Binging with Babish: Pizza Gyoza from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[Music] it's like i got a one-way ticket to flavorville this is really good too you know hey what's up guys welcome back to binging with bavish where this week we're taking a look at the pizza gyoza from the 2012 iteration of the teenage mutant ninja turtles animated series first thing we got to do is figure out how to put some pizza flavors inside of these gyoza wrappers i'm thinking a flavorful medley of about six ounces of whole pepperoni that i'm cutting up into one inch chunks and processing in a food processor until it resembles little uh chunks of pepperoni and then i'm gonna add eight ounces of full fat low moisture mozzarella along with about a half teaspoon of oregano and a small handful of tore up fresh basil leaves then we're going to pulse this mixture together until it forms a rough paste with still visible big old chunks of mozzarella it should clump together when pressed lightly and taste pleasurable when put into the mouth so there's our gyoza filling now we just have to contend with making gyoza if you want to see a more comprehensive tutorial on how to make gyoza wrappers and fold them up click the link in the upper right hand corner right now but generally speaking we're taking about a tablespoon of filling placing it in the center of a wrapper wetting one side with water and folding decoratively into gyoza as you can see these ones aren't perfect but i'm not here to reinforce unrealistic gyoza standards the last thing missing in our pizza kiyosa equation is a dipping sauce so into a small saucepan i'm combining one 28 ounce can of whole san marzano tomatoes that have pureed a couple sprigs of fresh basil a couple cloves of garlic kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste and a teaspoon of dried oregano bring everybody up to a simmer let it cook maybe like 20 minutes until the flavors have mellowed out a little bit and it's thickened set that aside and keep it warm whilst we prepare our dumplings couple tablespoons of oil and a large non-stick or carbon steel skillet get it nice and hot plop in our little dumpers let them sit there for one to two minutes until they have a nice brown crust pour about a half cup water over top cover them up and let them steam until the wrappers are soft and the fillings are heated through anywhere from three to five minutes depending on i don't know stuff let the water fully evaporate and these guys should lift right off the pan inspect their bottoms to make sure that they are burnished and just like that it's time to serve i don't know why i'm using my hands to plate these up instead of chopsticks hindsight is 20 20. ladle some sauce into a bowl and there you have it pizza gyoza about as easy to make as they are good to eat that is to say very and berry a little bit of crisp on the bottom is great and very necessary when you've got all these sort of gummy cheesy components but i'm wondering if we can't incorporate more of that pizza crisp not to mention flatness so i think that our answer lies in a gyoza skirt basically we're prepping our gyoza the exact same way but when it comes time to add our steaming liquid we're using a slurry of a half cup of water tiny whisk together with one teaspoon of cornstarch and half teaspoon of all-purpose flour this ghostly concoction will make a starchy gooey web ensconcing the crispy bottoms of our gyoza once we've let them steam for two to three minutes it's time to let the excess moisture boil off about another two minutes allowing the delicate lacy remains to crisp up and brown then we're inverting this guy onto a plate for a crispier and prettier presentation then this gave me the idea to basically treat the gyoza skirt like a pizza but the holes in my first iteration were a little bit too big and doily like so here comes some steaming liquid with double the flour and cornstarch which i hope will reward us with a more substantial skirt and at first it looked a little creepy and ectoplasmic but in the end it did yield a skirt with smaller holes more of a shear rather than a fishnet i know that you knew that there was a clothing analogy coming it just took me a while to get there so anyway now that we've got our nice flat skirt we're going to reinforce it with some parmesan cheese hit it with some of our tomato sauce spread that nice and evenly using an offset spatula load this guy up with shredded low moisture mozzarella cheese and of course roni peps i've got this on an oven safe plate that i'm gonna place into the oven 400 degrees fahrenheit for about five minutes until all the cheese is melted and not ideal looking but it's about as close as i'm gonna get to an actual gyoza pizza but how's it taste and the answer is well drippy pretty oily pretty cheesy still surprisingly crisp a little spicy from the pepperoni with a nice thin chewy wrapper i like to imagine that i was channeling mikey this seems like something he would have dreamt up along with touching the still very very hot plate and here's the part where raph makes fun of me and splinter gives me a ninja life lesson [Music] you

Channel: Babish Culinary Universe

Views: 1,701,986

Rating: 4.9616833 out of 5

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Id: ah5G2EXKgvA

Length: 4min 40sec (280 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 08 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/MrCharismatist]

Totino's Pizza rolls. This is what he's made.

Disclaimer, I am absolutely here for this.

[u/selloboy]

Interesting, pizza and dumplings are two of my favorite foods but I’m not sure how well they go together

[u/trainercatlady]

hot damn that looks tasty

[u/sl600rt]

Should have deep fried the gyoza instead of the slurry crust. Then hit them up with a fine grating of Pecorino Romano.

[u/RubberFroggie]

Babby's got some competition from u/kirk_d for TMNT dishes.

With that being said, I totally want some fancy pizza rolls.

[u/TheKevinShow]

I get why it was completely necessary for this iteration but I don’t get why there’s so much hype around having a skirt on gyoza. I don’t want mine stuck together.

[u/dub273]

This made me super hungry.

[u/crossoverfan96]

if you think about the gyoza skirt at the end was a literal pizza pizza and whether that's a pun on little caesars or the canadian chain pizza pizza is up to you

[u/IAmAPhysicsGuy]

This reminds me a bit of the local Polish place by me. They make a whole variety of differently filled pierogi, one of which is a pizza filling. (My favorite other than the meat and sauerkraut is their Philly cheese steak filling!)

I bet they would taste pretty similar, but I am definitely interested in trying the lacey bottom on the next batch