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Spooky Beet - Lentil and Mushroom Dumplings

Course Main Dish, Side Dish
Cuisine Asian, Vegan
Servings 48 dumplings

Ingredients
  

  • 1 beet peeled
  • 250 grams mushrooms
  • 1/2 napa cabbage*
  • 2 spring onions
  • 1 jar lentils
  • 1/4 tsp coriander ground
  • 1/4 tsp black pepper ground
  • 1/2 tsp cumin ground
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1/4 tsp toasted sesame oil*
  • 1 sheet toasted nori

Instructions
 

Wrappers

  • You can make your own dumpling wrappers (you can find the recipe on my previous post, i'll put a link in this post) or use store bought.

Filling

  • Add the beets to a food processor and pulse a few times until chopped, now add the mushrooms and chop those and finally add the lentils and chop it one last time. After taking out the filling add the cabbage and chop it. If you don't have a food processor you can chop it all by hand.
  • in a pan warm a small amount of coconut oil, or water if you're avoiding oil, on medium heat. Add the filling, spices and soy sauce to the pan and cook over medium heat. After ± 5 minutes add the cabbage and cook for another ± 3 minutes or until most of the moisture is gone.
  • After you've cooked the filling add it to a bowl and add the spring onions and sesame oil and mix until everything's well combined. Now let it cool down before you fill your dumplings.
  • Now add your filling to the centre of your dumpling wrapper, fold it closed and put them on a platter covered with parchment paper (the platter has to fit in the freezer). After filling all the dumplings put the tray in the freezer and freeze the dumplings for about an hour. After an hour you can put them in freezer bags and store them until you're ready to eat them.
  • To steam the dumplings put them in a steamer and let the frozen dumplings steam for about 15 minutes. put a face on them with some toasted seaweed and serve them with some soy sauce.

Toasted Nori

  • you can also make your own toasted nori by covering the shiny part of the sheet with a small amount of oil (i used sesame) just enough for it to hold the spices. I sprinkled some salt and ground chilli flakes on them. Once done cut the sheet in 4 pieces and heat up a cooking pan on medium/low. Place the nori (shiny part down) in the pan and after 20 seconds place the other piece of nori on top the nori in the pan and flip both. Keep adding nori until you've toasted all pieces. and flip them every now and then until they are a bit crisp. Now cut your sheets of nori with some scissors and stick them on the dumplings.

Notes

  • Instead of napa (chinese) cabbage you could use regular cabbage.
  • If you are strict high carb low fat you can skip the sesame oil.