Chapter 168 - 167: Wild Vegetable Dumplings
An Ping had bought a pound of meat from the grocery store and had a remainder of one and a half yuan, so he also bought some essentials for the home such as salt, soy sauce, and vinegar.
By the time he got home, An Hao had already cleaned all the wild greens, blanched them in boiling water, and chopped them into stuffing.
The meat An Ping had brought back was pork belly, which he minced into stuffing. An Hao marinated the pork for a while with soy sauce and a water mixture with Sichuan peppercorns and star anise, then she mixed the wild greens with the meat, adding chopped green onions, minced ginger, and a small spoonful of vegetable oil.
The delicious aroma of the stuffing came out immediately, and just by smelling it, An Ping was salivating.
An Hao decided to mix a piece of white dough with warm water, kneaded it into small pieces, and rolled out thin wrappers. She filled them with the fragrant stuffing and pinched them into dumplings with thin skins and generous fillings.
Her movements were so skilled and pleasing to watch that in less than half an hour, she had finished wrapping all of the dough in front of her.
She counted the dumplings, almost a hundred in total, before she finally stopped to pour water into the big iron pot to boil.
An Ping helped with the fire and seeing that she had put all the dumplings into the pot, he couldn’t help but curiously ask her, "Sister, you made so many dumplings. Are you planning not to cook for the next two or three days by cooking them all at once?"