Trader Joe’s has gifted us so many incredibly delicious things, and someone quite cleverly figured out how to make a dumpling bake with a bag of Trader Joe’s gyoza potstickers!
Ok, you do need four more items from TJ’s to complete this dinner recipe: organic coconut cream, Soyaki, and Thai style red curry sauce.
With a limited amount of items and only one pan to clean up, how’s that for efficient? Also, it’s mouthwatering, but be warned, it does have a bit of heat to it due to the curry sauce.
To start, grab a baking dish and your four Trader Joe’s ingredients, then preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Pour the entire can of coconut cream into the dish, then add 3 Tablespoons of Soyaki and half of the Thai style red curry sauce.
Mix the sauce well before adding a bag of Trader Joe’s gyoza potstickers. They do come in chicken or Thai vegetable; the chicken ones are my favorite to use here.
Put some tin foil over the top of your baking dish, throw it in the oven for 35 minutes, and you’re done! You can serve this over rice, ramen, or anything else your heart desires.
Ways To Make This Dumpling Bake More Exciting And Special
I do have a few variations for you to try if you would like to make this dumpling bake more exciting or special. While you’re mixing the sauce together and before you put the dumplings in, you can add some minced cloves of garlic or minced ginger.
To make the sauce even spicier (it already does have a kick because of the curry sauce), you can add Gochujang, which is a fermented Korean chili paste.
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Speaking of the sauce itself, you can swap out the coconut cream for coconut milk if you want a lighter option. Before putting your sauce and gyoza in the oven, you can add in bok choy, spinach, broccoli, or cooked ground beef.
For toppings, you can opt for chili oil, sesame seeds, sliced green onion, or chopped cilantro. Or, test out Trader Joe’s Chili Onion Crunch.
One more idea I have for you: if you prefer your gyoza crispy instead of, well, soupy, you can make the sauce alone, and then pan-fry the gyoza.
To do this, put oil in a pan over medium heat, add in your gyoza, and when they’re browned and crispy, you know they’re done and ready to go with the sauce.
And finally, I have to say it’s really affordable to put this together. A bag of gyoza is $3.99 ($4.99 if you opt for Thai vegetable), the coconut cream is $1.89, Soyaki will set you back $3.99, and a bottle of Thai style red curry sauce is $3.49.
What do you think? Is this a dish you’re planning to try for yourself?
By Bre Avery Zacharski
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