How to make Gyoza
>and then mix the gyoza ingredients together in a bowl using your hands.
> you’ve gotta get your hands dirty to make these! Scoop up the mixture into a ball with your hands and throw it back with some force into the bowl. Repeat this several times to tenderize the meat and help the mixture stick together. Now it’s time to form your gyoza. Put a bit of the meat mixture in the center of a wrapper, get your fingertip wet and then trace a line around half of the wrapper.
>Then you fold the wrapper in half over the filling,
>and pinch it in the center.
>Now comes the fun part–the pleating! Holding the wrapper in that middle spot that you just pinched with your left hand, make a pleat in the top part of the wrapper, pinching it against the flat edge of the wrapper at the back.
>Holding the filled half-circle in the left hand, pleat the top of the wrapper from the middle out, pressing it to the flat edge of the wrapper at the back (only the front edge will be pleated–the back edge stays flat). Proceed to make two or three more pleats to the right of the first pleat.
>Then switch sides and pleat the other side (to the left of the pinched middle).
>Set aside the stuffed dumpling with the pleated-wrapper edge up.