Step 1: Incubate the dough

- Warm milk in the microwave for 30 seconds. Add 2 tsp sugar and stir until dissolved. Then
add active dry yeast and stir gently. Cover and let it rest for 10 minutes or until foam.
- In a mixing bowl, add all-purpose flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, remaining sugar,
vegetable oil, and lime juice. Pour in the yeast. Mix well until smooth. Cover the dough with
plastic wrap or a damp kitchen towel and let rise for 2 hours or until the dough is about
double in size
Step 2: Make the filling
- Boil quail eggs after the eggs are cooked. You take it out and peel it.
- Next, you take the jicama and onions and chop them into small pomegranate seeds. After that,
soak the wood ear fungus in warm water until it expands, and then chop it finely.
- Finally, slice the meat and put it into a puree.
- Once all the ingredients have been prepared, you will marinate the meat. Mix the meat with the
above ingredients, add spices, and wait about 30 minutes for the meat to absorb.
- The meat has been soaked in spices, you take the peeled quail eggs and start making the
filling. You take a piece of meat and flatten it, put a quail egg in the middle, then roll the
meat into a ball.
Step 3: How to make – shape
- When you finish making the filling balls, you take out the dough that has been incubated for
enough time to prepare to shape the cake.
- Divide the dough into equal parts, prepare a piece of parchment paper, and place it on a flat
surface to roll out the dough. When the dough has been rolled out thinly, put the meatball
with quail eggs in the middle and shape the cake into a round shape.
Step 4: Steam until cooked
- Put all the cakes in the steamer for another 10 minutes and then steam.
- While waiting for the dough to rise, put water in the steamer and boil the water. Then steam
the cake for about 20 minutes.
- After the cake is cooked, turn off the stove, wait about 5-7 minutes, then take the cake out
and it's done.
It can be said that dumplings are an unforgettable dish for many generations, a delicious "morning gift",
or "afternoon gift" that meets the nutritional needs, a familiar choice of Vietnamese people. It seems like
it's the same for everyone, the taste of childhood is mingled in the soft, stretchy dumplings, breaking them
in half to get a piece of the sticky crust, looking at the soft, fragrant filling makes you crave it, inhale it
and then enjoy it with great pleasure!