韭菜餜 gucai guê

I have decided to make Dioziu gucai guê 潮洲韭菜餜 today.  So I went to the garden to harvest some gucai.  

Fresh gucai from the garden

Prepare the filling

Slice the gucai finely, season it with salt and ground white pepper and add a little oil.

Finely sliced gucai seasoned with salt and ground white pepper and a little oil - I use olive oil

Making the wrapper:

If you like the texture of bhi2ce5 米糍 then this recipe is for you.

For every 100 grams of zug8 bhi2 coi3 秫米粞, you use 80 ml of water and a little salt to taste.  Mix it to a dough and then you can either steam or microwave the dough until cook, kneading in between steaming or microwaving, until you get a stable dough which you can use to wrap the gucai guê.

You can mix different types of rice flours too.  If you want a firmer texture, you can use part glutinous flour and part rice flour.  If you want a bhi'ce texture - lovely and soft - one which you can stretch, then you use only glutinous rice flour.  

I am too lazy today and I microwave the dough on medium heat for 20 seconds each time and then knead.  I continue this process a number of times until I get a dough which I can manipulate and the dough does not break when I knead and handle.  I then make a long roll and cut into six equal size pieces.  For every 100 grams of flour, 80 ml of water, I can cut into six equal size pieces.

Put the equal size pieces of dough in a closed container or a plastic bag to stop the dough drying out.

Flatten each piece of dough with your hand until you get a round disc.  Place a tea spoon of filling and close the disc into a half moon.  Wrap the gucai guê and place the guê on pieces of small parchment paper and place these on a steaming basket and steam for 8 minutes and him5 for 4 minutes.

The wrapped gucai guê

Place the steaming basket on a pot of boiling water and steam for 8 minutes

Serve the gucai guê with diam zion or chilli sauce.  

Dioziu gucai guê 潮洲韭菜餜

I will make Suatao gucai guê 山頭韭菜餜 very soon. ^_~

Glossary

bhice 米糍 - cakes made from sticky rice dough an example is mochi 
diam zion 甜醬 - a sweet sauce made from mixing plum sauce and si iu
Dioziu 潮洲 - Teochew 
gucai 韭菜 - Chinese chives 
gucai guê 韭菜餜 - a steamed cake / dumpling stuffed with gucai 韭菜.
him5 [no character] - to rest the dumpling in the steamer with the heat turned off and do not open the steaming basket lid.  The residue heat / steam will the do the final cooking of the dumpling.
si iu 豉油 - light soya sauce 
Suatao 山頭 - Swatow 
zug bhi coi 秫米粞 - This is glutinous rice flour and in Mandarin is written as 糯米粉.