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How do you cook frozen Asian dumplings: Mandu, Wantons, potstickers or Gyoza in an air fryer? I air fry some mini wantons from Costco in our Ninja Foodi Air Fryer PLUS make a delicious easy gyoza dipping sauce while they are cooking. If you want the cooking time and temperature for frozen gyoza, this video is for you!
Delicious AIR FRYER DUMPLINGS! Frozen Gyoza, Mandu, Wantons... plus EASY DIPPING SAUCE Asian Style!
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It's really difficult coming up with ideas for meals, especially family mealtime. We don't need a recipe; we just need some ideas for dinner. Here's an easy idea where we can just bung it in the air fryer – these gorgeous Japanese dumplings, or are they Korean Mandu or Chinese wontons? This is where my cultural ignorance kicks in. What is the difference between a gyoza or wontons or Mandu? Apparently, there is a huge difference - the shape of them, the thickness of the wrap, and the whole country that they come from! But I'm going to get these dumplings and bung it in the air fryer! These are frozen wanton-style I love that song, "wanton style!”
Wanton-style dumplings. They're actually Mandu, but they're like gyoza, and they come in a bag, a frozen bag from Costco. And they have actually got air fryer instructions on the back of the pack.
So what are we going to do? Let's bung it in the air fryer!
The instructions say to lay out 12 to 15 dumplings. I’m... I think I'm going to go for 15 rather than 12. They sort of look a bit like ravioli, they're that kind of size. But in go the 12 and I definitely come back and make sure that it's 15 dumplings. Now, I'm not sure that you need to do this, but the pack says that we should brush some cooking oil on. I'm using this toasted sesame oil to... and I found a brush as well, which is a silicone brush. I'll put that down in the description if you want to get one of those. I don't think you need any of this, but just because I've got it to hand, I'm brushing some oil onto the dumplings and making a nice big fat mess. It's okay if there's some oil left over because I'm going to be using this for easy gyoza dumpling dipping sauce, so we'll use the leftovers for that.
But now the big moment: now we get to bung it in the air fryer!
We are going to select air fry and put up 200°C. That's 390°F. And I'm going to dial up 3 minutes. The whole thing will take 6 minutes, but we'll do 3 minutes for this first section. While the dumplings are air frying, I'm now making the gyoza dipping sauce. This is an easy dipping sauce that I've lifted from the internet. I'm not Asian, and your taste will vary, but I'm using soy sauce, some apple cider vinegar. I'm going to use the toasted sesame oil, and oh, I've just remembered, I've got some left over from where I was brushing them on the wantons. And I'm putting in a generous spoon of honey. I think I'm putting a bit too much in. I think it only needs a little bit for sweetness, but let's go nuts and give that a really nice mix.
But I'm also going to add sesame seeds just to give it a bit of sesame seed flavour.
Some people toast the seeds, and I wonder if I could toast them in the air fryer while the wontons are cooking. That probably would have been a good idea. And just to jeuje it up even more, I'm cutting the skin off this ginger here so that I can microplane it into the sauce. Just a little bit of fresh ginger. And I've got some garlic as well. I won't use all of this; I'm just using half a garlic clove. And that can go into the sauce as well. We'll give it a really nice big mix, and it looks messy and sloppy, and the quantities are probably wrong, but at least I've got something to dip my wontons or gyoza or Mandu into.
The 3 minutes are up, so let's have a look. Oh, it's looking good; they're starting to sizzle. So it was a good idea to put the oil on for the sizzle. So we give them a shake, turn them over, but... oh, I turn that one over, and then put them on for another 3 minutes. So that is air fry 200 or 390°F and 3 minutes. Go. The extra 3 minutes are nearly up, so let's have a look. Ah, look at them! They look absolutely delicious, sizzling away with the lightly brushed oil. They smell absolutely delicious as well. Let's get them onto the plate. I'll speed this bit up. I have no idea why I love Asian food so much. I... I’m going to have these for breakfast; they look absolutely sumptuous.
Usually, I boil these in a pot of water because it's easier, but they tend to fall apart, and you don't get that crisp texture for the wrap. Look at them; these look absolutely succulent. I know once I finish this plate off, I will probably air fry another batch to use the sauce up. Let's hold off no longer. Maybe I should get some chopsticks. All right, so this is how you know you're in a western household: mismatching chopsticks. Right, let's give this a try. I'm going to try and do this and hold the camera. I don't know if this is going to work. Oh, with the dipping sauce, it is absolutely delicious. Let me open one up for you. Oh, it's steaming up. I was going to bite into this and show you the inside, but that would be disgusting, wouldn't it? So let me be elegant and cut it open with a knife.
And there you can see the pork and vegetables inside. Absolutely scrumptious. Oh!
[Music] Oh my goodness. Do you think you might be trying out some frozen dumplings in your air fryer? Leave me a comment down below; be lovely to hear from you. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. And right here, just over there, are all my other air fryer meal ideas and recipes for your air fryer.
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