Failsafe varoma chicken dumplings

This recipe is modified from the Varoma Chilli chicken dumpling recipe posted on the forum thermomix site. As soon as my registration is approved I'll post this there!



Ingredients

Dumpling dough.
300g SR flour
100 ml of hot water
3 tbsp canola oil
Cold water, extra - I needed about 60 ml extra!

Add all ingredients to the TM bowl, turn dial to close lid position and knead for 2 min on interval speed.
After 1 min of kneading, check dough. If not coming together to form a ball, add 1 tablespoon of water. Carefully continue to add water until dough forms a ball. If too much water is added and dough becomes sticky, add an extra sprinkle of flour.
Turn out dough onto a floured surface or a silicon baking mat and roll to 1-2 mm thick. Use an egg ring to cut circles of dough. My circles kept shrinking and I had a lot of trouble till I started cutting them on mass and then rolling them larger with the rolling pin immediately before putting mixture in them.

For the last one I rolled mixture into a ball, flattened and then rolled thin. I think next time I would do this instead of cutting all those circles only to have to reroll them out.

Chicken filling
1 half chicken breast roughly chopped
3 spring onions, roughly chopped
1 ripe pear, peeled
1/6th purple cabbage, chopped roughly
1 celery stalk
1 T soy sauce

Place chicken, spring onions, pear, cabbage and celery into TM bowl and turn dial to close lid position. Pulse several times using the turbo button or until meat mixture is smooth.
Add soy sauce and pulse a further 2 times to combine. The mixture went a crazy purple colour!

Place teaspoonfuls of mixture onto dumpling circles. Fold dumpling dough in half to make a pasty shape and press edges with a fork to seal.



Place 500ml water into the TM bowl. Lay dumplings in the Varoma and place into position. Steam for 12-15 min on Varoma temp, speed 1.


The recipe gave the tip of steaming extra mixture as meatballs. This worked beautifully and I did some for Kate with neocate and amaranth mixed in.

Verdict
Made heaps - enough for all of us, very filling and yummy, plus enough for the hubby and Mr 6 for lunch tomorrow.

Next time
Making the circles was a pain - try rice papers???