Breakfest Baozi (Bacon, Sausage and Eggs Filling)
Intro: Breakfest Baozi (Bacon, Sausage and Eggs Filling)
Baozi or Chinese steamed buns consist of a small piece of dough wrapped around a filling and then steamed to cook the outside dough. this staple food of Chinese and many variations across the far east are still very novel and new in the western world yet to take on there popularity it has as a street food back home. i am fascinated by them and find them absolutely delicious would urge you to try to make them and if you have a China town in your Capital City look for them from street dealers there.
as i mentioned before there are also variations of almost the entirely the same bun but go by different names in different cultures for example ;
Nikuman, the Japanese variant
Bánh bao, the Vietnamese equivalent
and many more.
You should be aware that this is a quite time consuming process and be prepare to take all day with it.
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
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 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
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 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:
Beef and cabbage filling
Chicken and Chive filling
Plain technically this is just called Mantou as it contains no filling
7 Comments
gstephens1 8 years ago
My Filipino wife makes me BBQ Pork Sio Pao (the Philippines version of Baozi) and I love it. I am going to give her this recipe to mix it up a bit!
NMB1 9 years ago
Hi, great looking recipe! How much sesame seed oil do we need for the dough? The same amount as is in the filling? Can't wait to make this!
dingonv 10 years ago
Looks delicious. What is the oven temperature or does the filling just need to rest in the oven for a bit? How long in the oven if actual cooking is taking place in there.
FJYE 9 years ago
Hi, sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you, I need to make it clear that the sausages are suppose to cook entirely in the oven, in the recipe i have suggested that after frying them in the spring onions, honey, soy sauce ect that they should go in the oven at :
Gas mark 4 Which is 180C or 350F
For 30 minutes.
Im sorry that it has taken me so long to get back to you i do try to go back and look at all of my instructables and correct them, but mistakes happen none the less.
i hope you enjoy my recipes. Thanks for watching.
IanStofiski 10 years ago
I've made roast pork (heard it called char siu?) variety of these, definitely time consuming, but oh so good. it really is an all day thing though if I'm roasting the pork from scratch, but it's so worth it.
patsheldon 10 years ago
YUM!!!!
Sinderella1986 10 years ago