Pan Fried Bun 水煎包

Custard Buns 奶皇包

Daddy bought this stainless steel steamer for me on 12/5

Chocolate Strawberry Buns 巧克力草莓饅頭

uncooked

I was teaching my Niece Cathy to make buns. I asked her what kind does she want to make and she said 3 colors buns. So, we made chocolate strawberry buns.

Green Onion Buns 蔥花捲

Chocolate Buns 巧克力饅頭

I used the same ingredients as making buns 饅頭. For the brown part, I used milk chocolate powder.

Directions:

1. used 1 white dough and 1 chocolate dough and roll them out into rectangular shape
2. put white dough on the bottom and then chocolate dough on the top and roll them up
3. cut them into desire size
4. put 1.5 cups of water in the electric rice cooker steamer
5. steam until they are done and wait for another 3 minutes before taking them out

Bao Zi 包子

I used the same ingredients as making buns 饅頭.

Meat Fillings (whatever you want to add)

• ground pork
• fine chopped green onion
• soy sauce

Directions:

1. I used about 60 g of dough for each Bao Zi 包子, roll it out into circular shape
2. put meat fillings in the center and pinch the dough together until it forms a ball (I'm not good at it yet)
3. put 1.5 cups of water in the electric rice cooker steamer
4. steam until they are done and wait for another 3 minutes before taking them out

made by daddy 12/6

Buns 饅頭

Ingredients:

• all purpose flour 500 g
• sugar 60 g
• salt 1/2 teaspoon
• yeast 1 teaspoon + 1/2 teaspoon + 1/4 teaspoon
• milk 300 ml (or water)
• oil 1 tablespoon (I used olive oil)

Directions:

1. mix dried ingredients together
2. add milk or water
3. mix until it comes together (I used my hand)
4. then I used mixer to knead the dough for about 5 minutes
5. add oil and knead about another 5 minutes
6. put it away in a bowl or some sort of container, cover with damp cloth or saran wrap (until it doubles in size)
7. roll it out into a rectangular shape, roll it up, and cut it into desire size
8. put 1.5 cups of water into electric rice cooker steamer
9. steam until they are done and wait for another 3 minutes before taking them out

Taro Bun 芋泥饅頭

This is my first time making bun 饅頭. It didn't look nice and clean but tasted ok.

Ingredients for the bun:

• 1 tablespoon yeast
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1.5 cup hot water
• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• taro
• butter
• sugar

Taro

steam taro until it's cooked

add sugar and butter to taste

Directions:

1. dissolve sugar and yeast in 1.5 cup of hot water (about 110˚) and wait about 5 minutes (you should see layer of foam forms on the surface)
2. put flour and sugar yeast mixture together in a mixer, takes about 10 minutes to knead the dough
3. put dough in a bowl and cover it with wet cloth or saran wrap about 1 hr or so or until it doubled in size
4. knead the dough again and roll it out into a rectangular shape
5. spread taro on the dough and roll it up
6. cut into desire size
7. I used electric rice cooker steamer. put 1.5 cup of water, steam until it's done, and leave it in for 3 minutes before taking buns out