Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, steamed buns. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
These steamed buns are exactly like the ones I can buy at the chinese supermarket bakeries (T&T). They are slightly chewy and VERY light almost "airy". The larger sized buns were much easier to work with and much tastier.
Steamed Buns is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Steamed Buns is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have steamed buns using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Steamed Buns:
- Take Prep time 3 hours
- Prepare Cook time 30 mnts
- Take Total time 3 hrs 30 mnts
- Prepare 14 Yields
- Get Dough:
- Get 350 gm flour
- Take 1 tsp yeast
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Prepare Water
- Get Filling:
- Make ready 1/2 kg chicken mince
- Take 2 tbsp vinegar
- Get 2 tbsp dark soy sauce
- Prepare 1 tbsp red chilli powder
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Make ready 1/4 cup cabbage shredded
- Make ready 1 medium carrot cut into thin julian
- Take 1 onion grated (squeeze out excess water)
- Make ready 1 tbsp grated garlic
- Prepare 1 tbsp grated ginger
There are many variations in fillings (meat or vegetarian) and preparations, though the buns are most often steamed. They are a variation of mantou from Northern China. Chinese steamed buns can be stuffed with various types of fillings or unstuffed. Those stuffed steamed buns are called as Baozi in Chinese (Bao Buns) and those without fillings are called as mantou.
Instructions to make Steamed Buns:
- Prepare all your ingredients. Knead a soft firm dough and let it rest for 3 hours.
- Squeeze out all excess water from the mince before adding any spice. Marinate the mince with all the listed ingredients and keep aside. Take out the dough after 3 hours, knead it again into a round ball.
- Portion the dough into 14 small balls. Keep it cover with a samp cloth to prevent it from drying out. Take each ball and roll out to the size of your palm as shown. Fill in the center with the filling and shape it as shown in the link provided https://www.youtube.com/watch?bhi=ttkOAVfVSi8
- On the steamer plate, lay out cupcake liners and place the buns on top of each. Steam them for about 30 minutes and serve with soy and chilli oil (Recipe provided earlier)
Mantou(馒头) is a basic staple in northern part of China and served in every places of China not just the northern part. Poke dough down to deflate and transfer to a lightly floured surface. Cut dough in half and roll each half into a long tube. Traditional Chinese steamed buns are round in shape with an enclosed filling, either with char siu pork or a traditional ground pork mixture with slices of Chinese lap cheong sausage and boiled egg. Steamed buns can also be made plain, i.e. without any filling.
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