Chinese Steamed Buns (馒头)
Ingredients
- 300g all-purpose flour
- 1.5 teaspoon instant yeast
- 2 tablespoons sugar (optional)
- 150g water or 20ml more if needed
- a tiny pinch of salt (around 1.5% of the dough)
Steps
- Add ingredients
- Stir using chopsticks
- Use hand to knead dough
- Till dough's surface becomes smooth
- Put dough into container, use wet tower cover it up
- First rising, until double size (can be 1 hour, 3 hours, or even longer. Such as overnight in refrigerator)
- Knead dough till it become normal size
- Separate it into smaller pieces
- Put them into steam box resting for 10 minutes
- Set up steamer with cold water
- Boiling
- Steam 18-20 minutes after boiling
- Turn off fire
- Wait for 5 minutes
- Pick them up
References
Chinese Steamed Buns (Mantou)