Simple Way to Make Xi'an Steamed Buns in 17 Minutes for Young Wife

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, xi'an steamed buns. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Please the buns into a lined steamer. Add cold water to your wok or steel steamer. Use high fire firstly and then lower the fire after you see the vapor coming.

Xi'an Steamed Buns is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Xi'an Steamed Buns is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook xi'an steamed buns using 32 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Xi'an Steamed Buns:

1. Prepare Filling
2. Make ready Fresh Carrot for texture and color inside optional
3. Get 1/2 lb Pork
4. Make ready 1/4 c Kimchi
5. Get 1 tsp Dark Soy Sauce
6. Get 2 tbsp Ponzu Sauce
7. Take 1 tbsp Honey (Orange blossom if possible)
8. Make ready 1 tsp Chinese All Spice
9. Get Red Chili Flakes to preferred spice
10. Take 1/2 tsp Rice Wine Vinegar
11. Get Plain Dough for Marbled Steam Buns
12. Get 560 g Plain Flour
13. Get 11 g Instant Dry Yeast
14. Make ready 1/2 tsp Salt(optional)
15. Prepare 1 tsp Baking Powder
16. Take 30 g Fine Sugar
17. Take 30 g Vegetable Oil
18. Make ready 320 g Whole Milk
19. Take Darker Dough for Marbled Steamed Buns
20. Make ready 280 g Plain Flour
21. Prepare 5.5 g Instant Dry Yeast
22. Take 1 tsp Baking Ppwder
23. Get 15 g Fine Sugar
24. Make ready 3 pg Vegetable Oil
25. Prepare 160 g Whole Milk
26. Get 1 1/2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
27. Take Dipping Sauce
28. Prepare 1 tbsp Ponzu Sauce
29. Make ready 1 tsp Honey
30. Take Medium Pinch of Kimchi
31. Make ready Pinch Nutmeg
32. Get Pinch Clove

I stuffed it with red bean paste like what I used to eat at home in Singapore and it tastes way better than that. Steamed buns tend to go firm and hard when they are cold. To regain their softness and fluffiness, you can simply reheat them in the steamer. An easy & quick way to make Mantou, Chinese steamed buns.

Steps to make Xi'an Steamed Buns:

1. Combine flour, yeast, baking powder, and sugar in a bowl, sift if preferred, into mixer bowl.
2. Turn on slow speed and gradually add in milk.
3. Mix for 1 minute, then turn speed up and mix for 6 more minutes.
4. Knead dough lightly into a dome shape and then place in a lightly greased bowl with damp towel to cover and let rise for 1 1/2-2 1/2 hours.
5. Combine and repeat above steps for darker dough mixture.
6. Begin making marinade/sauce for pork by combining all sauce ingredients. Let sit for 30 minutes after combined.
7. Begin cooking pork when you have about 10 minutes left for your sauce in a wok or pan at high/med-high heat, breaking into small pieces. Cook until done.
8. Add sauce mixture and cook on high until it coats evenly. Reduce heat and simmer for 3 minutes.
9. After dough has risen, remove from bowl and flatten, folding the top over itself twice, ending with a log.
10. Repeat for darker side of the dough.
11. Cut a small piece of dough from each log, and combine, rolling together. Fold/roll into a spiral, and repeat 3 times.
12. Form dough back into a ball after combined to desired marble, and roll it flat.
13. Once relatively flat, grab and lift one side and begin rolling out, spinning dough as you roll.
14. Place carrot(optional) and pork mixture in the center, and begin pinching the outside together working in a circle motion until completely sealed. Pinch and twist.
15. Form back into ball, then place on parchment paper.
16. Fill steamer basket, and then turn heat on high until boiling, then lower to medium-low and cover with lid for 10-12 minutes depending on size of dumpling. (Cover glass and metal lids with towel to prevent condensation drips.
17. Let sit in pan for 2 minutes, then carefully remove.
18. Enjoy your perfectly made Xi'an inspired Steamed Buns!

My detailed instructions and tutorial video will help you to succeed. Once Xi had finished his shift, he joined a few of the patrons in sharing the buns he had worked so hard to sell. Xi Jinping's weekend visit to the restaurant was an unusual display of normality for a Chinese communist ruler and is reported to have unleashed a media storm. Steamed buns are made from wheat flour and leavening agents and have a spongy feel. They are steamed on large perforated trays of bamboo or steel, usually stacked over a large wok of boiling water so that the steam rises through the trays.

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