A friend of mine who once tried my Chinese steam buns and asked me to write a instruction of how to make it. I am trying here. I hope the instruction I put here would help. If you have any questions, please leave me a comment and I will try my best to answer it.
The step to make the Chinese steam buns like this:
Make a yeast dough ® make the stuffing ® make flat bread dough ® put the stuffing in the flat dough ® wait for water in steamer boiling ® put the buns into steamer ® close the steamer ® keep steamer on oven at high heating 30 minutes ® turn off the oven and open the steamer, buns are ready to serve!
1) To make yeast dough
Using a big salver (container) which can keep at least 1.5 gallon of water. Put 2 table spoon of yeast in the container
- Put about 500ml (or 1/8 gallon) of warm water (40 degree centigrade or as your hand can tolerate) in to the container
- Add 3-5 cups of all purpose flour in to the container and using a fork to stir the flour in to the water until they look like porridge ( thicker or thinner are all OK), we call it the beginner dough
- Let the container sits in someplace warm: not too cold, not too warm ( too keep the correct temperature to be able to wake the yeast up) for half hour or more
- Once you see the porridge like beginner dough have some bubbles raise, you may put more flour (4-5 cups or more) in to the container and start to make a dough
- The dough should be soft and the shape is easily changed by hands
- Put the dough in a warm place like before and let it sitting there for another hour or more
- Once the dough raises as twice as its original site, it is ready to use.
2) Use cooking spry on the steamer so it will not be sticky
3) To make the stuffing
Get one onion, one clove of garlic, one table spoon size of ginger and 2 jalepeno hot pepper as you desired and clean them up- Get all above in to food processor and chop them to small pieces and put in a plat to be used
- Clean some vegetables (like one zucchini, couple carrots and 3 celery sticks) you like and ground them to small pieces and put aside to be used
- Fry 4-6 eggs or one box of tofu and then chop them as small pieces if you are vegetarian
- Ground half pound of meat as your choice if you like to eat meat
- Mix all the grounded mean or eggs or tofu with the vegetables and the grounded onion, garlic, ginger and poppers together, add 2tsp salt, 1tsp 5 specie powders and any other flavors you like, Add ¼ cup of soy sauce as you desired to make the stuffing smells good. Mix them well, add 1tsp sesame oil in to it, and stir them again.
- When the stuffing smells good, it is ready to be used.
4) To make the Buns
- Cut the yeast dough as small pieces like Ping-Pong balls
. Use roller to roll the Ping-Pong ball dough to a round flat bread
Pick up the flat bread and put 1 table spoon of the stuffing in to it
Close the flat bread with stuffing from edge to center and the bun is ready
Keep going and make as many as your dough can
5) Boil half pan of water for your steamer
6) Put the buns to the steamer
7) Put the steamer on the boiling water and keep the oven on high, let it steam for 30 minutes
8) Open the steamer and take the buns out and serve!
9) Enjoy!!
