Looking for a healthy potsticker recipe

Debbiedebbiey · November 2012

I love the lean cuisine potstickers! But only eat them & I toss the rice which makes me feel wasteful . I've never ordered potstickers from a restaurant so Idk what they taste like other than lean cuisine. I would think you could use won ton wrappers but what's in the filling ? And a sauce that doesn't have tons of sugar ? Thanks to anyone who helps me with this one !

hellzak · November 2012

Healthy Chicken Pot Stickers Recipe

1 pound ground chicken
1.5 cups of pre-packaged broccoli slaw or finely sliced Napa cabbage
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 Tablespoon freshly grated ginger
1 Tablespoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper (optional)
salt and pepper
1 package won ton wrappers
sesame oil
soy sauce for dipping

Cook chicken in a large skillet over medium high heat until completely done. Drain off any fat. Return chicken to pan and add broccoli slaw to pan. Cook for 3 minutes, or until the vegetables are softened. Add garlic, ginger and soy sauce, cook for 1 more minute. Remove pan from heat and stir in crushed red pepper if using, salt and pepper to taste.

Lay out 9 won ton wrappers on a clean surface. Moisten the edges of the won ton wrappers with water using your fingers or a pastry brush. Spoon 1 tablespoon of the ground chicken mixture into the center of each won ton wrapper.

Fold won ton wrapper so that it forms a triangle. Gently fold edges to form pleats – this will help the pot stickers stay together as they cook. Repeat process until all filling is used.

Heat about 2 tablespoons sesame oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add a few pot stickers at a time to the pan lying on their side. Cook about 1-2 minutes or until golden brown, then turn over and cook on the other side. Repeat with remaining pot stickers. Serve with soy sauce for dipping.

WickedGarden · November 2012

I have never had Lean Cuisine potstickers, but I know they are full of preservatives.

the filling is basically a mixture of pork or beef (sometimes they mix in shrimp) and some veggies.

I don't have a 'recipe' I just toss together a bunch of stuff, but the basics are:

1 pound of ground pork or beef
3 diced green onions/scallions
1 tablespoon of fresh ginger
1 tsp of diced garlic
1 cup of finely diced cilantro
1 raw egg
1 tablespoon of cornstarch
Feel free to add in bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, carrots etc.
Also put in a few tablespoons of soy sauce, and some hoisin, or oyster sauce.

EDIT: this will make about 50 potstickers, enough for one package of wrappers-if you have leftover filling, you can use it to make fried rice.

Everything needs to be diced or chopped finely, you will only put 1 teaspoon of filling in a wonton wrapper.
I don't know if they are available in your area, but I get the 'medium' thickness wrappers, so my SO can fry them.
I prefer them boiled/steamed.

When I make them, I will sit and make 100 at a time, they freeze wonderfully. They taste just like the ones we get at dim sum.

To cook: get a pot of boiling water, toss in the post stickers until the wrapper gets wrinkly around the filling.
To steam: oil the bottom of the steamer (unless you have a bamboo steamer) place in the steamer and steam until the wrappers wrinkle.

A sauce for them, I just mix soy sauce and hoisin sauce.