Course: Appetizer, Side Dish
Cuisine: Japanese
Keyword: mushrooms, spring
Servings: 2 people

Equipment

  • 1 Knife
  • 1 cutting board
  • 1 Food processor
  • 1 Flat pan with a lid
  • 1 pot

Ingredients

  • 20 grams Dried mushrooms boletus or morels
  • 10 leaves Wild garlic
  • 10 leaves Arugula
  • 10 leaves Rapeseed kale
  • 10 leaves Narrow-leaf plantain
  • 1 tbsp Wild garlic seeds
  • 5 cm Ginger
  • 12 Gyoza wraps
  • 1 tbsp Sesame oil
  • 1 tbsp Japanese soya sauce
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • ½ tsp Pepper
  • oil for frying

Instructions

  • Soak mushrooms in cold water overnight.
  • Next day, bring the water with the soaked mushroom to a boil and cook for around 40 minutes.
  • In the meantime, wash greens (narrow-leaf plantain, arugula, wild garlic, rapeseed kale) and wild garlic seeds.
  • Cut narrow-leaf plantain into strips and chop arugula, wild garlic, rapeseed kale.
  • Heat oil in a frying pan and fry narrow-leaf plantain and rapeseed kale for 5 minutes.
  • Once cooked, drain the mushrooms (do not discard the liquid, you can use it for other recipes).
  • Put mushrooms into a food processor together with wild garlic (seeds and leaves), arugula, and ginger.
  • Add sesame oil and soy sauce, and blend into a smooth consistency.
  • Mixed mushroom mixture with fried greens, season with salt and pepper.
  • Fold gyozas.

Frying gyozas

  • Heat oil in a frying pan and put gyozas flat surface down.
  • Fry them for 30 seconds.
  • Pour cold water into the pan and cover it with a lid.
  • Steam-fry for another 5 to 6 minutes.

Notes

You can use any dried mushrooms you have and like. We used boletus and morels in a ratio of 1:1.