Siomay (Indonesian Dumpling). Siomay (Indonesian Dumpling) Kezia's Kitchen 👩🍳 Morayfield, Queensland Australia These tasty treats make a perfect appetizer or you can serve them as a main dish. Siomay is an Indonesian dish consisting of steamed cone-shaped fish dumplings, eggs, potatoes, cabbage, tofu, and bitter melon. After they have been steamed, all ingredients are assembled on a plate, cut into bite-sized pieces, and generously drizzled with a spicy peanut sauce.
In China, they use ground pork and sometimes shrimp.
However, Indonesia has a very large Muslim population.
Siomay (Indonesian Steamed Dumpling in Peanut Sauce) was influenced by Chinese Shumai and hence, the name Siomay.
You can cook Siomay (Indonesian Dumpling) using 25 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Siomay (Indonesian Dumpling)
- You need 500 gram of pork mince ( or 300g chicken meat, paste + 200g shrimp /.
- Prepare of or mackerel fish, paste ).
- Prepare 2 tablespoon of shallots, grated.
- Prepare 2 tablespoon of garlic, mashed.
- It's 1 tablespoon of ground white pepper.
- Prepare 2 tablespoon of sugar.
- It's 2-3 teaspoon of salt.
- It's 1 tablespoon of cooking oil/sesame oil.
- You need 2-3 of eggs.
- Prepare 300 gram of carrot, grated.
- You need 350 gram of tapioca starch.
- You need of Wonton skin (you can buy in Asian grocery).
- You need 1 of medium sized biter melon.
- You need 1 of medium sized cabbage.
- It's 1 of large potatoe.
- It's of Some hard boiled eggs.
- Prepare of Tofu.
- It's of Peanut Sauce:.
- Prepare 500 gram of roasted peanut.
- It's 200 gram of red chlilies.
- Prepare 3 of garlic.
- Prepare 2 tablespoon of tamarind juice.
- Prepare 2 tablespoon of salt.
- You need 5-7 tablespoons of sugar.
- Prepare 1 of , 5 liter water.
The Chinese style looks exactly like Shumai from China with the meat inside the wrapper. It is normally served with sweet and sour sauce on the side. Siomay is generally made from mackerel fish meat because this type of fish has a delicious taste. In addition to the taste factor, mackerel fish is also a type of fish that is easily available in Indonesia, so it is not surprising that mackerel fish is always the basic ingredient of making dumplings.
Siomay (Indonesian Dumpling) step by step
- In a bowl, combine pork meat (chicken meat and shrimp paste) with shallot, garlic, white pepper, sugar, salt, and cooking oil. I used food processor to combine it. Then add egg and mix well. Add grated carrot and mix well. Add tapioca starch, mix well. Set aside. Grease the steamer with small amount of cooking oil to make the dumplings will not sticky when steaming..
- Siomay : Take a piece of wonton skin, scoop about 1 tbs of filling, shape it using hands. Repeat until all the wonton skin are used up. Steam for 20 minutes..
- Potato : Boiled potatoes until half-cooked then peel the potato's skin. Cut in half and scrape a portion of potato side and fill it with the filling. Steam it. If you want simple way, just boiled it and peel the potato skin without fill it with the feeling..
- Tofu : Cut in half and scrape a portion of tofu and fill it with the filling. Steam. You can also just cut in half and directly steam it..
- Bitter melon : Cut in several pieces (as your liking). Scrape the seed portion and fill it in with the filling. Steam it..
- Cabbage : Cut in several pieces as your liking and steam it. Some people usually make the cabbage roll and fill it with the filling. But I choose simple way, just steam it with fill nothing. Egg : hard boiled eggs.
- Peanut Sauce (Peanut Sambal) : Process the peanuts in food processor until smooth. Transfer it into a medium bowl. Set aside. Process red chilies, garlic and shallots until smooth. Heat a skillet and add some cooking oil. Stir fry the smooth red chilies, garlic, and shallot until fragrant. Add the ground peanuts, mix well. Pour water, mix it. Add salt, coconut sugar, tamarind juice, mix well. Wait until the sauce become thick then turn off the heat. Set aside..
- Serving suggestions: place all dumplings on a plate. Pour some peanut sauce and drizzle over lime juice, sweet soy sauce, and some ground chilies or you can use chili sauce from the store.
Siomay or siomai (sometimes called somay) in Indonesia is pronounced the same way as its sisters and is usually a wonton wrapper, stuffed with filling and steamed. It is served also with steamed potatoes, tofu, hard boiled eggs, steamed bitter gourd and cabbages, all are sliced and topped with peanut sauce and kecap manis (sweet soy sauce ). Siomay Bandung is Indonesian steamed fish dumplings served in peanut sauce. Originated from the city of Bandung in West Java, these dumplings are an evolution of Chinese pork shumai. Unlike its dim sum inspiration, siomay Bandung is served as a complete meal with an assortment of vegetables and peanut sauce.