How to Wrap a Dumpling CHOW Tip

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Andrea Nguyen demonstrates three ways to fold a dumpling. She starts with the half-moon shape, segues into the pea pod, then finishes with a big hug. • ======================CHOW.com========================= • CHOW Tips are the shared wisdom of our community. If you've figured out some piece of food, drink, or cooking wisdom that the world has to know about, send us a message and tell us what you've got in mind! • See all the newest uploads from CHOW with the Latest Videos playlist: http://bit.ly/owLvNO • Subscribe to CHOW: http://bit.ly/xTzxYj • For more recipes, stories and videos, check out http://www.chow.com/videos • CHOW on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/CHOW • CHOW on Facebook: / chow • ======================================================== • TRANSCRIPT • So there are three basic shapes for making Asian dumplings. The first one is called the Half Moon and is simply the round dumpling wrapper folded in half and sealed and you can use those for practically any single purpose: poaching, pan frying, deep frying, steaming. From the half moon, what you can do is form a little Pea Pod just by simply putting together a few little pleats on the edge. Pea pods are terrific for steaming as well as pan frying because they sit up really nicely in a skillet. And then the other one that you can make, also from a half moon, is a really cute little shape called A Big Hug. What you do is you simply take the two ends and then you bring them together like you're giving yourself a big hug. They're terrific for poaching or steaming because they sit up really nicely.

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