Healthy Vegan Korean Mandu Dumplings Recipe for the kids

Vegan Korean Mandu Dumplings Recipe

These dumplings may be small but they have a big flavour profile. The salty, meaty taste will keep you going back for more! Store in an airtight container in the fridge and place in boiling water just before serving. The dumplings can also be enjoyed in a vegetable broth and freeze well.

Makes: 40 dumplings

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Vegan Korean Mandu Dumplings Recipe

By: Adam Guthrie

These delicious healthy vegan dumplings can be enjoyed in a vegetable broth or soup, making them the perfect Korean recipe for the kids.


Servings

40 dumplings

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • 1 onion, diced
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 3 spring onions, finely sliced
  • 3 cups roughly chopped baby spinach
  • 2 tbsp vegan fish sauce
  • 1 carrot, grated
  • 1 cup diced water chestnuts
  • 1 cup shiitake mushrooms
  • 250g firm tofu, crumbled
  • 2 tbsp mirin
  • 1 packet 20 round gow gee wrappers

  • Dipping Sauce
  • ¼ cup tamari
  • 1 tbsp rice-wine vinegar
  • 1 small red chilli, deseeded & sliced

Method


  • Sauté onion, garlic and spring onions in large frying pan. Deglaze pan with ¼ cup of water. Add spinach and 1 tbsp soy sauce and continue to sauté until the spinach has wilted.
  • Add vegan fish sauce, grated carrot, water chestnut and shitake mushroom, stir well and sauté until mushroom and carrot have wilted. Continue to cook for a few mins, then add tofu and mirin. Stir well and set aside in bowl.
  • Fill small bowl with water. Separate gow gee wrappers and lie 8 out on clean kitchen bench. Add no more than 1 tbsp filling to centre of each wrapper. Dip fingers in water and moisten edges of each wrapper so that, once folded in half, edges stick together to create sealed parcel. Pinch edges together to create scalloped edge.
  • Bring large pot of water to boil and drop in 8 dumplings at a time. The dumplings will float to top and turn translucent after about 2–3 mins.
  • Remove dumplings from water with slotted spoon and place on platter. Mix dipping sauce ingredients in a jar and serve with dumplings.

  

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Adam Guthrie

Adam Guthrie

Adam is a vegan whose passion for food began with a life-threatening illness and continues today in a lifestyle built around healthy cooking and eating. Adam is a qualified chef and wellness coach who specialises in a wholefood, plant-based diet. Adam shares how to prepare delicious, healthy food for health, energy and vitality. He conducts online healthy eating and wellness programs and gives keynote talks, live cooking demonstrations and cooking classes on the subject of healthy eating and living well.

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