Introduction: Breakfest Baozi (Bacon, Sausage and Eggs Filling)
Step 1: Making the Dough
Ingredients:
300ml warm water
1 packet yeast
2 tbsp sugar
450g flour
1tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
sesame seed oil
Picture 1. All the ingredients laid out
Picture 2. Place the flour in a bowl
Picture 3. add the yeast
Picture 4. add the Sugar
Picture 5. add the salt
Picture 6. add the sesame seed oil
Picture 7. add the water
Picture 8 form a soft dough
Step 2: Preparing the Filling
It is essential that bacon and the sausages are cooked at this stage (the steaming process might not properly cook them), so please cook them at Gas mark 4 (180C or 350F) for 30 minutes in the oven. Thank you to "HollandJim" and "dingonv" for pointing out my mistake.
Ingredients:
2 Tbsp Honey
2 Tbsp Soy sauce
1 Tbsp Sesame seeds heaped
2 Tbsp Sesame oil
2 Spring onions finely chopped
2 Garlic finely chopped
6 Bacon rashers
6 Sausage
Ingredients:
Picture 1. ingredients laid out
Picture 2. get out a baking tray
Picture 3. add sesame seed oil
Picture 4 add soy sauce and honey
Picture 5 add chopped vegetables
Picture 6 slice the bacon in to small bite sized chunks
Picture 7. start to heat up the marinade
Picture 8. Add the bacon and sausages to the hot marinade and then place in the oven at gas mark 4 for 30 min until cooked
Step 3: Boiling the Eggs
Ingredients:
6 Eggs
Picture 1. get a pan ready
Picture 2. boil water in the pan
Picture 3. add eggs to boiling water boil for 3 minutes
Picture 4 drain water
Picture 5. de-shell eggs under running cold water
Picture 6. Slice each egg in two
Step 4: Working the Dough
Picture 1. after leaving the dough to rise for an hour an a half punch it down
Picture 2 -3. shape the dough on a floured surface
Picture 4. form it in to a sausage shape
Picture 5 -6. spilt it until you get 12 small balls of dough
Step 5: Forming the Baozi
you need to also cut out 12 pieces of baking paper one for each dough ball and set then aside at this point
Picture 1. place each dough ball on each piece of paper
Picture 2. flatten the dough and place on egg half upon it
Picture 3. place half of a sausage and some bacon bits on top of and by the side of the egg
Picture 4. place a teaspoon for baked beans on top ( this optional )
Step 6: Cooking the Baozi
Picture 1 - 2. fill a large saucepan with water and let boil
Picture 3. place either a Colander or a place sitting about the boiling water level in the sauce pan
Picture 4. -5. place 4 baozi on the plate and steam for 15 minutes with the top on
Step 7:
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