Siomay (Indonesian Dumpling)
Siomay (Indonesian Dumpling)

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, siomay (indonesian dumpling). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Siomay (Indonesian Dumpling) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Siomay (Indonesian Dumpling) is something that I have loved my entire life.

Siomay (Indonesian Steamed Dumpling in Peanut Sauce) was influenced by Chinese Shumai and hence, the name Siomay. The Chinese style looks exactly like Shumai from China with the meat inside the wrapper. It is normally served with sweet and sour sauce on the side.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook siomay (indonesian dumpling) using 25 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Siomay (Indonesian Dumpling):
  1. Get 500 gram pork mince ( or 300g chicken meat, paste + 200g shrimp /
  2. Make ready or mackerel fish, paste )
  3. Get 2 tablespoon shallots, grated
  4. Make ready 2 tablespoon garlic, mashed
  5. Take 1 tablespoon ground white pepper
  6. Get 2 tablespoon sugar
  7. Take 2-3 teaspoon salt
  8. Take 1 tablespoon cooking oil/sesame oil
  9. Prepare 2-3 eggs
  10. Get 300 gram carrot, grated
  11. Get 350 gram tapioca starch
  12. Make ready Wonton skin (you can buy in Asian grocery)
  13. Take 1 medium sized biter melon
  14. Take 1 medium sized cabbage
  15. Prepare 1 large potatoe
  16. Make ready Some hard boiled eggs
  17. Prepare Tofu
  18. Prepare Peanut Sauce:
  19. Take 500 gram roasted peanut
  20. Take 200 gram red chlilies
  21. Prepare 3 garlic
  22. Get 2 tablespoon tamarind juice
  23. Make ready 2 tablespoon salt
  24. Make ready 5-7 tablespoons sugar
  25. Get 1 , 5 liter water

This dish is a complete portion comes with a steamed potato, cabbage, egg. traditional indonesian culinary food. lotek vegetable with peanut sauce. Indonesian Steamed Dumplings with Peanut Sauce (Recipe: Indonesia Eats. A word of siomay itself is derived from shaomai (also spelled shui mai, shu mai, sui mai, sui maai, shui mei, siu mai, shao mai, siew mai or siomai), the traditional Chinese dumpling. Siomay (or Somay) has an ice cream cone shape, except the bottom is flat.

Instructions to make Siomay (Indonesian Dumpling):
  1. In a bowl, combine pork meat (chicken meat and shrimp paste) with shallot, garlic, white pepper, sugar, salt, and cooking oil. I used food processor to combine it. Then add egg and mix well. - Add grated carrot and mix well. Add tapioca starch, mix well. Set aside. - Grease the steamer with small amount of cooking oil to make the dumplings will not sticky when steaming.
  2. Siomay : Take a piece of wonton skin, scoop about 1 tbs of filling, shape it using hands. Repeat until all the wonton skin are used up. Steam for 20 minutes.
  3. Potato : Boiled potatoes until half-cooked then peel the potato's skin. Cut in half and scrape a portion of potato side and fill it with the filling. Steam it. If you want simple way, just boiled it and peel the potato skin without fill it with the feeling.
  4. Tofu : Cut in half and scrape a portion of tofu and fill it with the filling. Steam. You can also just cut in half and directly steam it.
  5. Bitter melon : Cut in several pieces (as your liking). Scrape the seed portion and fill it in with the filling. Steam it.
  6. Cabbage : Cut in several pieces as your liking and steam it. Some people usually make the cabbage roll and fill it with the filling. But I choose simple way, just steam it with fill nothing. - - Egg : hard boiled eggs
  7. Peanut Sauce (Peanut Sambal) : - - Process the peanuts in food processor until smooth. Transfer it into a medium bowl. Set aside. - Process red chilies, garlic and shallots until smooth. - Heat a skillet and add some cooking oil. Stir fry the smooth red chilies, garlic, and shallot until fragrant. Add the ground peanuts, mix well. Pour water, mix it. Add salt, coconut sugar, tamarind juice, mix well. Wait until the sauce become thick then turn off the heat. Set aside.
  8. Serving suggestions: place all dumplings on a plate. Pour some peanut sauce and drizzle over lime juice, sweet soy sauce, and some ground chilies or you can use chili sauce from the store

This kind of dim sum is a popular meal in Indonesia as a street/hawker food. As Indo-Chinese food, the concept of Batagor and Siomay is pretty similar to Chinese dumplings, yet their content is different. The common Batagor and Siomay main ingredient is fish or chicken as halal substitute for pork, and the use of rice wine as seasoning is dropped, since the majority of Indonesian is Muslim. Siomay Bandung is one of my favorite Indonesian street food. I grew up eating plenty of these delicious fish dumplings, especially during my junior and senior high school years in Jakarta.

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