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Sui Kow / Shui Jiao (Chinese Dumpling)

By: 👩‍🦳 Linda · Published: 🖨 March 9, 2010 · Updated: 💻January 1, 2021 · 🗨 8 Comments

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Sui Kow (Chinese Dumplings) are delicious fan shaped dumplings served in broth. They can be deep fried or pan fried as pot stickers.

Delicious Sui Kow (Chinese Dumplings) in broth.

Chinese Dumplings are little parcels of minced meat and vegetable wrapped in a thin piece of dough. They can be round or crescent shaped, boiled, steam or fried. In northern China, they are known as jiaozi and is one of the major foods prepared for the Chinese New Year. Their shape resemble gold ingots which symbolizes wealth. The Cantonese called them gao while the Japanese named them gyoza. The latter is widely used today.

Sui Kow (Water Dumplings)

The method of preparation also distinguishes these dumplings. Shui Jiao or Sui Kow in Cantonese literally means water dumplings. These are boiled and served in a broth. They are shaped more like a fan.

Sui Kow (Chinese Dumplings) in broth.

Crescent/Ingot Shaped Dumplings

The ever popular pot stickers, guoti in North America are pan fried and then steamed. Jiaozi may be steamed or deep fried. Both guoti and jiaozi have the more traditional crescent or ingot like shape.
Deep fried and pan fried Sui Kow (Chinese Dumplings).

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Delicious Sui Kow (Chinese Dumplings) in broth.
5 from 2 votes

Sui Kow (Chinese Dumpling)

Sui Kow (Chinese Dumplings) are delicious fan shaped dumplings served in broth. They can also be deep fried or pan fried and steamed as pot stickers.
Author : Linda Ooi
Course : Appetizer
Cuisine : Chinese
Keyword : chinese dumplings, guoti, gyoza, jiaozi, potstickers, sui kow
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Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 40 mins
Servings : 10
Calories : 181kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 30 round sui kow or pot sticker wrappers
  • 10 stalks choy sum / yu choy or baby bok choy (trimmed)
  • 8 cups chicken stock for soup (seasoned to taste) (1.9)
  • 2 green onions (thinly sliced)
  • A few drops sesame oil
  • Dumpling sauce or soy sauce

Filling

  • 6 oz lean ground pork (170g)
  • 4 oz shrimp (minced) (115g)
  • 4 water chestnuts (peeled and chopped)
  • 2 Chinese mushrooms (soaked, rinsed, and chopped)
  • 2 Chinese chives (finely sliced)
  • 1 tbsp Shao Hsing cooking wine
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • ½ tsp ground pepper
  • 1 tsp sesame oil

Instructions
 

  • Mix all filling ingredients in a bowl. Allow it to marinate for 30 minutes.
  • Place one pot sticker wrapper on palm. Spoon 1 teaspoon filling in the center of the wrapper. Moisten wrapper around the edges with a finger dipped in water.
  • Fold wrapper into a half circle. Fold 6 to 7 pleats around the edge of the wrapper from one end to the other. Press to seal.
  • Place dumplings in a single layer on a flat plate.
  • Bring 8 cups (1.9 liters) of water in a pot to boil. Lightly scald choy sum. Remove, drain, and set aside.
  • Gently drop about half the dumplings into the pot. Reduce heat to medium and allow them to simmer for about 3 minutes. Cooked dumplings will float to the top. Remove and drain dumplings.
  • Place 1 stalk of choy sum and 3 dumplings in a bowl. Ladle some soup onto dumplings. Add some sliced green onions and a few drops of sesame oil to the soup. Serve hot with dumpling or soy sauce.
  • Alternatively, dumplings can be deep fried in hot oil until golden brown.
  • Another method is to pan fry and steam the dumplings. For this method, it is best to wrap dumpling in the more traditional crescent or ingot like shape.
  • Place one pot sticker wrapper on palm. Spoon 1 teaspoon filling in the center of the wrapper. Moisten wrapper around the edges with a finger dipped in water. Fold wrapper into a half circle. Fold 5 to 6 pleats around the edge of the wrapper from the center to the edge on one side. Do the same in reverse for the other side. Press to seal and shape into crescent.
  • Place dumplings in a single layer on a flat plate.
  • Heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil in a large non-stick fry pan. Place half the dumplings in a single layer in the pan. Brown bottom and sides. Add ½ cup (120ml) water to pan and cover with lid. Steam fried dumplings until water has evaporated. Continue to fry until bottom is crisp. Repeat with the other half of dumplings.
  • Remove and serve immediately with dumpling sauce.

Nutrition

Calories: 181kcal
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Appetizer of Finger Food

One can never make enough of these delicious dumplings. They are wonderful served in broth as an appetizer with dumpling sauce or deep fried as finger food with Lingham’s Hot Sauce. I hope you will give them a try as they are easy to prepare using store bought sui kow or pot sticker wrappers.

Deep fried and pan fried Sui Kow (Chinese Dumplings).

NOTE: This post was updated on September 3rd, 2014 with new pictures.

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  1. Mother Rimmy says

    March 9, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    5 stars
    Another terrific recipe, and as usual, beautiful pictures. I love the history behind this dish.

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  2. krissy @ the food addicts says

    March 10, 2010 at 12:39 am

    ooh – looks like i will be making some dumplings in the near future. i can be creative with the filling, and i like how i can eat it soft in soup, or crunchy by browning it in a pan. personally, i love snacking on dumplings with some chili soy sauce.

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  3. Anncoo says

    March 10, 2010 at 1:36 am

    I love "sui kow" especially with egg noodle.

    Reply
  4. Table Talk says

    March 9, 2010 at 9:55 pm

    5 stars
    Everything you need to know about dumplings is right here in this post! Nice photos–I love the shot of the uncooked dumplings all fanned out.

    Reply
  5. DongXing says

    March 10, 2010 at 9:57 am

    Biren, the dumplings look very nice. You have just given me a tip on how to pleat it to make it look even nicer for presentation. Just the very thing I would like for lunch on a cold, windy and overcast day to cheer me up – do you do delivery?

    Reply
  6. Biren says

    March 10, 2010 at 2:35 pm

    Mother Rimmy – Thanks! Glad you enjoy the little write-up 🙂

    Table Talk – There are so many names for these delightful dumplings that it can be confusing. I like that shot too!

    krissy@the food addicts – They are nice and soft in the soup and it is terrific with chili soy sauce. Thanks for visiting and hope you return often.

    Anncoo – Sui kow with noodles are delicious!

    DongXing – Thanks! It was fun to make and even better to eat 🙂

    Reply
  7. tigerfish says

    March 11, 2010 at 10:02 am

    I like the pleats on your dumplings. I usually make wontons.

    Reply
  8. Biren says

    March 11, 2010 at 1:32 pm

    tigerfish – Thanks! Wontons are good too.

    Reply

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