Vietnamese Steamed Buns (Banh Bao)
- Dough
- 4 cups self rising flour
- 1 cup milk
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- Filling
- 2 links Chinese sausage, thinly sliced
- 5 hard-boiled eggs, cut into 1 ", pieces
- 1/2 lb barbecued pork (optional)
- 2 lbs ground pork
- 10 dried shiitake mushrooms
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons oyster sauce
- Submerge mushroom in hot water until softened. Take them out, dry and finely juliene. Reserve water.
- Heat some oil in a skillet, put in onions and let it sweat for a while. Stir in the rest of filling except boiled eggs and BBQ pork. Season with fish sauce and pepper to taste.
- Add sugar to milk to dissolve. Add flour one cup at a time, after each time kneed the dough before adding the next cup. Put dough into a large mixing bowl, put a damp cheese cloth over to prevent drying out.
- Cut a handful of dough (size to your choice), roll out thin (use bread roller or the smaller dumpling roller). Add a spoonful of filling, 1 piece of egg, BBQ pork. Seal dough tight around filling and put on a cut-out piece of parchment paper. Steam buns for about 15 minutes. These buns freeze pretty well as well, if you want to make a big batch at a time.
dough, flour, milk, white sugar, filling, links chinese sausage, eggs, barbecued pork, ground pork, shiitake mushrooms, onion, oyster sauce
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/vietnamese-steamed-buns-banh-bao-115551 (may not work)