Steamed Buns With Sweet Fillings

Raise your hands if you like steamed buns 🙋

We looooveee steamed buns so much that we often make it at home. Be it as is without filling (mantou) or with sweet and/or savory filling (baozi). In Indonesia, we call them as bakpao, although today many would call them as just pao or mantau.

Thought I'd share a recipe of steamed buns with sweet filling before I head to the cotton island 😉 Vegan of course 😊

Fluffy bun, yum-yum

These buns are filled with:

• Strawberry jam
• DF chocolate chips
• PB2 (fatless peanut butter powder)
• PB2 + chocolate chips

Dough Ingredients

• 1 1/4 c almond milk (sweetened or unsweetened)
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1 heaping tsp active dry yeast

How To

• In a heatproof bowl, pour almond milk and sprinkle with sugar, microwave to lukewarm, then sprinkle with yeast, stir. Let mixture stand for 10 minutes.

• On a separate bowl, mix 3 c of flour with 2 tbsp soy milk powder (optional), 1 tbsp icing sugar and a pinch of salt.

• Pour yeast mixture into flour mixture and knead.

• Cover with plastic cling wrap and let stand for an hour or until doubled in size. Once dough doubled in size, take about 35-45 gram of dough, flatten and fill with jam/vegan chocolate chips, peanut butter etc Seam to seal.

• Let rest for another half H

• Meanwhile, preheat steamer, then when steamer is ready, steam buns for 5 minutes.

PB2 Filling

• 2 tbsp PB2 mix with 1 tsp icing sugar and enough maple syrup, to make paste

Note: the dough makes 6 steamed buns filled with choc chips, 4 buns with jam, 4 buns with PB2, and 2 buns with PB2+Choc chips

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