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Mandu Korean Dumplings
You can absolutely make juicy and flavorful mandu, or Korean dumplings, at home. And it's a lot easier than you may think! Let me show you with step-by-step instructions and different cooking methods.
Course Appetizer
Cuisine Asian
Prep Time 1 hour hour
Cook Time 30 minutes minutes
Servings 40
Calories 60 kcal
1 pound ground meat, see note 1 cup mungbean sprouts, cooked and roughly chopped ½ pack firm or medium-firm tofu ½ med onion, finely diced 1 tablespoon minced garlic 1 egg ¼ cup chopped green onion ½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 60 Dumpling skins Dipping sauce Low-sodium soy sauce and vinegar 3:1 ratio A thin slice of garlic Red pepper flakes optional
Boil bean sprouts hot water for about 5 minutes. Remove and transfer to ice bath.
Using a kitchen towel, squeeze all the water out from the sprouts. Run the knife through for a coarse chop. *
Similarly, squeeze all the water out from the tofu and crumble into small pieces.*
In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients together. Mix well!
Place a wonton skin in the palm of your hand. Brush the edges of the skin with water. Place a spoonful of filling in the middle. DO NOT OVERSTUFF!
Fold skin in half over the filling and press the edges together FIRMLY to seal!
Repeat with rest of skins.
Pour 2 Tbs of EVOO into a medium-sized skillet over med-high heat. Cook about 8 dumplings at a time, approx 3 minutes on each side or until browned.
Pour about 3 Tbs of water to skillet and cover with a lid immediately as oil will spatter
Cook for additional 2 min.
Enjoy! Don't forget the dipping sauce!
It doesn't always come out to be 40 dumplings. sometimes more sometimes less. I say have at least 60 skins on hand, just in case.
Be sure to squeeze out as much water as possible! This helps maintain a compact filling as well as reduce splatter from excess water hitting the oil.
Pan frying the dumplings allows for crispy skin while the addition of water steams the filling. Also by using this method, less oil will be needed.
Calories: 60 kcal | Carbohydrates: 7 g | Protein: 4 g | Fat: 2 g