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Hie shumai

Here is a recipe for a shumai (Chinese steamed dumpling) made with the minor grain hie (barnyard grass). However, although it is a shumai, it is not wrapped in a shumai skin and so is very easy to make!

Hie shumai
Ingredients

1 cup hie. 300 cc water.
1 cup walnuts, 1 onion, 1 bag Vegeta Soup Mix (with the powder removed from the bag), half cup unbleached white flour, a little pepper, a little grape seed oil, some pumpkin seeds or green peas.

[Recipe]

1) Place the hie grain in a fine-mesh (bamboo) sieve and wash well, then place in a pot, add water and bring to the boil over a strong flame. Boil while mixing with a wooden spatula. When you mix, once you can see the bottom of the pot, turn down the flame to as low as you can get it, place the lid on the pot and simmer for a further 10 minutes. When the grain is ready, turn off the heat and allow to remain in its own steam of a further 10 minutes.

2) Heat the walnuts in a frying pan or roast them in an oven and then crush them up finely. Chop the onion finely.

3) Heat some grape seed oil in a frying pan, fry the onions until transparent, season with the Vegeta Soup Mix powder and pepper.

4) Mix the hie from 1) with the fried onion, crushed walnuts and wheat flour, and shape into little shumai dumplings.

5) Fry the dumplings from 4) till a nice foxy brown.

6) Decorate the shumai dumplings from 5) with a pumpkin seed or pea.

[Made with the following vegetarian ingredients]


Hie	Vegeta soup powder	Light and Waves natural water	Light and Waves Natural Water

Raw Organic Walnuts	Unbleached white wheat flour	White pepper powder

[Staff comment]

The minor grains are not things we eat every day and it's refreshing to see them used in this way! As they have walnuts in them, you can enjoy these shumai as a snack at anytime. Healthy and good for the children's packed lunches.

[Customer feedback]

Ms. A: These were easier to make than I thought. Fresh-tasting despite being fried, and a nice soft texture. A bit like minced chicken when cool? Simple and tasty. Popular with my children – my daughter complained when they were all gone, so I had to make more! Thanks for the tasty recipe.

Ms. B: This was the first time I had cooked hie at home, but it was surprisingly easy to do and tasted good. The children thought they were croquettes (ha, ha). They are actually a little like potato croquettes and the walnuts give them a mellow flavour.

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