Char Siu Bread Buns or Chinese BBQ Pork Buns is my son latest favorite breakfast (of course he has many type of favorite breads because his mom love to make breads ^^) I used the leftover Char Siu Bao filling to make this baked buns.
The bread texture is super soft, I'm using golden syrup and water roux starter in this bread making.
I like both steamed and baked Char Siu Buns. How about you? This recipe yield: 16 buns
Ingredients:
Tangzhong/ water roux starter:30g bread flour150ml waterbread dough:500g bread flour 55g pastry flour (top flour)30g milk powder5g instant dry yeast60g fine sugar1/2 tsp salt~110g Tangzhong160 ml water (add gradually)20g golden syrup60g butter, chop in small pieces
Filling:180 g BBQ Pork filling (Char Siu filling)
Egg wash:
one egg yolk with 2 tablespoons of milk, mix wellMethod:1. Prepare Tangzhong: Mix together ingredients in Tangzhong, cook under medium heat, keep stirring until the mixture thicken, not boiling. Remove from heat, cover and set aside until cool.
2. Prepare filling: Please refer to Steamed BBQ Pork Buns (Char Siu Bao)
3. Prepare bread dough: In the electric mixing bowl, add all bread dough ingredients except water and butter. Gradually add water (set aside 50ml for slowly add in) and mix with KitchenAid speed 2 for a min before change to speed 4. Slowly add more water. 4. When the mixture form rough dough or able to pull away from the mixing bowl, add in butter. Continue to let KitchenAid knead the bread dough until elastic windowpane. It means the bread dough is able to stretch open on your palm without tearing. 5. Cover the dough and let it proof to double its size. Punch out the air in the bread dough, divide the dough into 16 equal portions. Shape the dough into round balls. Let it rest for 10 mins.6. Flatten the dough into circle with middle part a bit thicker than the edge. Place a heap teaspoon of BBQ pork filling in the middle. Wrap up the edge of the dough, shape the dough into round ball. Place the dough on the baking tray, let it proof until double its size.
7. Egg wash the dough. Use a sharp razor, gently slice a few slices on the top of the bread. 8. Bake in a preheat oven at 180C for 15 mins. or until the top of the bread turned slightly brown.
