Easy Homemade Pot Stickers

It’s official. These Easy Homemade Pot Stickers are the new favorite dinner at our house. I can hide whatever veggies I want in them. Because they are pot stickers, my Chinese food-loving children will eat them not only without complaining but with the happiest faces you’ve ever seen in your life. If you like this recipe, you will love my Korean Beef Bowls.

The pot stickers themselves are super fun to make and a great dinner for the kids to help with. My seven-year-old was my sidekick with these, and he loved sealing them up. (All you need is a little water to seal the edges.)

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Almost a year ago, I met a woman on an airplane, and she told me I should make these pot stickers; that they are every mother’s secret weapon. Well, it took me almost a year to finally do it. To be honest, I was a little intimidated. I thought they were going to be hard, and I wasn’t sure if I needed to cook the meat before putting the filling in.

Well, now that I finally got brave and made them, I can’t stop. They are SO EASY! You don’t have to cook the filling before filling the wrappers. “Hip, hip hooray! They can be made start to finish in thirty minutes or less!” Put some rice in the rice cooker before you start and Ta-Da, dinner is served!

Every time I make the pot stickers, I freeze 12 uncooked to keep on hand for busy nights.

how to make easy homemade pot sticker

• In a large bowl, combine ground meat, grated carrot, grated zucchini, finely chopped green onions, sweet chili sauce, soy sauce, ginger, salt, and black pepper. Mix together thoroughly by hand.
• Place about 1 1/2 tbsp of mixture on half of each wonton wrapper.

• Dip your finger in water and moisten 1 edge of a wonton wrapper. Fold it over and pinch the wonton wrapper shut. Make a few folds along the edge and pinch them to give them the pot sticker look.
• Repeat for all 36 wonton wrappers.

• In a large frying pan with a lid, heat the 3 tbsp of oil. Place a layer of pot stickers in the pan and cook for 1-2 minutes until browned on that side.

• Flip pot stickers over and add 1/2 cup of water. Put the lid on the frying pan immediately. This steams the pot stickers. Leave the lid on for 5-7 minutes. Watch to see if water starts to evaporate. If it does, add a little more water.
• Repeat the cooking process for the rest of the pot stickers. Depending on how large the frying pan is, you may need to do two or three batches.
• For the dipping sauce, I mix half soy sauce half sweet chili sauce.
• Serve hot with dipping sauce. 

Tips for making Easy Homemade Pot Stickers

• Use a food processor to finely chop the carrots, zucchini, and onions. They will be unrecognizable to kids who are super picky eaters. 🙂
• When placing the mixture on the wonton wrappers, use a small cookie scoop that measures 1 1/2 tablespoons.
• If you make pot stickers often, you can invest in a dumpling mold maker to make the preparation go faster.
• When cooking the pot stickers and after placing the lid on the frying pan, shake the pan back and forth every once in a while to make sure none of the pot stickers are sticking to the pan.
• If you don’t want to cook the pot stickers all at once, freeze them in an airtight freezer Ziploc bag for up to 2 months. First, lay them out in a single layer on a cookie sheet. Then, when they are completely frozen, place them in the Ziploc bag. Using this freezing method keeps them from sticking together.
• When cooking frozen pot stickers, extend the steaming time by 3-4 minutes.

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Easy Homemade Pot Stickers

 

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Prep time

15 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

25 mins

 

Full of awesome flavor, these delicious Pot Stickers can be easily customized to fit your family's taste. Fast and easy to throw together. You can even freeze them to cook up at another time.

Author: Maria

Recipe type: Pot Stickers

Cuisine: Asian

Serves: 36

Ingredients

• 1 pkg pot sticker wrappers (36 count)
• 1 lb ground beef, pork, chicken, or turkey
• 1 large carrot, grated or finely chopped in a food processor
• ½ small zucchini, grated or finely chopped in a food processor
• 3 green onions, finely chopped
• 3 tbsp sweet chili sauce
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• ½ tsp ginger, scant
• ⅛ tsp ground black pepper and ⅛ tsp salt
• 3 tbsp canola or vegetable oil
• ½-3/4 cup water
• DIPPING SAUCE
• Soy sauce
• Sweet chili sauce

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, combine ground meat, grated carrot, grated zucchini, finely chopped green onions, sweet chili sauce, soy sauce, ginger, salt, and black pepper. Mix together thoroughly by hand.
2. Place about 1½ tbsp of mixture on half of each wonton wrapper.
3. Dip your finger in water and moisten 1 edge of a wonton wrapper. Fold it over and pinch the wonton wrapper shut. Make a few folds along the edge and pinch them to give them the pot sticker look. Repeat for all 36 wonton wrappers.
4. In a large frying pan with a lid, heat the 3 tbsp of oil. Place a layer of pot stickers in the pan and cook for 1-2 minutes until browned on that side.
5. Flip pot stickers over and add ½ cup of water. Put the lid on the frying pan immediately. This steams the pot stickers. Leave the lid on for 5-7 minutes. Watch to see if water starts to evaporate. If it does, add a little more water.
6. Repeat cooking process for the rest of the pot stickers. Depending on how large the frying pan is, you may need to do two or three batches.
7. For the dipping sauce, I mix half soy sauce half sweet chili sauce.
8. Serve hot with dipping sauce.

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