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This Italian staple can be packed with any combination of meat, cheese, and vegetables.

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This dim sum classic is a Cantonese barbecue feast tucked away in a fluffy, chewy bun.

▲Manti dumplings were reportedly adopted by Turks who traveled across Central Asia during the Mongol Empire. They can be filled with any kind of meat, and are often served with yogurt and spiced with red pepper.

▲What separates xiao long bao from other steamed Chinese dumplings is the way the skin is pinched at the top, and that a small piece of aspic is folded into the dumpling, which melts and gives it its nickname: "soup dumpling."

▲One of Slovakia's national dishes, these potato dumplings are often served with bryndza, a Slovakian sheep cheese, and sprinkled with bacon or pork fat.

▲This steamed fish dumpling, served with vegetables and peanut sauce, is an Indonesian street food, best sampled from vendors with steamers on their bicycles.

▲These Mongolian steamed dumplings are usually filled with a mixture of garlic and ground beef or lamb.

▲China’s wontons have a thin skin and are served in a broth, though they are sometimes also deep-fried. The Hong Kong-style wonton typically has a thicker skin and holds shrimp.

▲These savory Russian dumplings, often filled with meat and mushrooms, look like the love child of tortellini and pierogies.

▲These potato dumplings can be found across Germany, usually as a side dish. The Bavarian version adds a crouton filling.

▲These Polish staples of comfort food are typically stuffed with potato and cheese and served with sour cream, though they can also have minced meat, fruit, or sauerkraut. They're boiled first, then pan-fried in butter with onions.

▲Also called "shrimp bonnets," these traditional steamed Cantonese dumplings use translucent wrappers around shrimp, bamboo shoots, scallions, and grated ginger.

▲Greece’s little cheese-filled triangles are crispy, flaky pockets of joy.

▲The tapioca flour wrapping of these Vietnamese pork and shrimp dumplings give it a translucent look and chewy texture.

▲This Taiwanese street snack is a staple of night markets. The rice flour, corn starch, and sweet potato wrapper holds a stuffing of pork, bamboo shoots, and mushrooms. The dumplings are then served with a sweet and savory sauce.

▲Malta's baked, crispy take on dumplings are typically filled with ricotta (pastizzi tal-irkotta) or mashed peas (pastizzi tal-piżelli).

▲Similar to the Polish pierogi, the uszka (meaning "little ears" in Polish) is usually filled with minced meat and mushrooms, and served in borscht soup.

▲Korea's take on dumplings are often folded into circular shapes and filled with kimchi, a technique rarely found in Chinese cuisine.

▲Momos are dumplings largely found in Nepalese and Tibetan cuisine. They can be filled with meat, vegetables, or cheese, and are usually served with a tomato-based dipping sauce.

▲This traditional German dish is filled with sausage meat, spinach, bread crumbs, onions, herbs, and various spices.

▲Closely related to Chinese pot stickers (jiaozi), Japanese gyoza tend to be made with thin wrappers and filled with minced pork. They can be steamed, boiled, or pan-fried.

▲Often called the “Jewish ravioli,” this Eastern European dumpling uses a thin dough made of flour and egg. It's filled with various meats or potatoes, folded into a triangle shape, and served in chicken soup.

▲The savory British hand pie is traditionally filled with beef, carrot, and potato.

▲Usually triangular in shape, samosas are a deep-fried snack filled with spiced potato, onions, peas, lentils, and ground lamb. They're most popular in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

▲These savory South American delights are spicy, juicy, and crispy. There are also numerous variations of stuffings depending on where you are, from tuna fish to chicken and beyond.

▲These Czech fruit dumplings have a dough made from egg, flour, butter, and milk, which is wrapped around a small whole fruit. They’re then boiled, sprinkled with butter and sugar, and served with quark, which is a curd cheese.

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This Jewish snack can be found across Eastern Europe, and is filled with mashed potato, ground meat, sauerkraut, onions, and/or cheese. They're covered in a heavy dough and either baked or deep-fried.

▲Instead of filling the dumpling with potato, potatoes become the dumpling wrapper in this Peruvian dish, which is typically filled with ground meat.

▲These dumplings are considered the national cuisine of Georgia. Stuffed with spiced meat, cheese, and herbs, the characteristic khinkali is formed by gathering the pleats of the wrapper at the top and boiling it.

▲These hearty Swedish mashed potato dumplings are stuffed with an allspice-flavored mix of bacon and onions, and served with lingonberry sauce and butter. Other popular versions of this are the Pitepalt from Piteå, Sweden, which is stuffed with minced meat.

▲Everyone loves dumplings, because who in their right mind could hate a warm, doughy pocket of flavorful veggies, gooey cheese, and aromatic meat?

Plus, there's a dumpling for practically every culture and palate. You can have them steamed, boiled, pan-fried, baked, deep-fried, and you can even have some raw.

From Italian to Nepalese cuisine, the dumpling can simply do no wrong.

Check out this gallery to take a tour through this marvel of world cuisine, the perfect combination of simple and complex, the local and global snack, the cheap, easy, and dependable staple of dreams: the dumpling.

▲This Brazilian street food staple has a thick dough and is filled with shredded chicken. The dumplings are molded into a shape meant to resemble a chicken leg (coxinha means “little thigh”) and then deep-fried.

Mouthwatering dumplings from around the world

Tour the world from the comfort of doughy pockets of warmth

07/11/24 por StarsInsider

FOOD World cuisine

Everyone loves dumplings, because who in their right mind could hate a warm, doughy pocket of flavorful veggies, gooey cheese, and aromatic meat?

Plus, there's a dumpling for practically every culture and palate. You can have them steamed, boiled, pan-fried, baked, deep-fried, and you can even have some raw.

From Italian to Nepalese cuisine, the dumpling can simply do no wrong.

Check out this gallery to take a tour through this marvel of world cuisine, the perfect combination of simple and complex, the local and global snack, the cheap, easy, and dependable staple of dreams: the dumpling.