Recipes 101: Lesson 1 - 水餃子 (Water Dumplings)

What, you ask, are Water Dumplings?

Exhibit A: Delicious Water Dumplings.
美味しい水餃子

"It looks amazing! How do I make it?"

すげえ！美味しそう！どうやって作るの？ 

Step 1: Get a big pot. Put lots of meat into the big pot. Add soy sauce and mix it together
by stirring vigorously in a clockwise (or anti-clockwise) motion like there's no tomorrow.

Step 2: Get another big pot. Grate daikon, lots of it. 

Step 3: Add the grated daikon to the meat, and mix by stirring vigorously
in a clockwise motion (or anti-clockwise - depending on your
preferred choice per Step 1) like there's no tomorrow.

Step 4: Add finely diced Negi (Japanese spring onion) and mix together,
again, stirring in a clockwise motion (or anti-clockwise - depending
on your preferred choice per Steps 1 and 3) like there's no tomorrow. 

Step 5: Make the wrapper for the dumplings by mixing water with flour.
Use your hands to combine the mixture by stirring vigorously
in a clockwise (or anti-clockwise) motion.
This time, it's ok to stir like there is a tomorrow.

Steps 6 - 10: Due to floured hands, no picture is available for these steps, where you knead the mixture, let it rest, roll it out, portion into small chunks, and flatten into little circular shapes. But I'm sure you can figure it out by yourself. 

Here's some that I made earlier:

Step11: Add some filling in the wrapper and seal the edges.
Amount of filling depends on how big your wrapper is, and
how hungry you feel. 

Step 12: Boil the dumplings. Eat the dumplings.
Even better, boil lots of dumplings and get some friends over to enjoy it with you.

Serve with vinegar, soy sauce and some green tea.