Homemade Nikuman Pork Buns
Homemade Nikuman Pork Buns

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, homemade nikuman pork buns. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Homemade Nikuman Pork Buns is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Homemade Nikuman Pork Buns is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

My mom used to buy packaged steamed buns from the store and they tasted pretty good as I remembered. I never thought this dish is something we could make at home until I visited my high school friend's house for lunch years ago. She made homemade nikuman for us and I was very impressed that she made the pork buns from scratch.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook homemade nikuman pork buns using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Nikuman Pork Buns:
  1. Get To prepare the nikuman dough:
  2. Take 200 grams Flour (cake flour)
  3. Take 5 grams Dry yeast
  4. Take 2 tbsp Sugar
  5. Make ready 1/2 tsp Salt
  6. Make ready 1 tbsp Vegetable oil
  7. Take 110 ml Lukewarm water (approx. 40℃)
  8. Make ready To prepare the nikuman filling:
  9. Prepare 100 grams Ground pork
  10. Prepare 50 grams Cooked bamboo shoots (brined)
  11. Get 1/2 Japanese leek
  12. Make ready 1 tbsp Soy sauce
  13. Make ready 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine (or Japanese sake)
  14. Take 1 tbsp Sesame oil
  15. Take 1/2 tbsp Oyster sauce
  16. Take 1/2 tsp Grated ginger
  17. Take 1/2 tsp Grated garlic
  18. Get 1 tsp Chicken soup stock granules
  19. Make ready 1 pinch Pepper

You can use yeast only to make Xiaolongbao. TRADITIONAL JAPANESE RECIPE: Nikuman are Japanese steamed hot buns with ground pork filling virtually sold everywhere in Japan. Nikuman was originally introduced to Japan as chukaman (Chinese-style steamed bun). We are making Japanese freshly steamed pork bun Nikuman, a perfect recipe for those cold days.

Instructions to make Homemade Nikuman Pork Buns:
  1. Add all of the ingredients for the nikuman dough except for the vegetable oil and lukewarm water, and give everything a quick mix.
  2. Whilst mixing the dough with your hand, add the lukewarm water little by little. Next, add the vegetable oil and mix once more.
  3. Tip the dough out of the bowl and knead with your hands. Once smooth, form into a ball, return to the bowl and leave it to prove for 30 minutes whilst covered with a damp cloth.
  4. Finely chop the onion and bamboo shoots into fairly large pieces.
  5. In a separate bowl, add combine all of the nikuman filling ingredients and mix it evenly.
  6. Once the dough has proved, form it into a roughly 40-cm long thin strip and separate into 8 equal pieces.
  7. Roll out each piece of dough into an approximate 10-cm diameter oval shape. Make the center of the dough a bit thicker than the edges to prevent tearing.
  8. Place the filling in the middle of the dough and wrap the dough around whilst creating the nikuman pleats.
  9. Once wrapped, cover the pork buns with a damp cloth and prove for a second time for 15 minutes.
  10. Place the buns in a prepared steamer and steam for 15 minutes to complete.

Homemade dough and meat mixture are the best! Perfect food for cold wintry days and chilly memories of charming Prague where sub-zero temperatures resulted in lots of coffee and hot chocolate. I am glad to be home. Nikuman (肉まん; derived from 肉饅頭 niku (meat) manjū) is a savoury Japanese food made from flour dough, and filled with cooked ground pork or other […] Hold it in place and pull the remaining sides of the dough upwards to meet the top centre of the bun while twisting the top to help seal the top of the bun. Continue doing this to all sides of the dough until the filling is completely concealed in the bun.

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