cheese dumplings

• u.s.
• metric

ingredients:

• 5 ounces Gouda cheese
• 1 egg
• 6 ounces onion
• 4 ounces all-purpose flour or cake flour
• 2 cups bonito soup stock or water
• suitable amount ketchup
• 2 tablespoons oil

step 1:

Cut the cheese into 21 pieces. (First, see comment section below regarding pan size).

step 2:

Chop the onion.

step 3:

Beat the egg in a large bowl. Add the flour and bonito soup stock (or water), and mix very well.

step 4:

Heat an electric takoyaki pan (available on Amazon.com) at 360 °F for 5 minutes.

step 5:

Soak a paper towel with the oil. Coat each mold and the entire surface of the pan with it.

step 6:

Pour the mixture (Step 3) over the entire pan. Add one cheese piece to each mold.

step 7:

Sprinkle the onion over the entire surface of the pan.

step 8:

After the mixture around the molds begins to harden, push it into the molds with a wooden or iron skewer.

step 9:

Cook about 5 minutes and turn over each cheese dumpling with the skewer.

step 10:

Cook the other side for about 5 more minutes.