Healthy Macrobiotic Vegetable Gyoza. These Vegetable Gyoza are stuffed with a delicious mix of tofu, cabbage, carrots, and shiitake mushrooms. With golden crisp bottoms, fresh juicy filling, and homemade dipping sauce, it's love at first bite! You don't have to be vegetarian or vegan to enjoy these Japanese pan-fried dumplings.

Without using any meat, you can make tasty gyoza. The outsides are crispy and the insides are soft and mild-flavoured. I use thin onions but you can use Chinese garlic. You can cook Healthy Macrobiotic Vegetable Gyoza using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Healthy Macrobiotic Vegetable Gyoza

Prepare 30 of Gyoza wrappers.
Prepare 2 of Koya-dofu (freeze-dried tofu).
Prepare 5 of leaves Cabbage.
Prepare 1 of knob Ginger.
You need 15 cm of Green onions or scallions.
It's 1 of Spring onions or scallions.
You need 70 grams of Maitake mushrooms.
Prepare 1 of large, King oyster mushroom.
You need 1 tbsp of ●Soy sauce.
It's 2 tbsp of ●Sesame oil.
It's 1 tsp of ●Beet sugar.
Prepare 1 tsp of ●Vegetarian Chinese stock powder (optional).
It's 1 tsp of at a time ★Plain flour (dissolved in water) to finish pan frying.

I made revisions as suggested in the recipe description to make these non-vegetarian (replaced part of the mushroom portion with surimi and ham). Takes quite a bit of time, as gyoza typically do. Froze the extras for a quick meal down the road. This is our family favorite recipe, Japanese style vegan gyoza.

Healthy Macrobiotic Vegetable Gyoza step by step

Soak the koya-dofu in water to rehydrate. Put the cabbage into a food processor to chop. Transfer the chopped cabbage into a bowl. Sprinkle with salt (not listed in the ingredients) and leave to sit for 20 minutes. Squeeze out the water from the cabbage..
Pulse the koya-dofu in your food processor, transfer to a separate bowl, and set aside..
Put the green onions, spring onions, king oyster mushroom, and maitake mushrooms into a food processor and chop finely. Grate the ginger..
Combine the ingredients from Steps 1, 2, and 3 with ● seasonings in a bowl and mix well. Wrap the mixture with gyoza pastries and pan fry..
[Tips for frying:] Heat some sesame oil (not listed in the ingredients) and arrange the gyoza in circle. Fry over medium heat for 4 to 5 minutes. Agitate the frying pan occasionally..
After the bottom of the gyoza has browned, drizzle over a slurry of 50-60 ml water and 1 teaspoon ★ plain flour. Cover with a lid and reduce the heat to low. Continue to fry for about 3 minutes..
Uncover the lid and turn the heat to high. Evaporate the water and cook until crispy. The gyoza with crispy bits are done..
This packet of Chinese stock powder is vegetarian, but if you can't find it, simply omit it..

It requires only vegetables but it's delicious, flavorful and so crispy. You might be surprised that it's meatless! Gyoza is one of the most popular Japanese home cooking recipe. It's family friendly recipe and typically children learn how to wrap it at their kitchen. Vegetable Gyoza Recipe Gyoza is dumplings, usually ground pork or chicken and vegetables wrapped in round (fresh pasta like) flour skins and pan-fried.