Sha Momo

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1. 1Step 1: Put the flour in a large bowl, make a well in the center. Slowly add the water, and start mixing it with the flour – use just enough water for the dough to hold. Then knead until it is firm but supple. The more you knead the better the dough.
2. 2Step 2: In a large bowl, add the meat, chopped veggies and rest of ingredients and mix it thoroughly. Best to use your hands and dig into the bowl and gently mix it all up really well. Adding some water, and the celery and greens will add to making juicy momos.
3. 3Step 3: Divide the dough into four parts.
4. 4Step 4: Traditional method: Take one portion and make it into a long roll. Then pinch off small portions from one end. Shape each portion, rolling them in both your palms into a ball shape. Then flatten each ball and using a rolling pin, shape them into approximately 3"-3 1/2" round flat round circle. This is your momo skin.
5. 5Step 5: Or Easy Method: Take one portion of the dough, roll it out thin and flat as big as you can get. It shouldn't be too thin but it shouldn't be thick either. Then, using an approximately 3" – 3 1/2" round cookie cutter (or suitable sized cup or glass turned upside down), cut out the momo skins.
6. 6Step 6: Take one piece of flattened dough, add a spoonful of your mixture and then shape your momos, starting from one end, close the skin together from side to side. The point is to try and not overlap the skin too much so that you don't end up with a thick layer of folded dough on the top. This part takes some practice.
7. 7Step 7: Oil your steamer tray, and line up the momos in the tray close enough but not touching. Add water to steamer bottom and once it boils, stack up the steamer trays on it.
8. 8Step 8: Steaming momos usually takes anywhere from 12 – 15 minutes depending on the size of your momos, strength of your stove burner and where you are – remember altitude counts – water boiling point is lower at sea level than at higher elevations so you need to increase cooking time.
9. 9Step 9: How to tell if your momo is done: Lift the lid and check the steam, if it's dry, momos are done … if it's wet then they aren't.
10. 10Step 10: Take the lid off and touch one of the momos with your fingertips .. if it's sticky, it still needs steaming – if it's not, then it should be done.
11. 11Step 11: Third fool proof method – Just take one momo out, cut it open and check if it's really done!!!