Description
Cheese-Stuffed Dumplings + Pesto and Roasted Asparagus – cheesy stuffed dumplings served with pesto and asparagus! So delicious!
Ingredients
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- 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
- 2 Teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 Teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup milk (almond milk works perfectly)
- 2 Tablespoons oil (canola or vegetable)
- (1) 8oz mozzarella ball
- (1) 8oz jar basil pesto
- 1 bunch of asparagus (tough ends chopped off; remaining asparagus cut into 1 inch pieces)
- olive oil
- salt
- fresh parmesan cheese chunks (for garnish)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Combine flour, baking powder, salt and milk in mixing bowl and mix together until it forms a dough.
- Divide dough into 4 equal parts.
- Take one part and divide that in half again – forming to small “pancakes”
- Put one “pancake” on your hand and then take approximately 1-2 Tablespoons of mozzarella and place in the center.
- Take the second “pancake” and place on top.
- Gently bring the two “pancakes” together to form a ball with the mozzarella at the center.
- Repeat with the remaining 3 chunks of dough.
- Once you have 4 balls of dough, take a pasta pot (with the insert with holes in it) and add enough water so that when you put the insert in, the water is just below it.
- Spray the insert with non-stick.
- Place the insert in the pot and put the dumplings inside the insert.
- Bring the water to a simmer and cover for 12 minutes.
- The dumplings will be done when they are fairly firm to the touch.
- While the dumplings are steaming, put your asparagus chunks in a small bowl and drizzle about 1 Tablespoon olive oil on top and 1 Teaspoon kosher salt; toss to coat.
- On foil-lined baking sheet, spread out asparagus.
- Roast for about 5-7 minutes, or until asparagus is tender (feel free to do it longer if you want a more charred asparagus).
- As soon as the asparagus comes out of the oven, combine it with your basil pesto and set aside, keeping warm.
- When you dumplings are done, carefully remove from pan (I used a flexible spatula).
- Place your desired amount of asparagus/pesto in shallow bowl and then add 2 dumplings.
- Drizzle with olive oil and garnish with chunks of fresh parmesan cheese.
- (depending upon if this is a main dish or first course, you could serve 1 or 2 dumplings per person)
- Serve immediately.