Dumplings for Beginners: 50 Recipes and Simple Step-by-Step Lessons to Make Your Favorite Dumplings

Dumplings for Beginners by Terri Dien provides beginner-friendly recipes and instructions for making Asian dumplings at home. The book contains 50 recipes covering boiled, steamed, deep-fried, and pan-fried dumplings, along with soups, sides, and dipping sauces. The guide includes dough primers that teach how to make three types of dough and how to portion, roll out, and fold five classic dumpling shapes. It also offers recipe hacks for switching up dumpling flavors and textures through alternate fillings, sauce and stock pairings, and different cooking methods. Additional sections cover kitchen essentials, including advice on stocking necessary equipment and ingredients. The book enables readers to make potstickers, wontons, baos, and other dim sum classics from scratch at home.