Marrow’s Mushroom Dumpling Recipe

Chef Sarah Welch from Marrow shares her Mushroom Dumpling recipe with SEEN

CONTRIBUTED BY SARAH WELCH

Mushroom Dumplings from Marrow

Szechuan Soy Sauce

• 1 bottle, sweet soy
• 5 c. water
• 2.5 c. brown sugar
• 3 pc. Cinnamon stick
• 8 pc. star anise
• 4 tsp. fennel seed
• 4 tsp. szechuan peppercorn
• 230 grams fresh ground ginger

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients
2. Bring to boil and reduce til just syrupy
3. Cool and strain.

Chili Oil

• 1 c. sichuan Chili Flake
• 2 tsp. sichuan Peppercorns, ground
• 4 ea. shallot, rough chop
• 4 inches ginger, peeled, rough chop
• 4 c. high temp oil (soy, grapeseed, canola)
• ½ c. sesame oil

Directions:

1. Heat oil with shallot and ginger til infused
2. Strain shallot ginger out
3. Pour hot oil over chili flakes

Corn Butter

• 8 ea. corn cob
• 1 ea. shallot
• 2 ea. garlic clove
• 1 ea. onion
• 2 T rice wine
• ¼ c.heavy cream
• ¼ c.butter 1*
• ¼ c. butter 2* (Cold)
• 1 tbsp Salt

Directions:

1. Cut corn off cob, saving cob for stock
2. Chop Garlic, shallot, onion
3. Add Butter 1* to hot saute pan and lightly brown garlic, shallot, and onion– hit with salt
4. Add Corn and deglaze with rice wine
5. Add Cream and and slowly reduce for 5-7 minutes
6. Add corn mixture to blender
7. As you’re blending the corn mixture, slowly add Butter 2* in 2 stages make sure the butter is cold so it emulsifies properly and doesn’t break
8. Chill

Dumpling Filling

• 3# wild chopped mush
• 3/4 jar sichuan chili bean paste
• 2-3 ea. shallot, fine chop
• 1 large piece ginger, peeled fine chop
• ¼ c. brown sugar
• To taste,tamari
• To taste, black vinegar
• To taste, mirin
• 2 c. corn, cleaned off the cob
• 1 c. thin sliced scallion
• 1 package square dumpling wrappers

Directions:

1. Start with hot pan and oil
2. Add mushrooms
3. Cook moisture out til they get crispyish
4. Add aromatics and chili bean paste
5. Deglaze with black vinegar and mirin
6. Once au sec, add tamari
7. Cook till sexy (caramelized and sticky)
8. Add corn, brown sugar, and scallion at end once off heat
9. Put one tbsp of filling in a wrapper center, wet edges, and fold into triangles.

To Assemble:

• 1 c. Mushrooms
• 1 tbsp. Minced garlic
• 1 tbsp. Shallot
• ¼ c. Fresh corn off the cob
• Scallion, to garnish
• Sesame, to garnish

10. Boil dumplings 1-2 minutes until they float
11. Meanwhile, saute mushrooms with garlic and shallot, finish with corn
12. Pull dumplings into a bowl with 1:1 chile oil and sweet soy
13. Place corn butter at bottom of bowl
14. Top with dumplings in sauce
15. Finish with sauteed mushrooms, scallions, and sesame

Read about Marrow’s Chef Sarah Welch here.

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