Steps to Prepare Xi'an Steamed Buns in 27 Minutes for Beginners

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, xi'an steamed buns. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. 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 recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Xi'an Steamed Buns is something which I have loved my entire life.

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 that.

The ingredients needed to make Xi'an Steamed Buns:

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