Totoro Steamed buns
We made some steamed buns/mantao together this weekend. Kids just watched My Neighbor Totoro recently and since the color involved looks quite simple so we went ahead with this character bun 😅 Not perfectly shaped but not so bad for our first try 😜 and kid enjoyed the session a lot! Recipe adapted from this […]
Dairy-free Red Bean Steamed buns 豆沙包
After making Chinese red bean pastry, I’m still experimenting with the red bean paste recipe 😅 so I bought another bag of red bean and make another round of the paste. Still not satisfied by the consistency as it’s on the crumbly side. More suitable for Chinese pastry but I feel the need for gooey […]
Steamed Buns Day with Kids
I was experimenting with chrysanthemum goji berry flavored steamed buns and kids requested to make their own buns too 😅 so I had to give them a batch of dough to “work on”. Gave them dough made with thermomix quick steamed buns recipe. 😉 My chrysanthemum goji berry steamed buns was not successful in the […]
挂包/Steamed Folded Buns
Trying out @chez.jorge steamed buns recipe because I watched his live IG and the fluffy buns were too hard to resist 😅 I made them into the folded buns (Chez Jorge also had a folded steamed buns recipe on his website here). He is such a talented vegan recipe developer. Please do check his website out! We […]
Fluffy Char Siew Bao/Steamed buns
Finally found a recipe which produce very fluffy steamed buns. Thank you @chompmom for sharing this dough recipe from https://tasteasianfood.com/char-siu-bao-recipe/ The only downside is there’s 50g of shortening for 20 buns. So each buns contain 2.5g of shortening 🤪 I will try again using canola oil or mixture of canola oil with lesser shortening to see how […]
Hua Juan/ Spring Onion Steamed buns
Another batch of not-satisfying-attempt for steamed buns as I tried using a new recipe with shortening. Hoping for that fluffy texture I wanted to achieve. I felt that I had under kneaded the dough which affected the texture and also forgot to cut down the icing sugar so it tasted too sweet to my likings. […]
Vegan Turnip Steamed Buns
I am still on the search for a nice steamed bun recipe. Initially, I was adamant about not using vegetable shortening. After reading many recipes, I have noticed that the key to get fluffy texture and not the bready kind of soft texture is to use vegetable shortening in place of vegetable oil. So I […]
Char Siew Buns and Vegetable Buns
It was a “bao” day (steamed buns day) for us 😅 hubby said he wants vegetable buns but the kids love their char siew buns more. So I decided to make both. Took me 3 hours to make these buns in the end. Feedback from my “customers” : Char siew buns is great as it’s […]
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[Thermomix] Quick purple sweet potato steamed buns
Time for some steamed buns again🤣 coz we need some snacks and “edible sensory play” for the kids. This time I didn’t reduce the olive oil and kids were complaining that dough is too sticky for them to shape 😝 but we are rewarded with extremely soft and fluffy buns! Kids still enjoy this activity […]
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[Thermomix] steamed buns/ mantou
Keeping kids at home during this pandemic time means we have to think of endless activities with them 😐 they are either bored/hungry all-day-long. Very often they request for making steamed buns/mantou as they get to have some edible sensory play. This time we made the dough in 2 colors ,red and green. I made […]
Sunday Steamed buns
It’s becoming our Sunday activity with the kids 😅 making steamed buns together.
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.This time we made 3 colors as requested by the little ms. N.
I made a bigger batch of dough using the thermomix (total dough about 494g I.e 16buns of about 30g Each)
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.adjusted recipe from perfection with Thermomix in 7 days -quick steamed buns with some adjustments.
Steamed Cute looking bun (Dairy Free)
Followed YouTube recipe by Tinrry baking ( @wangmeijibuns ) she did a clear explanation of all the steps and key points to note! I was in the rush to go out for dinner date with my girls so couldn’t do design on the rest of the buns 😅. Also we replaced cow’s milk with Unsweetened soy […]
Char Siew Bao (叉烧包）
Still looking for my perfect and easy dough recipe for steamed buns… 🤣been testing different dough recipes which doesn’t require shortening , milk or sourdough starter… . This time, I’m using a dough recipe which only uses flour, yeast and water. It has no salt , no sugar and no oil. It was ok to […]
Steamed vegetable buns 蒸菜包 (Dairy Free)
Ingredients 400~450g turnip, cut into strips 30g carrot, cut into thin strips 2 soaked shiitake mushroom chop into pieces 5 soaked black fungus chop into pieces 15g garlic (about 4 cloves), minced 30~40ml hot water Seasoning 1/4 ~ 1/2 tsp salt 2 tsp sugar 3/4 tsp seasoning powder Pepper to taste （Optional） 1/2 tsp potato […]
Chocolate Mantou
This recipe is modified from @reese_hlac recipe on her YouTube Channel to make it dairy-free. Still need to work on my rolling skill ? her buns look so pretty! Please go watch it. Here present to you my Dairy Free Chocolate Mantou. The kids love it so much!!! Adjusted ingredients: 110g unsweetened almond milk […]