Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Nyonya Rice Dumpling

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The ingredients needed to make Nyonya Rice Dumpling:

1. Get Prepared The Night Before:
2. Take 10 g Organic Blue Pea Flowers,
3. Make ready 500 g Glutinous White Rice,
4. Get 800 g Chicken Stock Room Temperature,
5. Prepare Pinch Sea Salt,
6. Prepare Pinch White Pepper,
7. Prepare 40 g Chinese Dried Mushrooms,
8. Take 30 g Dried Scallops,
9. Make ready 10 g Dried Shrimps,
10. Get 500 g Chicken Thigh Skinless Boneless Finely Diced,
11. Make ready 1/2 TBSP Kecap Manis,
12. Prepare 2 TBSP Light Soy Sauce,
13. Get 2 TBSP Shao Xing Wine / Hua Tiao Wine,
14. Make ready Pinch Dried Mushroom Powder.
15. Make ready 12 Dried Bamboo Leaves,
16. Take Dumplings:
17. Make ready Sesame Oil, For Stir-Frying
18. Get 1/2 Inch Ginger Finely Minced,
19. Make ready Scallions Finely Chopped, A Handful + More For Garnishing
20. Prepare Pinch Sea Salt,
21. Get Pinch White Pepper,
22. Prepare 10 Shallots Finely Minced,
23. Make ready 6 Cloves Garlic Finely Minced,
24. Prepare 3 TBSP Coriander Powder,
25. Make ready Bull Head Brand Chinese BBQ Sauce, 3 TBSP
26. Take 1 TBSP Galangal Finely Grated,
27. Get 150 g Candied Winter Melon Finely Diced,
28. Make ready 1 Handful Pandan Leaves,

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Instructions to make Nyonya Rice Dumpling:

1. Prepare the night before. - - In a large bowl, add blue pea flowers and 800g of warm water. - - Set aside to cool and allow the flowers to dye the water with a shade of blue. - - Drain and discard the flowers, keeping the wonderful blue colored water. - - Wash the glutinous rice under running water and drain.
2. Keep washing and draining for about 5 times. - - Add half of the rice into the blue colored water. - - Season with salt and pepper. - - Stir to combine well and set aside overnight.
3. Transfer the other half of the rice into another large bowl. - - Add in chicken stock, mushrooms, scallops, shrimps, salt and pepper. - - Stir to combine well and set aside overnight. - - In another bowl, add chicken, kecap manis, soy sauce, wine, salt, pepper and mushroom powder. - - Stir to coat the chicken well. - - Cover with cling film and marinate in the fridge overnight.
4. Prepare the dumplings. - - The next day, the mushroom and scallops should have hydrated. - - Fish them out. Finely dice the mushroom and shred the scallops by simply pulling them apart.
5. Drain the blue colored rice and discard the water. - - Drain the other bowl of rice, keeping the water. - - You will need the water at a later stage.
6. In a skillet over medium heat, add sesame oil. - - Once the oil is heated up, add in mushrooms. - - Saute until the mushrooms start to caramelize. - - Drizzle in some of that rice water. - - Add in ginger and saute until aromatic.
7. Add in scallions, season with salt and pepper, saute until well combined. - - Remove from heat and set aside. - - In the same skillet over medium heat, add sesame oil. - - Once the oil is heated up, add in shallots. - - Saute until translucent.
8. Add in garlic and saute until aromatic. - - Add in coriander powder and saute until well combined. - - Drizzle in some of that rice water to deglaze. - - Add in galangal, BBQ sauce and shredded scallops.
9. Saute until well combined. - - Deglaze with some of that rice water. - - Season with salt and pepper. - - Lastly, add in the wintermelon. - - Give it a final saute, remove from heat and set aside.
10. I am doing an open-faced concept as shown in the photos. You can choose to wrap the rice and fillings up into pyramid-shaped dumplings if desired. I will include the steps for both concepts.*
11. Open-faced concept: - - I am using an electric double-decker steamer. You can use 2 decks of bamboo steamers and steam in a wok over medium heat with water. You will need to do in batches if your bamboo steamers are small. - - Wipe the bamboo leaves clean with a kitchen towel.
12. Lay bamboo leaves on the steamer. - - Lay some pandan leaves over the bamboo leaves. - - Spoon in the glutinous rice, white and blue separating from one another, over the top. - - Tied 2 knots of pandan leaves and place them on top of the rice. - - This is your bottom deck.
13. Cover and steam for 40 mins. - - Spoon the chicken and mushroom over another deck of steamer. - - Spreading out evenly. - - Place this deck over the rice deck. - - Steam together for another 30 mins or until the rice is fully cooked.
14. I did it this way so that the flavors of the chicken and mushrooms will infuse the rice and vice versa. I cook the rice 1st cos the rice takes longer time to cook.*
15. Remove from heat and transfer onto serving plate. - - Garnish with scallions and serve immediately. - - If you want the same presentation as shown in the photos, place the white rice into a 4-inch pastry ring. Spoon the chicken and mushroom over the rice. Lastly, blue rice. Using the back of a spoon to compact at every layer. Garnish with some scallions.
16. Wrapped concept: - - Clean and wipe the bamboo leaves with a kitchen towel. - - Bring a large heavy pot of water to a rolling boil. - - Take 2 bamboo leaves, one on top of the other, take the halfway point, fold and form it into a cone shape.
17. Add a scoop of the white rice into the cone. - - Pack it down firmly. - - Add 2 spoonfuls of the chicken and mushrooms. - - Add a scoop of blue rice on top. - - Pack it down firmly.
18. Fold the leaves down and form a pyramid shape. - - Tie the dumplings tightly with hemp strings. - - It takes a few practices until you get it right. Most importantly is to the tie the dumplings tightly.
19. Repeat the process for the remaining dumplings. - - Add the dumplings into the boiling water. - - Cover and boil for about 2.5 hours.
20. At the 2 hours mark, remove one of the dumplings, unwrap and test if it is cooked. - - If it is cooked, remove from heat, place in a wire cooling rack to drain off excess water and cool down. - - If it is not yet cooked, continue cooking for another hour and check again, - - When it is cool enuff to handle, unwrap and serve.

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