Hi everyone! Today I gonna talk about a little bit the history of dumpling 🥟. From Chineese to Balkans country (Japan, Korea, Russia, Kazakhistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Dagestan,Chechnya, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbeijan, Georgia, Turkey, Bosnian, Albenian, Poland) have characteristic traditional dumpling kinds. Let's we look into differences and types...
When was the first dumpling made?
According to legend, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, there lived a famous physician of Traditional Chinese Medicine, named Zhang Zhongjing, who introduced dumplings. 1,800 years back, the “medical saint” was returning to his ancestral village after a long period of absence. During that winter, the febrile disease was turning into an epidemic. Many poor people and his fellow citizens submitted to the cold weather because of the lack of warm clothes and sufficient food and suffered frostbite, mainly around their ears. Seeing their condition, Zhang was determined to do something to get them rid of the frostbite.
However, dumpling recipes can be found in Ancient Roman texts.
What are traditional dumplings made of?
Kind of Dumpling Dough
🥟Egg, water, flour and salt contain dough. Just like pasta dough that strong unstickty dough.
🥟No egg dough which contains boiled water, salt, flour especially uses to make vegan dumpling.
🥟Yeast dumpling dough which contains dried yeast, water, flour and salt. This type dumpling very common Chineese, Uygur and Tibetian Cuisine.
What can I fill dumplings with?
Kind of Dumpling Filling
🥟 Klassic ground beef, grated onion, blackpepper, salt
🥟 Chopped beef, süet, onion, blackpepper salt, chopped patato and carrot as small pieces.
🥟 Pumpkin, onion, blackpepper, salt, vegatable oil
🥟Patato (raw or mashed), onion, blackpepper salt, vegatable oil
🥟Dead nettle, onion, blackpepper, salt, Vegatable oil
🥟Spinach, onion, blackpepper, salt, vegatable oil
🥟Cabbage, onion, vegatable oil, salt, blackpepper
🥟Mushroom, onion, salt, blackpepper, vegatable oil
🥟Cheese and parsley
🥟 Green Lentil onion, blackpepper, salt vegatable oil. Used in Baked Tray dumpling is shape of gondol common in Turkey Anatolia.
🥟Fish(sea product), onion, blackpepper, salt, oil, soya Souce
🥟Combination of Pumpkin-ground beef, Cabbage-ground beef, Patato- ground beef
🥟As sweet filling; Cherry and sugar, curd and sugar well known as sweet vareniki in Ukraine.
🥟 Chicken mince, chopped onion, puree of garlic and ginger, soy Souce, sesame oil, blackpepper. This type uses to make Japanese Gyoza dumpling
🥟Egg, milk, blackpepper, salt. This filling uses to make Turkmen yumurtga borek.
🥟Omelette, green onions, oil, blackpepper.
How do you make dumplings at home?
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How many types of dumplings are there?
- Turkmen, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazahk Dumpling
- Pelmeni
- Gürze
- Pierogi/Piruhi
- Mandu
- Vareniki
- Chineese Dumpling and khınkali
- Bosnian/Albenian Baked Dumpling
- Xiao Long Bao(Soup Dumpling)
- Chineese Wonton
- Tibetian Momos
- Gyoza
