Homemade Gyoza | Utah Food Photographer

Making gyoza was one of my favorite things we did as a family when I was growing up. It was a bonding experience to sit around the table, talking, stuffing gyoza wrappers with delicious pork filling. I remember trying, and mostly failing to make the perfectly crimped edges and being elated when that elusive success came. I remember waiting with anticipation as my parents steamed and browned each divine bundle. I smile, thinking back on the childhood struggle of trying to master chop sticks, ultimately succumbing to stabbing the dumpling with a stick, instead of gently pinching it… I eventually learned how to use them. We didn’t make gyoza often. Maybe once a year, if that. But everyone always loved when we did. I recently made them with my own children. Something I hope we do many more times. I hope it will be something they look back on with the same fondness that I do of my childhood moments making this same dish.