Cooking Tasks for Children
Dumplings! (The minced meat fried with vegetables wrapped in dough kind)
It's a tradition for many families to make dumplings together at the holidays, which in many cases, are when family reunions take place. It's really common to see children helping out, as there is usually a task for everyone.
Your children can help you with the dough, as it's very hard to mess up. Simply measure some flour, salt &amp; water (we don't even measure in my household), knead, and you're good to go. While the dough is in progress, either being kneaded or resting in a covered post, you can make the filling. Not much to it, just seasoned minced meat stir-fried with finely diced vegetables.
When the dough and filling are all set, the fun begins!

You roll out the dough into multiple narrow log-shaped portions, and constantly slice the logs forming cylindrical chunks.

With each slice, you pass the chunk onto the next section of the &quot;production line&quot;, well dusted with flour, where your 6 year-old can roll out the cylinder into a flat circle.

With each rolled out dumpling wrapper, your 9 year-old can scoop some filling onto the center of the wrapper, fold the wrapper around the filling like a taco, and seal by pinching the edges of the wrapper with their fingers (or with a fork).


Of course, your children won't be able to keep up with your slicing, so you can transition to rolling out the dough or wrapping dumplings here and there.