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[Ya-ta Boy]

When you're lounging around the apt and get the munchies for some mandoo, what kind of sauce do you use? I've always been boring and just threw some vinegar, soy sauce and kochoo powder together and munched away. Just like in the restaurant. Nothing wrong with it. It was pretty tasty.

But then, yesterday, I was looking at some Indian food recipes and came across this Indian Relish recipe. Hmmm...I thought. How could I use this? Then I had an epiphany. Mandoo!

So I whipped some up yesterday afternoon and refrigerated it. All day, at the god-awful middle school classes, the thing I kept in mind was: The kids may be animals, but tonight I'll have mandoo with Indian Relish.

I was right. It's a darn fine recipe. Easy as pie and twice as tasty. The sauce is sweet/sour and the peppers give it just the right bite. It made just the right amount to fill an old peanut butter jar, so storage is no problem.

Who else has a good alternative mandoo sauce idea?


Indian Relish
� 2 red bell peppers, chopped (a mix of colors�red, orange, yellow)
� 1 sweet onion, peeled and chopped
� 1 cup white wine vinegar (or red)
� 1 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon crushed red pepper flakes

In a medium saucepan over medium heat, mix together red bell peppers, onion, white wine vinegar, sugar and crushed red pepper flakes. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to simmer. Stirring occasionally, cook 30 minutes, or until thickened. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight before serving. (I had to add a couple of teaspoons of cornstarch to make mine thicken.)

[Jarome_Turner]

I dunno about sauce, but I've got an addiction to tuna mandoo.... just mixin up some tuna and mayo, a little bit of pre-shredded mozzi cheese and fry in the pan with olive oil. Top 'em with heinz relish.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Mr. Turner,

Are you MAKING your own mandoo?

[ChopChaeJoe]

Man, i could use some dumpling sauce ideas. I had 'em tonight for dinner, no sauce, just some oi kimchi i fried up with it. I was actually thinking that there should be a sauce with this.

[cwemory]

a coteacher of mine swears by ranch dressing with mandu. It sounds a bit too creamy-greasy for me though.

[peony]

co-worker originally from HK made me some Chinese mandoo one day, for the sauce she heated up some oil in a pan and then poured the piping hot oil over a ton of raw minced garlic, she added soy sauce, vinegar and some sugar i think to it and it was delicious!!

only works if you're a big fan of garlic though, that smell stayed with me for days!!!

[Jarome_Turner]

[VirginIslander]

I will tell how to make nepalise sauce but I will not tell you how to make their dumplings. Its a (adopted) family recipe.

You will need 3-5 tomatoes, a handful of cilantro, red pepper, curry, salt and a few other spices.

First, slice up the tomatoes into four pieces each. Put them into a pot and boil them. Stir and add the salt, pepper and a few other spices. Do not forget to stir. When the tomatoes are somewhat solid and liquid, add a couple pinches of curry and red pepper. Throw a hot Korean pepper in there, diced of course.

You will have to experiment with the spices and lower the heat when necessary, there is no exact formula.

Add Cilantro and more curry and more spices. Do not cook the cilantro with the tomotoes for too long.use a handful of diced up cilantro leaves Heat for maybe a minute or two.

Then, blend the sauce. Add more salt and spices to perfect the taste because sometimes the tomato taste is too strong. If mixed right, it should taste like a Mexican/Indian salsa.

Cool the sauce in you fridge and pour over hot dumplings.

You might have trouble finding Cilantro in Korea, but it can be found.

Enjoy.

PS Nepalise dumplings are the best in the world. I challenge any cook to a dumpling cook off who says otherwise.

[canuckistan]

Having harvested the last of the green tomatoes in the middle of a snowstorm they were saved. Boxes and boxes of them. Guess what the neighbours are getting for Xmas this year?

Mennonite green tomato and apple pickle (with some separated out to add Madras curry to for our private stock.) I also made green tomato chutney which you can do with red tomatoes as well.
Next time you make your relish try putting a little bashed fresh ginger in a cloth bag and simmering it with the mix. Adds a lot to the chutney-ish/relish flavour.

You can add chopped raisins, apples, shallots...all kinds of stuff

Letting it sit for a few weeks for the flavours to mingle apparently makes a better final product...so everyone's gotta wait 'til Xmas.

A chef is just a glutton with brains

[Hyeon Een]

That's wasabi. It's Japanese. Good with raw fish.

[luffy]

Wasabi is good with mandoo too.

[gsantrim]

My favorite is pretty simple...

1/4 cup soy sauce
1 TBSP crushed red pepper sauce
1/2 TBSP hot mustard.

All mixed together until it makes a yellow/orangish sauce. Dip, slather, or whatever in copious amounts. It's the same recipe from PF Changs back in the states.

[seonsengnimble]

peanutbutter, sesame oil and gochu-jang simmered over low heat.