These Turkey Potstickers are one my favorite Asian appetizers to eat and they can be made in the air fryer, a skillet, or an oven. For dipping, I like to use Sweet Chili Sauce, sweet and sour, or soy sauce.
There's a Chinese restaurant a couple of blocks down the street from where I live. They have pretty awesome pork potstickers and today I thought I'd try making them. Every now and then, I will try something I've never made before like these dumplings. I've always liked potstickers. Whenever I go to Trader Joe's, I'd pick up a bag of them in their freezer section. They are so good just heated up with some of their Miso broth as a soup. So, I decided to learn how to make them myself.
The air fryer is one of my favorite kitchen appliances. Check out some of these recipes! Air Fryer Tortilla Chips, Air Fryer Turkey Breast, Air Fryer Turkey Burgers, and Air Fryer Baked Potatoes.
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Ingredients Needed for Potstickers
- Chopped cabbage - Can also use preshredded cabbage coleslaw mix from a bag.
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- Green onion - thinly sliced
- Cilantro - chopped fresh
- Sesame oil
- Soy sauce - Use a Low Sodium or if you don’t have that on hand go for Tamari or Coconut Amino Acids
- 1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar or rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon of ground ginger or fresh ginger
- ⅛ teaspoon of chili pepper flakes.
- 1 small fresh serrano chile pepper (optional)
- ff turkey breast - Can also use ground chicken meat
- Wonton wrappers or dumpling wrappers such as gyozo
- See recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
Dipping Sauce
Use chili oil, low-sodium soy sauce, or make your own dipping sauces for the pot stickers.
How to Make Potstickers in an Air Fryer
Potstickers are pretty time to consuming to make. While making these, I pictured myself working at a Chinese restaurant for a couple of hours during the daytime making potstickers. It's almost kind of relaxing to sit there and make them and I'm pretty sure the restaurant down the street from me, must prep quite a few of them ahead of time for the day. They took me about a good 2 hours to make. This recipe makes a lot of potstickers.
There are two different techniques you have to get down before becoming an expert at potsticker making. One is the filling method. You can't stuff potstickers with too much filling or else you won't' be able to close the dough. I started off with trying a tablespoon of the meat mixture but that was too much, so I went down to a little over a teaspoon. That seemed to be just the right amount.
Air Fryer Settings
Place the dumplings in an even single layer in the air fryer basket. Spray them with cooking spray or olive oil spray. Set the timer for 6 to 8 minutes at 400 degrees.
Tips for using Air Fryers
The air fryer is so great for cooking simple basic food like air fryer steak, air fryer hard-boiled eggs, and air fryer bacon. Cook up some air fryer chicken breasts for the week and use it chicken quesadillas.
Some air fryers require preheating and some do not. Be sure to check your air fryer manual.
Overcrowding: Do not overcrowd the basket. Place items in a single layer in the air fryer basket or some food will not cook properly or all the way through.
Recipe FAQs
What air fryer do I use?
Cosori 4 Qt Air Fryer- This air fryer doesn't require any preheating and has several different functions for cooking chicken, meat, frozen foods, etc. There are 5 different functions.
Set the timer to 400 degrees and cook them for 8 to 10 minutes long. Might have to shake the air fryer basket every once and awhile.
One of the reasons why air fryers are so great is because food doesn’t need a lot of oil. Especially frozen food. Just a small amount is fine or use Cooking Spray.
Do not overcrowd the basket. Place items in a single layer in the air fryer basket or some food will not cook properly or all the way through.
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air fryer turkey potstickers
- Prep Time: 20min
- Cook Time: 6-8
- Total Time: 30 min
- Yield: 28 to 30 1x
- Category: Medium
- Method: Steam
- Cuisine: Asian
Description
These Turkey Potstickers are one my favorite Asian appetizers to eat and they can be made in the air fryer, a skillet, or an oven. For dipping, I like to use Sweet Chili Sauce, sweet and sour, or soy sauce.
Ingredients
- 2 cups of chopped cabbage
- 1 tsp of salt
- 2 tbsp thinly sliced green onion
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 tsp toasted sesame oil
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 tsp of ground ginger or fresh ginger
- ⅛ tsp of chili pepper flakes.
- 1 small fresh serrano chile pepper (optional)
- 8 oz of 99% ff turkey breast
- 28 to 30 wonton wrappers such as gyozo
Instructions
- In a bowl combine all the ingredients from the cabbage to ground turkey. Mix well.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silipat. Place 12 wonton wrappers on the baking sheet and spoon about a teaspoon of the ground turkey mixture in the middle of the wonton wrapper. Lightly brush edge of wrapper with water; fold wrapper in half and pinch edges together. See link above on hold to crimp edges. Plast potsticker sealed side up, on a prepared baking sheet. Keep filled potstickers covered while working. Freeze 1 to 2 hrs or until firm. Transfer to freezer containers and freeze up to 1 month.
- Air Fryer Settings: Place the dumplings in an even single layer in the air fryer basket. Spray them with cooking spray or olive oil spray. Set the timer for 6 to 8 minutes at 400 degrees.
- To serve he a non-stick skillet with a tablespoon of olive oil. Place post stickers on the skillet and cook one side until golden brown. Add water (¼ cup) to the pan and cover to steam. 3 minutes.
Notes
myWW points: Blue Points: 1; Green Points: 1; Purple Points: 1
Nutrition
- Calories: 74
- Sugar: 0
- Fat: 1
- Saturated Fat: 0
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 10
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 6
Jenna says
I have not tried these from frozen yet but if you do let me know how it goes. I would defrost them a bit before air frying them if I did that tho.
Megan says
Hi,
I was going to make them and freeze and then pre-event air fry. Do you have any suggestions for air frying from frozen? Or should I thaw them and then air fry?
Thanks! This recipe was exactly what I was looking for a Friendsgiving.
Jenna says
The steam cooks the turkey.
Meredith says
Hi There
I've just discovered your recipes. They look fantastic. I would like to try the turkey Potstickers. I have 1 question...do you cook the ground turkey first? I have a feeling the turkey might not cook through in such a short time.