Chicken Bakpao/ steam bun

Portion: 8 buns
Cooking and prep time: 2 hours

Tool:
Scale
Steamer
Bowl
Spatula
Pan
8 cupcake papers/ parchment papers

Ingredients:
Steam bun
300 gr plain flour
60 gr corn flour
100 gr icing sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp yeast
175 ml cold water
30 gr butter (white butter if possible but standard yellow butter is fine too)

Filling
1 garlic – crushed
2 shallots or 1 small red onion – chopped thinly
1 spring onion
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 white pepper
300 gr chicken
150 gr raw prawn without shell (optional)
1/2 tbsp oil
1 tbsp kecap manis (sweet spy sauce)*

*) replace kecap manis with
1/4 tsp sugar
1 tbsp spy sauce

How to prepare the dough for the bun?
1. Mix plain flour, corn flour, icing sugar, salt, baking powder and yeast. Remember to keep the salt and yeast in opposite side.

2. Mix the dry ingredients well before adding the water a little bit at a time.

3. Add butter into the dough and mix it well. White butter will make the buns looks whiter. I used yellow butter in this case hence the dough look more yellow in colour.

4. Cover bowl worth cling film or wet cloth.

5. Let the dough rise for around 45 mins or until its double in size.

While waiting for the dough to rise, time to cook the filling.

How to cook the filling?
1. Mince chicken and prawn or chopped them really small. Remember they need to go inside the bun.

2. Heat oil in a pan then add onion, garlic. Cook until onion soft.

3. Add mince chicken (and prawn), salt pepper and kecap manis (or soy sauce + sugar)

4. Once meat cooked add spring onion.

5. Let it cool

Preparing the bun

1. Boil enough water for the steamer

2. Divide the dough into 8 equal pieces.

3. Flatten the individual pieces, add the filling, before gathering the sides to the middle.

4. Turn the bun over when placed on the paper. Showing the smooth side at the top.

5. Add the buns into the steamer. Make sure to leave space in between the bins so that they don’t stick with each other.

6. Steam the nuns for around 30 mins

Tips: if you want to freeze them, put the already filled buns (before steaming) in plastic container. Don’t let them stick to each other. Then steam them when you are ready.

7. Enjoy with ketchup or chilli sauce.