Gluten Free Dumpling Recipe

I learned to make these dumplings from a class on Gluten-Free Dumplings by Rebecca Reilly at the Natural Gourmet Institute. I love cooking food that is not normally found in home kitchens–so learning how to cook dumplings at home was a special treat. I thought I would share this terrific dumpling recipe and also a link to the gluten free cooking and baking classes at the Natural Gourmet Institute. I am really looking forward to Rebecca Reilly’s next class, Extraordinary Gluten-Free Italian Desserts, on Friday, April 23rd.

Rebecca Reilly’s Dumpling Dough

Ingredients:
1 cup superfine rice flour (you must use Authentic Foods brown rice flour or EnerG rice flour–Bob’s red mill is too grainy)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup tapioca starch
1/3 cup arrowroot starch (or tapioca starch or potato starch)
1/3 cup sweet rice flour
1 tablespoon xanthum gum
1 egg
1/2 cup cold water + 1/4 cup cold water if neccessary

1. Combine rice flour, salt, tapioca, arrowroot, sweet rice flour and xanthum gum in a food processor until evenly combined. (If you don’t have a food processor, you can whisk these ingredients together.
2. Whisk together egg with 1/2 cup cold water until well blended. Turn on food processor and gradually add egg/water mixture.
3. Add more water 1 tablespoon (up to 1/4 cup) at a time until dough forms a soft ball.
4. If the dough is too sticky, add 1 tablespoon of sweet rice flour.
5. Roll out dough on a board lightly dusted with gluten free flour until thin as a crepe. Cut with 3 inch round cookie cutters or trace with a knife around a small bowl.
6. Put a little water around the inner edge of the round and fill with a teaspoon of filling. Fold dumpling in half and seal pressing edges together. Make small decorative folds.
7. Heat 2 tablespoon oil in frying pan. Put the dumplings in the pan fitting them close together