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When it comes to viral food recipes, much like anything else, you can’t always believe what you read on the internet. All too often, a buzzy recipe takes over our feeds, just for the real-life attempts at replication to fall flat like a failed cafeteria lunch concoction.
This doesn’t seem to be the case with dumpling lasagna, one of the internet’s latest newest trending recipe.
What Is Dumpling Lasagna?
The dumpling lasagna recipe has gained traction in recent weeks, just in time for cozy winter meals. But this recipe—which appears to have been first shared by Seattle creator Aila Lin last fall—is quite different from a traditional dumpling preparation, though it still features the same components and familiar flavors.
The dish basically takes everything you love about a dumpling and turns it into a layered dish similar in concept to a lasagna. Claire, a.k.a. Here’s Your Bite, recently shared her take on the recipe in a viral video.
How It’s Made
In Claire’s approach, as detailed in the recipe she shared in her Substack newsletter, she starts by mixing the traditional dumpling fillings—ground pork, scallions, grated garlic and ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil, chili crisp, rice vinegar, and white pepper—and setting that mixture aside.
Then, you briefly dip wonton wrappers in water before laying them flat on the bottom of either a baking dish or an individual ramekin to form a full layer. That layer is then topped with the pork mixture, and the process repeats until you run out of room in your dish.
The dish is topped with a final wonton layer and a bit of chicken broth or water, then steamed in a steamer for about 25 minutes. Once fully cooked, it is finished off with more soy sauce, chili crisp, scallions, and sesame seeds.
What Makes It Work
Of course, one of the biggest differences between the dumpling lasagna and a traditional dumpling preparation is the elimination of the trickiest part of the dumpling-making process to master: the folding, sealing, and crimping of each individual dumpling to guarantee an aesthetically pleasing appearance that also doesn’t leak any filling. It can be tricky for a novice cook to master.
What the Internet Is Saying
In the comment sections of viral dumpling lasagna posts, social media users have praised the recipe’s simplicity and flavor.
“I just needed to come back and say that I saved this recipe and made it tonight for dinner, and there is absolutely NONE left,” wrote Instagram user (and RuPaul’s Drag Race alum) Shea Couleé, who made @heresyourbite’s recipe. “I have hesitated making my own dumplings, but this looks super easy and fantastic gateway dumpling dish,” said another Instagram user, in response to the creator Inga Lam’s dumpling lasagna video.
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