Steamed Pork Buns (Bánh Bao)
Easy made from scratch steamed pork buns using flour, milk, sugar, oil and yeast.
Servings: 15
Equipment
- 1 Steamer
Ingredients
Ingredients for the steamed buns:
- 400 grams cake flour
- 130 grams sugar add more if you want the dough to be sweeter.
- 1 tsp vegetable oil
- 2½ tsp yeast
- 250 mL milk warm to 105oF.
Ingredients for the filling:
- 1 pound ground pork you can substitute the pork for ground beef or chicken.
- 1 medium shredded carrot
- ½ chopped white onion
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 tbsp chopped garlic
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- ¼ cup shredded mushroom soak for 8 minutes to soften then coarsely chop.
Instructions
Instructions for making the steamed buns:
- Combine flour, milk, sugar, oil and yeast into a stand mixer bowl equipped with a dough hook.
- Turn the stand mixer on and let it mix until all the ingredients are well combined.
- At this point, the dough will look "wet". Add 1 tbsp of cake flour at a time to the dough until you can easily pull it away from the sides of the bowl without it sticking to your hands. Form the dough into a ball.
- Spread some vegetable oil into another bowl then place the dough ball into the oiled bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap & place the bowl in a warm place to rest until it doubles in size.
- After the dough doubles in size, divide the dough ball into smaller pieces and set the smaller pieces aside while you prepare the filling.
Instructions for the filling:
- Combine the ground pork, shredded carrots, onions, salt, pepper, chopped garlic, oyster sauce and shredded mushroom in a bowl and mix well. Scoop a small piece of this meat mixture on to a pan, fry then give it a taste & adjust the seasonings accordingly if needed.
Instructions for combining the dough and meat:
- Sprinkle some cake flour on a flat surface and using a rolling pin, roll out the small pieces of dough.
- Use an ice cream scoop to scoop the ground meat mixture on to the rolled out dough.
- Start pulling the sides of the dough up until all the meat is enclosed in the dough.
- Continue with this process until all the dough has been filled with the ground meat mixture.
- After all the dough has been filled with meat, cover them and set aside to rest for 1 hour.
Instructions for steaming the pork buns:
- Place water in a pot with a steamer basket on top. Be careful to not let the water touch the steamer basket.
- Place the pork buns inside the steamer basket.
- Wrap a kitchen towel around the lid and place the lid on top of the steamer basket. Turn the heat on medium and let the buns steam for 30 minutes.
- After the 30 minutes, remove the steamed pork buns to cool on a cooling rack & enjoy.