Tag: dumplings

What Is a Dumpling? It’s More Complicated Than You Think

By Jenn Harris From Los Angeles Times Los Angeles–What is a dumpling? That’s the question I posed to dozens of chefs and other experts over the last year on my quest to understand one of the world’s most beloved, pervasive foods. “Technically, a spring roll is a dumpling,” chef Shirley Chung says during a recent…


These Potato Dumplings Are a Comforting Alternative to Mashed Potatoes

When we’re talking about potato dumplings, there will be many opinions on the “correct” way to make them. For German potato dumplings, there are a few schools of thought. There are some who swear that a pinch of ground nutmeg is the best seasoning, while others think that dried marjoram is the way to go….


How to Make Homemade Dumplings for Lunar New Year—or Any Day

In many Chinese homes, dumplings are a traditional, must-have dish to celebrate the Lunar New Year, the most important holiday of the year. Families get together on New Year’s Eve to roll, fill, and wrap a feast’s worth of the plump, ingot-shaped parcels, an auspicious—and delicious—way to ring in the coming year. Across China, the…


Potato Pierogi Are the Best Pierogi

Despite having grown up eating these Polish dumplings, especially around Christmas, I had to re-learn how to say their name as an adult. Two generations removed from speaking Slovak at home, we kids had transformed “pierogi” to “padokee.” And as with another popular Polish food, paczki, the word pierogi is already plural (who could eat…