Gyoza part I - making your own

We love eating gyoza, but -we will admit- up until now we would just buy ready made packages in the supermarket so we only needed spend a little time preparing them. But, since we like gyoza so much, we figured we should also try making them completely ourselves. And it was a big success! They tasted sooo much better than the store-bought ones, we even got to love eating gyoza even more :)

Home made gyoza

 So, this time we want to share our favourite recipe for gyoza. And also, in part II of this update, we will share the best way to prepare gyoza (home-made or store-bought), so you can enjoy them to the fullest.

Ingredients (makes 30 gyoza):

• 200 gr ground pork
• 1/4 cabbage
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• clove of garlic
• grated fresh ginger
• pinch of salt
• 30 gyoza wrappers

(Optional) equipment:

• Gyoza mold (used to fold the gyoza)

Our gyoza mold

 We sometimes end up having to much filling to put in all in the gyoza. But, not to worry, it makes also for delicious meat balls you can enjoy the day after. On another note, you can make gyoza without the gyoza mold, just use your hands the fold the gyoza together en push to let it stick. Maybe it will not look perfectly, but it's the taste that counts of course!

Cut the cabbage in small pieces, boil for a couple of minutes, and make sure all excess water is removed.

boiling the cabbage

 Then, in a bowl, mix the ground pork together with the garlic, ginger, salt, soya sauce. At last add the cabbage to the mixture and mix. 

gyoza filling all mixed together

 Take the gyoza mold, and put a gyoza wrapper on top. Place a spoonful of filling in the wrapper, and close to mold to seal the gyoza.

spoonful of filling...

...put into the wrapper...

...and closed to seal the gyoza

Repeat this process 30 times, for 30 delicious gyoza

all 30 gyoza filled

For more clarification see our instructional-video: