Recipe: Yummy Bao buns with spicy filling

Bao buns with spicy filling. Tasty, juicy filling with soft, fluffy wrappers, homemade bao buns are super comforting! Popular as street food and an everyday family dish in China, steamed bao buns (Baozi, 包子) is one of the foods I really enjoy cooking. Vegan steamed bao buns filled with spicy cauliflower and creamy Sriracha.

Bao buns are a type of filled bun or bread-like in various Chinese cuisines. This recipe will help you achieve the pillowy, fluffy, dreamlike Bao buns which. Bao means Buns so calling it bao buns doesn't make sense but it is such a cute name! You can cook Bao buns with spicy filling using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bao buns with spicy filling

1. Prepare of For Bao:.
2. Prepare 90 ml of warm water.
3. Prepare 5 g of yeast.
4. It's 1 tbls of veg oil.
5. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
6. Prepare 1 tbls of caster sugar.
7. It's 1 tbls of milk.
8. Prepare 175 g of tipo 00 flour.
9. Prepare of Salt.
10. Prepare of For the filling:.
11. It's 100 g of pork fillet, diced / 100g minced quorn (200g total).
12. It's 1/2 tbls of sesame oil.
13. You need 1 of spring onion, finely chopped.
14. Prepare 1 1/2 tbls of hoisin sauce.
15. You need 1/2 tbls of soy sauce.
16. You need 1 tbls of clear honey.
17. You need 1/4 tsp of Chinese 5 spice.
18. You need 1/4 tsp of chilli flakes.
19. Prepare 1/2 tsp of cornflour dissolved in 1/2 tbls rice wine vinegar.

Bao is steamed buns and it can be many different shapes and. My bao bun recipe is fool proof, so fluffy it's ridiculous. Combine warm water, milk, active yeast, sugar and oil. This bao bun recipe makes light, fluffy and pillowy steamed buns which are perfect for stuffing with your favourite fillings.

Bao buns with spicy filling step by step

1. Mix water and yeast, add oil..
2. Put all other ingredients in bowl and mix, add yeast mix and knead for 10 mins until dough is soft. Put dough in oiled bowl and cover in warm place for 2-3 hours.
3. Heat oil in pan and fry meat/quorn until browned - about 6 minutes. Add spring onions and sauté for a minute. Add hoisin and soy sauces, then honey, 5 spice, chilli flakes and cornflour mix. Simmer for 5 minutes then transfer to a bowl and chill..
4. Knock dough back and lightly knead for a minute. Cut in half and cut each half in to 8 pieces (16 in total). Press each piece in to flat circles about 3" or 7.5cms wide..
5. Put circle of dough in palm of hand and add 1 tsp of filling. Bring the sides up and pinch together. Have cut circles of grease-proof paper and place Bao on circle, sealed side down. Continue for all 16 Bao. Put all on baking tray not near each other! Lease to rise for 30 mins.
6. Get steamer on the go and when hot add Bao 3 or 4 at a time to steamer. 10-12 mins. Serve straight away with chilli sauce, soy sauce, sweet chilli with hot sauce..

You can use this recipe to shape the bao You can use this recipe for filled or stuffed bao buns. Once you have rolled out the buns, simply fill and shape the buns, and then leave. Gua Bao - fluffy Bao buns stuffed with tender sticky pork belly. I'll show you how to make it from scratch, in my step-by-step recipe. These are pretty large Bao buns (you can see in the pic below that they completely fill my hand), so one is probably enough for dinner.