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Crunchy kale and turkey dumplings Take your Thanksgiving ingredients and try something new:

- 1 pound ground turkey - 2 stalks of kale, de-stemmed and chopped - 2 stalks of celery, finely diced - 1 bunch of scallions, chopped - 1/2 vidalia onion, finely diced - 1 teaspon freshly minced ginger - 3 tablespoons of soy sauce - 2 tablespoons of sesame oil - Cracked pepper - 1 egg

Mix all the ingredients and get wrapping. Steam or pan fry dumplings for a crunchy and healthy dumpling. Enjoy!

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We recently made a trip to Oriental Garden on Elizabeth St. in Chinatown for dim sum. Oriental Garden is known best for seafood, but what most reviews miss out on is their wide array of dumpling varieties. In fact, as witnessed, they have more than an entire page on their menu dedicated to dumplings.

We had a traditional Chinese Wedding (which means 14 full family-style courses) to go to shortly after dim sum, so we unfortunately could not try every single variety (and trust me, we would have tried), but we did have a few of the seafood varieties, including shrimp, seafood, and a mixed shrimp and pork.

The verdict? Overall, fairly good dumplings. The thin wrappers on the seafood dumplings were a bit over-steamed, but the fillings had good texture and were light enough to get that extra order.