![]() ![]() You can also use reusable silicone steamer basket liners or reusable cotton liners in your steamer baskets. To steam the har gow, I use bamboo steamers with parchment paper liners. You could also use the side of a cleaver, the bottom of a heavy (flat-bottomed) plate or skillet, a rolling pin, or some other heavy object to achieve the same result. Using this handy tool, I was able to get perfectly uniform, thin wrappers. Especially since I happen to have a cast-iron tortilla press because I love making my own corn tortillas. In Classic Deem Sum, the authors nonchalantly recommend a tortilla press for forming your har gow wrappers. It’s by the people behind my all-time most favorite dim sum restaurant, Yank Sing. I have this old dim sum cookbook, published in the 1980s. While I was developing this recipe, I was reading all sorts of shrimp dumpling recipes, both online and in cookbooks. If you don’t have dumpling flour, you can substitute wheat starch and tapioca starch in a 2:1 ratio (1 cup wheat starch and ½ cup tapioca starch.) Cornstarch or potato starch can also be substituted for tapioca starch. It is a mix of wheat starch and tapioca flour. I went to the Asian supermarket in search of wheat starch, but came across this Dumpling Flour, also called Hagou Flour. Researching shrimp dumpling recipes, I found that most called for a combination of wheat starch and either tapioca starch or cornstarch. What is the trick to making har gow wrappers at home? ![]() Any neutral-flavored cooking oil is fine-peanut, corn, canola, etc.)
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