Delicious Buns, based on Chinese cooking, are Bao and easy to make. My family love these buns. The steamed bun was my favourite and still is, especially the one with meat filling, even though the sweet one is delicious too.
September Steamed Buns
Bao Bun Dough
300g plain flour
150g water1 1/2 teaspoon dry yeast
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
Basically, what you have to do, mix all ingredients together to make the dough
Knead the dough until soft and smooth
Place in a warm place and proof it for one hour, until it is double
Punch the dough down, knead lightly, and divide the dough into ten pieces.
Shape them into round balls, and they are ready to be filled with the filling.
Or you could have the plain buns with no filling. Shape, and rest the buns for a few minutes
Steam them for 12 minutes
Note:
Savoury filling, I like using roast meat pork, diced thinly and spiced with white pepper and sweet soy. It is a delicious pork flavour.
Sweet filling: black bean paste, can be bought at the Asian Grocery store.
The Buns with Filling
These buns filled with sweet pork
Clear Soup to accompany the Bun.
The warm weather in springtime is the perfect weather to enjoy a clear soup with the dumpling. Soups and buns, I never get enough, the dishes are influenced by Chinese cooking. The bun is steamed, and the soup is the clear broth with the dumplings/meatballs. Two types of meatballs dumplings I do, one contains lots of meat and add white egg, and the other one contains less meat, and more starch adds a whole egg.
Susy Meat Balls Dumpling.
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| The meatballs ingredients |
45 g arrowroot flour
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
(Place all ingredients in a food processor, mix them well to make a smooth and sticky paste)
2 litter light meat stock
To cook the meatballs - the dumplings
Put the stock in a pot, put on a medium-hot stovetop, bring it to simmer
With wet fingers, shape the meat paste to small balls, as large as a walnut.
Put them in the hot simmer stock, cook them until they are floating to the top
Get them out and place the meatballs on a clean bowl
Do the rest of the meat paste to make the meatballs until it's finished
You will make at 24 meatballs
In this stage, wait until cool, keep some of them in an airtight container to freeze if you wish.
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| The meat paste mixture for the meatballs dumpling |
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| Shaping the meatballs before boiling |
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| Boiling - cooking the meatballs |
Serving the soup
Bring stock to a simmer, put the cooked meatballs dumpling in
Keep on cooking in lower heat, let them stay for 30 minutes or longer.
The meatballs dumpling will be floating during the cooking, and when you cut the meatball in half, will show a pinkish colour in the middle. It is so soft but scrumptiously delicious.
Place the meatballs dumplings in a bowl, ladle in the broth, garnish with chopped coriander leaf or flat parsley and sprinkle with fried shallots on top.
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Today it is raining in my town, a rainy spring day is a time to have the soup. But no 'bao' today instead Rice Noodles roll. It's an accidental dish because my preparation of the fried rice noodles was far too salty. Such beautiful fresh ingredients I prepared with; indeed, I could save it. Here it was the Rice Noodle Roll was Born.
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| Sliced Rice Noodle Roll served with Chilli, Fresh Cucumbers. |
A delicious little treat, enough carbohydrate and protein. So good.
The Process
Slice to Eight and Served with a Sauce and Pickled.
People this day have high concerned about eating well, it is essential to have healthy food. It is modern and civilised living. I do agree, eating right and healthy is a must. We have plenty of supplies for having the perfect healthy food that we want. Motivation and goal will support us all to achieve.
To keep up with cooking healthy food is the way to go, and remember, they are delicious!
A Quote for Today:
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the most significant wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha
A rainy day today, but the cool breeze is fresh. To be outside is alright.
Susy
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