
Vegan Tofu Dumplings
Cook Time:
1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time:
1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 72 sheets Dumpling wrappers
Filling
- 1/2 cup Edamame thawed
- 2 cups Shiitake sliced
- 400 g Firm Tofu drained and cubed
- 2 cups Red cabbage chopped
- 1/2 Leek sliced
- 2 Tbsp Shio Koji
- 2 Tbsp Leek Miso
- 1 tsp Garlic powder
- 1 Tbsp Sesame seeds
- Black pepper
- Olive oil
To Fry
- 50 ml Water
- 1 tsp Flour
- Sesame oil
Sauce
- 1 Tbsp Ginger Miso
- 1 Tbsp Shoyu Koji
- 1 Tbsp Apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp Chili oil
Instructions
Make the filling
- Prepare the vegetables for the filling accordingly.
- Heat a pan with oil over medium heat. Sauté the leeks until fragrant. Add the tofu and cook until brown. Add the cabbage, shiitake, and edamame and stir fry until the cabbage is slightly soft. Add the sesame seeds.
- Season with the leek miso, shio Koji, garlic powder, and black pepper.
- Leave the mixture until slightly cooled and transfer it to a food processor. Pulse a few times to break down the ingredients until they can hold together.
Assemble and fry
- Wet the edge of the wrapper with water with your finger.
- Place a spoonful of filling in the middle and seal it. Pleating the edge is a common shape for dumplings. Repeat until you’ve used all the wrappers.
- Heat a pan with oil over high heat. While heating, mix the water and flour. Place the dumplings in a circle on the pan and cook for 1 minute until a brown crust forms.
- Add the water mixture into the pan, cover with a lid, and cook them for 4 minutes over medium heat.
- Uncover the lid and cook them over high heat until the liquid is mostly evaporated.
- Add the sesame oil and pan fry them until crispy.
Sauce
Serve with your choice of sauce. This time, we prepared 2 kinds - Ginger Miso and Shoyu Koji sauce. For Shoyu Koji sauce, simply mix all the ingredients together until combined.
Notes
* Instead of pan frying, you can also boil them until the dumplings float to the top.
* You can freeze uncooked / cooked extra dumplings.
* We recommend draining water from Tofu with paper towel and a weight (a water-filled jar on a plate works well) in the fridge overnight to remove excess liquid so that the filling doesn't become too mushy.