Fried Dumplings

I think most of you already have my fried dumplings recipe. I recently came up with a very good sauce for them, so I thought I'd share the sauce.

First, in case you don't have the fried dumplings recipe, here it is:

2 lb. ground pork
3-4 chopped green onions
3 leaves Chinese cabbage
1½ tsp. garlic
1 tsp. ginger
1 tbsp. sesame oil
2 large mushrooms, finely chopped (optional)
1 egg
1 pinch salt
wonton skins

Mix all ingredients. Form mixture into a small ball and wrap in a wonton skin. Fold the wrapper similar to a diaper. Secure the edges of the wrapper with a small amount of water.

Fry dumplings in a small amount of oil until golden, turning once. Once both sides are golden, add ¼ cup of water and immediately cover the frying pan with a lid. Reduce heat to medium and cook 5-6 minutes. Serve with rice and dumpling sauce or soy sauce.

Here's the sauce:

Mince about a teaspoon of ginger and a couple teeth of garlic. Warm some sesame oil in a saucepan and lightly sauté the ginger and garlic. Before the ginger and garlic burn, but while the heat is still on, add about a cup of low sodium soy sauce. (I found that regular soy sauce is too salty and requires more sugar to balance the salt.) Add a few tablespoons of brown sugar until the sauce is just sweet enough. Remove the sauce from the heat and add some finely chopped green onion and another dash of sesame oil.

If you want to make them spicy (I do), put some chili garlic sauce on your dumplings along with this sauce.