Spicy “Pastil” Dumpling Soup
Posted under Other Dishes, Soups
It’s rainy season here in the Philippines. And it’s common to most Filipinos to enjoy this kind of weather in bed, drinking coffee or hot choco, or sipping soup. Now, I am going to showcase here a re-invented local delicacy of Zamboanga called the “Pastil.” It’s a spicy Muslim food usually eaten for snacks or “merienda.” It’s a perfect spicy soup that will keep you warm during rainy seasons.
This recipe is the re-invented “Pastil” called the Spicy “Pastil” Dumpling Soup. I have been cooking Pastil for merienda (snack) during weekend sometime. Since it’s raining today and craving for something hot and spicy, I decided to cook it again but re-invented it to make it more healthier and delicious.
Ingredients:
Dough for dumpling wrappers
- 1/4 kg. all purpose flour
- 1 egg
- 1 pinch of salt
- 2 TBS sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 TBS butter melted in 1/2 cup of hot water
- 1 TBS baking powder
Dumpling Fillings
- 200 grams Chinese rice noodles (pancit bihon)
- 1 liter of water
- 1 TBS salt
Soup
- 1 liter water
- 1 TBS poweder black pepper
- 3 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 10 pcs, small size red pepper or “sili”, chopped
- 3 beef cubes (or chicken), you can also replace this with real broth
- 1 small carrot, chopped into small cubes
- 1 small cabbage, chopped
- 5 stalks of Onion chives, chopped
- 1/2 cup of coconut vinegar or pineapple vinegar
First, you need to prepare the dough for the dumplings. In a bowl, mix the flour, water, melted butter, baking power, salt, and sugar. Mix well until you arrive with something like this…
Now, leave the dough in a bowl and let it seat for few minutes while you prepare the noodle fillings. Boil water and the salt for the fillings. When boiling, pour in the Chinese rice noodles. Stir it until the noodle is soft. After that, strain the noodles and set aside in a bowl.
Now, it’s time to make the dumplings. Cut a small portion of the dough at flat it in circle. Put a small amount of the noodles in the flat dough and seal the ends of the wrapping by pressing the ends with the ends of fork. Now, do all the dough until finished.
When done, we can now prepare the soup. Put all the soup ingredients at once, except for the carrots, onion chives, and cabbage, and wait until it boils. Add additional seasonings to achieve your desired taste. When it’s boiling, put the dumplings in the boiling soup for 5 minutes, then add the carrots, onion chives and cabbage. Cover and let again boil for 3 minutes more.
Now, it’s ready. Serve it while it’s hot in a bowl with 2 or 3 dumplings in it. You can have 25 dumplings for this recipe and can be repared in 40-50 minutes.
Oh, by the way, if you want to do the traditional pastil, just follow same recipe and just fry the dumplings instead of mixing it with the soup and take out the vegetables in the soup. Now you have your traditional pastil.
Enjoy the rainy season and the Spicy Pastil Dumpling Soup.
