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    Home » Recipes » American

    Updated: May 7, 2023 by Marc · 15 Comments

    Apple Pie Potstickers

    A bite-size apple pie wrapped in a crisp buttery potsticker wrapper. Served with a vanilla caramel sauce, these dessert potstickers are divine.
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    Apple pie is one of my favorite desserts of all time. It's not only delicious, the smells, imagery and flavor bring back warm childhood memories of my favorite days of the year (Thanksgiving and Christmas). Although the kitchen was primarily my mom's domain, my stepdad would dawn an apron and tackle the kitchen for the holidays. A by-the-book kinda guy, he follows the hand scrawled recipes on tattered yellow recipe cards with fanatical precision. While he's the polar opposite of me in almost every way imaginable, he can bake one hell of an apple pie.

    Unlike my stepdad, I bore easily with the status quo, and I'm always looking for new ways to do things. Whether it's as humdrum as a different route to the grocery store, or a new way of folding laundry, introducing change into my daily routine is what keeps me creative and sane. This also holds true in the kitchen where even Thanksgiving classics like turkey and cranberry sauce get reinvented every year. But alongside my need to explore, I also have lazy a streak, which is why I'm always looking for easier, faster ways of making things.

    Pie making is not well suited for the impatient or inexact, which is why it doesn't get made much in my kitchen. Determined to come up with a faster, easier way to quench my desires for spicy apples and buttery crust, I started running through all the possible ways I could speed the process up.

    I'd seen photos of an apple pie springroll on Pinterest a while back, but deep frying requires a certain amount of commitment and instead of a buttery crust, you'd end up with a crisp oily crust. That's around the time I started tossing around the idea of turning an apple pie into a pan-fried dumpling like a potsticker.

    The buttery crisp wrapper gives way to a sweet juicy apple, redolent of cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. As if that weren't enough (and it is), serving these with a vanilla caramel dipping sauce just takes this to a whole other level, melding beautifully with the nutty crust and tart spicy apples.

    Dippable and poppable, these apple pie potstickers are perfect for a potluck buffet, but they could also be individually plated along with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of caramel sauce.

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    Apple Pie Potstickers

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    Prep Time 10 minutes mins
    Cook Time 10 minutes mins
    Total Time 20 minutes mins
    Yield 32 potsticker

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    Ingredients 

    • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
    • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    • ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
    • ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
    • 2 large honeycrisp apples (fuji will work as well)
    • 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
    • 32 potsticker wrappers
    • 3 tablespoons cultured unsalted butter
    • 1 cup water
    • 2 tablespoons dark rum
    • 1 batch vanilla caramel sauce

    Instructions

    • In a small bowl, combine the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice and stir to combine.
    • In another small bowl add some water.
    • Peel, quarter and core the apples and then slice each quarter into 4 wedges. You should have 32 pieces of apple.
    • Now take one of your potsticker wrappers out and test-fit the slice of apple. Depending on how big your wrappers and apple are, you may need to trim the wedges smaller to make them fit.
    • Put the apples in a bowl, dust with the flour and toss to coat evenly.
    • To wrap your potstickers, put one wrapper in your left hand (assuming you're right handed).
    • Place an apple off to one side of the center of the wrapper.
    • Dust with about ¼ teaspoon of the spiced sugar mixture.
    • Wet the entire rim of the wrapper by dipping your fingers in the bowl of water and running them around the edge of the wrapper.
    • Fold the wrapper in half and seal. You can add a few pleats into the wrapper as you fold, but this is not necessary. Be sure the wrapper is sealed tight, otherwise it will leak when you cook them. Repeat until you've used all the apples.
    • Measure out 1 cup of water in a liquid measuring cup and then add 2 tablespoons of dark rum.
    • To fry the potstickers, you'll need to either use a very large pan or fry them in batches. How many batches you do will determine how much butter and water to use for each batch. For example if you plan to do it in three batches, use 1 tablespoon of butter and ⅓ of the water rum mixture.
    • Heat a non-stick frying pan over medium high heat until hot. Add the butter (see step 12 for how much butter to add) and swirl to coat the pan and then add the potstickers, flat-side down.
    • When the wrappers start to take a little bit of color, add some of the rum water (see step 8 for how much water to add) and immediately cover with a lid.
    • Turn down the heat to medium and let the apple potstickers steam for about 4 minutes, or until the water has mostly evaporated.
    • Remove the lid and let any moisture evaporate.
    • Continue frying the potstickers until they are golden brown and crisp on the bottom.
    • Serve crisp-side up with some vanilla caramel dipping sauce.
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    Nutrition

    Calories 44kcalCarbohydrates 7gFat 1gCholesterol 3mgSodium 43mgPotassium 21mgSugar 2gVitamin A 40IUVitamin C 0.7mgCalcium 5mgIron 0.3mg

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    1. phu says

      November 09, 2014 at 2:07 pm

      You had me at "redolent of cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice." I hope this becomes another Christmas tradition.

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    2. bk2012515 says

      November 10, 2014 at 2:07 am

      Ooooooh, lovely!!!
      I would like to exclude rum since I will be making for young children, is there a substitute?
      Tks!

      Reply
    3. Marc Matsumoto says

      November 10, 2014 at 2:43 am

      Hi BK, just leave out the rum, it's there just for flavor so it's not necessary.

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    4. Joyce says

      November 13, 2014 at 12:54 pm

      Great idea, these would be useful in using up the extra wrappers after making potstickers! There is no step 12 for how much butter and water to use...are you referring to step 8 instead?

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    5. Marc Matsumoto says

      November 14, 2014 at 8:16 am

      Oops, sorry about that, it should be fixed now:-)

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    6. phu says

      November 24, 2014 at 10:42 am

      Made a couple test batches tonight and this is GREAT! One thing I'd suggest as an alternative is mincing the apple; I did that for the second batch and it came out pretty much the same, but it was a lot easier to fold with the minced apple, which behaved a bit more like normal (meat/minced veggies/etc) filling. They came out more consistently-shaped, as well.

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    7. Marc Matsumoto says

      November 24, 2014 at 5:31 pm

      Hi Phu, thanks for the suggestion, I actually tried chopping them up when I was testing this recipe, but for me it was harder to wrap because the corners of the apple chunks kept tearing through the wrapper. Did you chop them pretty small?

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    8. phu says

      November 25, 2014 at 2:53 am

      Yeah, pretty small, about 1-2mm. I did have one incident with corners making the wrapper particularly unhappy, but for the most part it worked well.

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    9. Aiko says

      May 17, 2016 at 6:03 am

      Thanks, Marc! This looks awesome. I love the creative take on classic gyoza. Alhough I grew up in the US, my mother was Nihonjin, so I know how to make traditional gyoza, crimp the edges, add the water, etc. One minor thing I'm confused on in your description: In steps 13 and 14, you refer us to step 8 on how much butter/water to add. Yet, step 8 says, "Dust with about 1/4 teaspoon of the spiced sugar mixture." If the butter/water amount is comparable to how much oil/water one would add at the appropriate time w/traditional gyoza, no worries - I'm all set. If it's different, please let me know! Again, this is impressive and creative take on gyoza - Well done, Marc!

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    10. Marc Matsumoto says

      May 17, 2016 at 7:11 am

      Hi Aiko, Thanks! Sorry for the confusion, but this was a typo, it should say "step 12".

      Reply
    11. Karen says

      May 21, 2020 at 11:14 am

      I was thinking to replace the flour with custard powder. Is the flour for thickening the sugars as they dissolve?

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      • Marc Matsumoto says

        May 21, 2020 at 11:24 am

        Hi Karen, that's exactly what it's for. As long as your custard flour doesn't contain milk (which would curdle), it should work fine for thickening the juices from the apples.

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        • Karen says

          May 21, 2020 at 12:19 pm

          Thanks Marc

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    12. Kathy Stroup says

      March 10, 2023 at 1:19 pm

      I need more sweet gyoza variations! Have you ever had the Mexican pumpkin pies? Empanadas de Calabaza are one of my favorite Mexican pastries. Maybe Kabocha gyozas? The filling for the empanadas is fairly thick and pasty, not like a pumpkin custard. It only has squash, piloncillo, and cinnamon. It might work in a gyoza. Maybe drizzled with a sake caramel sauce and served with whipped cream.

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      • Marc Matsumoto says

        March 13, 2023 at 1:53 am

        I haven't had pumpkin empanadas, but I like the sound of that! If I did a kabocha gyoza, I'd probably deep fry them and dust with cinnamon and kokutou (Japanese brown sugar). 🤔

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