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208 recipes
Crisp-bottomed store-bought gyoza served over garlicky labneh with wilted kale, warm spiced chile butter, toasted pine nuts and mint.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-13969 · Hand-built original
A whisked soy, rice vinegar and sesame dipping sauce with garlic, ginger and sriracha, finished with sesame seeds and green onion.
Main ingredient: rice
Pairs well with: fried rice, spring rolls, bok choy, hot and sour soup
HB-11649 · Hand-built original
Har Gow (Dim Sum Shrimp Dumplings) is a Chinese dim sum built around shrimp. It takes 80 min in total and serves 6. It pairs well with garlic bread and rice.
Main ingredient: shrimp
Pairs well with: garlic bread, rice, grits, lemon wedges, col slaw
HB-1082 · Hand-built original
A chicken and vegetable soup in coconut milk broth, simmered with flour-dusted biscuit pieces as dumplings.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-11700 · Hand-built original
Steamed rice flour sheets rolled around marinated prawns and green onion, served with a sweetened soy, oyster and sesame sauce.
Main ingredient: shrimp
Pairs well with: garlic bread, rice, grits, lemon wedges, col slaw
HB-10796 · Hand-built original
Hand-rolled wrappers around a juicy pork and prawn filling with spiced infused water, boiled in batches and served with black vinegar and chilli oil.
Main ingredient: pork
Pairs well with: applesauce, roasted sweet potatoes, coleslaw, cornbread, braised cabbage
HB-14065 · Hand-built original
Bite-size dumplings come out of the air fryer crisp, then get rolled through warm honey butter with a fleck of parsley. The coating is sweet, salty and glossy in equal measure.
Main ingredient: dumplings
Pairs well with: pickled radish, beer, cola, tteokbokki
HB-17085 · Hand-built original
Boiled dumplings served in their cooking water with a hot-oil sauce of garlic, green onion, chili flakes and sesame seeds, sharpened with black vinegar and soy sauce.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-10816 · Hand-built original
A pressure-cooked chicken stew with celery, carrots and green beans, using packaged potato gnocchi as the dumplings and finished with parsley and cider vinegar.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-14153 · Hand-built original
Wonton wrappers baked in a muffin tin and filled with a cream cheese, cheddar, bacon and jalapeño mixture, topped with cheddar and a jalapeño slice.
Main ingredient: cheese
HB-10355 · Hand-built original
Wonton wrappers baked into cups in a muffin tin and filled with a cream cheese, cheddar, mozzarella and jalapeño mixture.
Main ingredient: cheese
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans
HB-11752 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: all-purpose flour
HB-1194 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: flour
HB-1200 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: flour
HB-1202 · Hand-built original
Pork and garlic chive gyoza with salted cabbage folded into the filling, pleated into wrappers and cooked potsticker style — fried, steamed under a lid, then fried again as the water evaporates. Soy sauce, rice wine vinegar and chili oil are mixed at the table for dipping.
Main ingredient: pork
Pairs well with: applesauce, roasted sweet potatoes, coleslaw, cornbread, braised cabbage
HB-7366 · Hand-built original
A must-order dim sum dish, jiān duī (煎堆), also known as má qiú (麻球) or sesame balls, are fried spheres of mochi-like dough that are often filled with a sweet paste. They’re crunchy on the outside and soft and gooey on the inside, with the characteristic “QQ” chewy texture of a dough made with glutinous rice flour. These are the perfect project for celebrating the Lunar New Year; because they expand in size without the help of yeast or leaveners, they symbolize luck and prosperity. In this recipe, a roux-like paste (similar to tangzhong) helps produce an elastic dough that won’t burst during fr
Main ingredient: rice
HB-1228 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: bread
HB-1251 · Hand-built original
Pan-fried Korean dumplings of pork, beef, tofu and cabbage with a soy, vinegar and chilli dipping sauce.
Main ingredient: pork
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-3605 · Hand-built original
Iraqi semolina dumplings filled with beef and dried lime, simmered in a tomato and okra stew.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-3608 · Hand-built original
Spiced lamb mince is wrapped in fresh flour and semolina pasta, deep-fried until crisp, dipped in a reduced date and lamb jus and plated over garlic yoghurt with buttered pine nuts.
Main ingredient: lamb
Pairs well with: mint sauce, roasted potatoes, couscous, ratatouille, tzatziki
HB-7441 · Hand-built original
Lamb meatballs wrapped in matzo dough, simmered in an artichoke and chicken stock soup with celeriac, peas and dill.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-14303 · Hand-built original
Make authentic Lithuanian cepelinai: potato dumplings filled with pork and served with bacon, onion, and sour cream sauce.
Main ingredient: pork
Pairs well with: applesauce, roasted sweet potatoes, coleslaw, cornbread, braised cabbage
HB-1371 · Hand-built original
Small Qatari fried dumplings flavoured with cardamom, soaked in a saffron sugar syrup.
Main ingredient: flour
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-3631 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: sugar
HB-1399 · Hand-built original
Malfatti (Italian Spinach Ricotta Dumplings in Napoli Sauce) is an Italian mains built around egg. Ready in 70 min.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-1418 · Hand-built original
Fluffy steamed buns filled with sweet barbecued pork — Hawaii's manapua.
Main ingredient: pork
Pairs well with: tea, soup, pickles
HB-5865 · Hand-built original
Luminously orange, topped with evaporated milk, and light as a feather, mango pudding is a star of the dim sum dessert trolley for good reason.
Main ingredient: mango
HB-1434 · Hand-built original
A smoked fish stew in the style of a chowder meets a fish pie, with butternut squash, rutabaga and potatoes simmered in white wine, tomatoes and vegetable broth. Parmesan and dill dumplings are steamed on top of the stew under a lid.
Main ingredient: trout
HB-7548 · Hand-built original
Small Armenian baked meat dumplings in a boat shape, finished with tomato sauce and a chilli garlic oil.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-3644 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: lamb
Pairs well with: mint sauce, roasted potatoes, couscous, ratatouille, tzatziki
HB-1439 · Hand-built original
Lean beef mince simmered with onion, celery, carrots, tomatoes and red wine, topped with parsley suet dumplings that steam under a lid until risen and cooked through.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-7617 · Hand-built original
Crisp baked wonton cups filled with cinnamon-spiced apple pie filling and topped with softly whipped cream.
Main ingredient: wrappers
Pairs well with: coffee, vanilla ice cream, fresh berries, whipped cream
HB-14524 · Hand-built original
Buuz (pronounced with a long "oh" sound) are distinctive Mongolian dumplings characterized by their round shape and small opening at the top.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-1514 · Hand-built original
Crisp deep-fried spring rolls filled with shiitake mushrooms, mung bean noodles, beansprouts, cabbage, and carrot.
Main ingredient: mushroom
Pairs well with: fried rice, spring rolls, bok choy, hot and sour soup
HB-14578 · Hand-built original
A mushroom stroganoff built on rehydrated shiitakes and fresh mushrooms, loosened with mirin, soy, and fish sauce and finished with sour cream, served over wonton noodles.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-14582 · Hand-built original
Dumplings made without folding, by laying each wrapper over a mound of seasoned pork filling like a blanket, then steaming and crisping the bottoms in a pan.
Main ingredient: pork
Pairs well with: applesauce, roasted sweet potatoes, coleslaw, cornbread, braised cabbage
HB-7716 · Hand-built original
Ground chicken dumpling filling scooped straight into a hot skillet and capped with wonton wrappers, steamed in the pan and served with a soy, rice vinegar and sriracha dipping sauce.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-12299 · Hand-built original
Open-faced chicken dumplings seared under wonton wrappers and steam-crisped, with a chili soy drizzle.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-4802 · Hand-built original
Minced shrimp balls seared in a skillet, wrapped in softened rice paper in the pan and steamed until the bottoms crisp, with a tamari and rice vinegar dipping sauce.
Main ingredient: shrimp
Pairs well with: garlic bread, rice, grits, lemon wedges, col slaw
HB-12300 · Hand-built original
Make Kyrgyz orromo, a steamed rolled dumpling filled with lamb, onion, pumpkin, cumin, and served with tangy kurut sauce.
Main ingredient: lamb
Pairs well with: mint sauce, roasted potatoes, couscous, ratatouille, tzatziki
HB-1608 · Hand-built original
Two-tone dumplings — white dough wrapped in spinach-green dough — filled with bok choy, shiitake mushrooms, soy curls or tofu, carrot and scallions, pan-fried and steamed in the pan.
Main ingredient: tofu
Pairs well with: steamed rice, stir-fried vegetables, miso soup, edamame, pickled cucumber
HB-9557 · Hand-built original
Rice cakes, dumplings, and shiitake mushrooms simmered in broth and finished with a generous spoon of perilla seed powder and perilla oil. Thread chili tops the bowl with a thread of color.
Main ingredient: perilla seed powder
Pairs well with: kimchi, steamed rice, pickled radish, seasoned bean sprouts
HB-16163 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: butter
HB-1744 · Hand-built original
Polish dumplings with a cheesy mashed potato filling, boiled in batches and tossed in golden onion butter, served with sour cream.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-7904 · Hand-built original
Ground pork dumplings filled with Chinese chives, garlic, ginger, soy sauce and shaoxing wine, pleated into crescents and either pan-fried and steamed or steamed plain.
Main ingredient: pork
Pairs well with: applesauce, roasted sweet potatoes, coleslaw, cornbread, braised cabbage
HB-10417 · Hand-built original
Fifty dumplings filled with ground pork, chopped chives, ginger and oyster sauce, sealed by hand and boiled until they float, with black vinegar and chili oil for dipping.
Main ingredient: pork
Pairs well with: applesauce, roasted sweet potatoes, coleslaw, cornbread, braised cabbage
HB-10937 · Hand-built original
Juicy pork and kimchi dumplings with crisp, lacy bottoms from a steam-fry finish, plus a black vinegar and soy dipping sauce spiked with gochugaru. Fifty dumplings sounds like a lot until they hit the table.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-18369 · Hand-built original
Wontons filled with a hand-mixed shrimp and ground pork paste seasoned with scallion, ginger, sesame oil and shaoxing wine, simmered until they float.
Main ingredient: shrimp
Pairs well with: garlic bread, rice, grits, lemon wedges, col slaw
HB-10418 · Hand-built original
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