A Cantonese Favorite: 叉燒包 Char
Siu Bun and 豆沙包 Red Bean Bun! While most of the Chinese buns that you might see in dim-sum place are steamed, sometimes you might also see them in baked form. It's a yummy snack that I grew up with and so easy to eat while you are on-the-go. Here's my recipe for making them, they both use the same dough recipe and you can put in the filling that you like.
(Makes 12 buns)
Ingredients for Dough:
1 Egg, room temperature
1.5 cups Water @ 80 degrees F
1/4 cup Vegetable oil
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 tsp salt
4.5 cups Bread Flour
3.5 tsp Active Dry Yeast
To Make the Dough with Bread Machine:
1) Put the liquids in the pan in the following order: Egg, water, vegetable oil.
2) Put in the sugar and salt
3) Put in Bread Flour
4) Put Yeast on top of the Flour
5) Place the pan into the Bread Machine, select Dough Program and start.
To Make the Dough without the Bread Machine:
1) Dissolve the yeast in the warm water.
2) Assemble the dry ingredients in a large bowl: Bread Flour, sugar, salt.
3) Make a well in the middle of the bowl and place the egg and vegetable oil in the well.
4) Pour in the dissolved yeast mixture.
5) Mix and combine until the dough form into a smooth round ball.
6) Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let the dough rise until it doubles in volume.
7) Punch down the dough to deflate it, and reshape the dough into a ball.
*Hint*
1) If you are not using the dough immediately, cover loosely with plastic wrap and place in the fridge. Do not let the dough dry out.
Ingredients for (叉燒) Char
Siu filling:
(*To make Char
Siu yourself, roast 1lb of pork loin in a 350 degree oven for 1 hr, while turning and brushing the meat with char
siu sauce every 15
mins)
2.5 cups of Char
Siu, chopped
3 Tablespoons of Char
Siu sauce (purchase in an
Asian market)
Instruction for making Char
Siu filling:
1) Combine the Char
Siu and the Char
Siu sauce together, set aside.
Ingredients for Red Bean filling:
(You can also buy the red bean filling in an Asian market)
2 cups of red beans, soaked in water for 1 day.
1/2 cup of sugar
5 cups of water
Instructions for making the red bean filling:
1) Put the beans and liquid into a pot, and heat oven medium heat.
2) Stir in the sugar.
3) After reaching to a boil, turn down to low heat and slowly cook until the liquid has almost evaporated and the beans have become mushy. (if the water evaporated before the beans are done, add more water and reduce the heat a little more).
Instruction for making the buns:
2) Divide the dough into 12 pieces.
3) for each piece of the dough, flattened the dough into a disk, and place a spoonful of filling inside.
4) Wrap the dough around the filling and pinch it close, and place the dough on the baking sheet (with the pinched side facing down).
5) After each individual bun is made, beat an egg in a small bowl and brush the egg mixture on the top of each bun.
6) If you'd like, sprinkle some sesame on top of the bun.
7) Place the baking sheet with the buns in the oven set at 350 degrees, bake for about 20
mins until the tops are golden brown.
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