Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, basic steamed bun. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Use this dough to make steamed filled buns (baozi or bao), unfilled steamed buns (mantou), baked Chinese cocktail buns, and other basic Chinese bun recipes. This recipe reprinted with permission from "Chinese Cooking (Company's Coming)" by Jean Pare , uses bread flour, which has a high protein and gluten content to help the bread rise and take. These steamed buns are exactly like the ones I can buy at the chinese supermarket bakeries (T&T).
Basic Steamed Bun is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Basic Steamed Bun is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have basic steamed bun using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Basic Steamed Bun:
- Prepare 50 grams Cake flour
- Take 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Sugar
- Take 50 grams Milk
Gather the edges of the dough up and around the filling and give it a twist to close. While you can buy mantou buns from Chinese grocery stores or restaurants, they are very easy to make at home. Use another quarter to half cup of flour for kneading as the original dough was a bit sticky. Chinese steamed buns can be stuffed with various types of fillings or unstuffed.
Steps to make Basic Steamed Bun:
- Boil water to steam as soon as possible. (I don’t have steamer so I added 2 cups of water in an earthen pot and boiled.)
- Mix cake flour, baking powder and sugar in a bowl. If you stir them with whisk, you don’t have to sift.
- Pour milk and combine quickly then transfer to cupcake holders.
- Steam for 10 minutes and they're ready!
- The steamed buns at the front in this picture are plain. The steamed buns at the back have ground sesame seeds.
- Without sugar and milk, this one has got carrot juice Very colorful This one is for my baby.
Those stuffed steamed buns are called as Baozi in Chinese (Bao Buns) and those without fillings are called as mantou. Mantou(馒头) is a basic staple in northern part of China and served in every places of China not just the northern part. The Easy Way to Make Soft, Airy Chinese Steamed Buns Steamed buns: pockets of steamy goodness, just waiting for you to fill them with tender meats, pickled vegetables, fresh herbs, and ooey-gooey. This is a basic recipe for making the steamed bun dough used in Char Siu Bao. If you're craving dim sum buns, no need to go to the store, make them at home with this easy recipe!
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