Easy Vegetable Dumplings

Vegetable Dumplings on a brown plate on a wooden background with soy sauce and chopsticks in the background.

5 from 3 votes

Easy Vegetable Dumplings

These vegetable dumplings are filled with cabbage, carrots, green onions, and ginger and pan-fried until crispy. This recipe can easily be doubled. Leftovers are great to freeze.

Prep Time20

Cook Time25

Total Time45

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Chinese

Servings: dumplings

Calories: 36kcal

Author: Lauren Skardal

Ingredients

¼ cabbage, diced
2 carrots, grated
¼ package green onions, about 5
1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tbsp vegetable oil
½ tablespoon salt
½ tablespoon sugar
½ teaspoon black pepper
35 dumpling wrappers
½ cup flour

Instructions

Combine the cabbage, carrots, green onions, ginger, soy sauce, vegetable oil, salt, sugar, and black pepper in a large mixing bowl.
To make the dumplings, place about 1 tablespoon of the mixture in the center of a round dumpling wrapper. Lightly brush the outer edge of the wrapper with water. Pick up the wrapper and fold it in half around the filling. Press gently to seal.
Add ½ cup flour to a small-medium bowl and dredge the dumplings to coat in flour.
Add a few tablespoons of vegetable oil or olive oil to a large sauté pan at medium heat. Working in batches, add the floured dumplings to the pan, being careful not to overcrowd the pan. Cook, turning as needed until golden brown and crispy on all sides, about 8-10 minutes per batch.

Notes

Getting Kids Involved: We have made dumplings with our young kids and my nieces and nephews of varying ages many times. I've found that the best way to have kids participate is to hand them a cutting board with 4-6 dumpling wrappers and place the filling in the center of each. Then let them dip their fingers in water to brush the edges of the dumpling wrapper and seal the dumplings using the simple fold method above.

Then I go around and scoop up the assembled dumplings, dust them in flour, and hand each child another set of wrappers with a tablespoon of filling on each.

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