What’s Cooking: Vegan Dumplings

Talia Whyte Food

So the quarantine continues at my house.

Over the last three months, I have learned how to make a lot of great food.  Recently, I started to venture into foods I would usually just buy premade.  I love eating fried dumplings! I order them every time I go to an Asian restaurant.

I realized over the quarantine that it might be cheaper for me to make them from scratch, so I started experiment with some recipes online and created a very tasty treat!

Vegan Dumplings (serves 5)

Ingredients

Wrappers

– Dumpling wrappers – I bought a 40-count package from my local supermarket

Fillings

• 150 g tofu, finely chopped, about 1 cup
• 70 g Chinese chives, finely chopped, about 1 cup
• 6 shiitake mushrooms, finely chopped, about 1/3 cup 
• 50 g carrot, grated, about 1/2 cup
• 1 tbsp scallions, finely chopped
• 1/2 tsp ginger, minced
• 1 tbsp cooking oil
• 1/4 tsp salt, or to taste

Instructions

I got the recipe from this video.  I wasn’t able to get all the ingredients the cook uses and they don’t look like her dumplings, but it still come out good!