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Add the yeast a pinch of salt and sugar in the well. Mix the yeast with a little clear water in a bowl.
Place flour in a mound on a cleaned surface.
How to make mantou dough. This is my recipe for mantou dough but it is very versatile and can be used for everything - mantou baozi skin and other various types of buns with both m. The surface of the dough needs to be smooth again. Divide the dough into two halves and take one portion and re-knead again.
To make smooth Mantou It is quite important to pinch all the air bubbles out of the dough. Fill each flat round with roughly 2 tbs of the filling of your choice in the center. Pull the dough on all sides from the corners up to the top and twist to close.
Steam filled buns baozi for 15 25 minutes over high heat. Plain buns or mantou can be obtained by simply omitting the filling. How to make mantou.
Sieve flour into a bowl add sugar and stir with chopsticks. Mix the yeast with a little clear water in a bowl. Then pour it into flour.
Add a small amount of water and condensed milk to the flour several times while stirring. At this point you can either go on to make Mantou as per instructions below or use your Chinese Basic Dough for other yummilicious chinese bun recipes. Sprinkle working surface lightly with flour and roll out the dough to a 12 by 6 rectangle.
Roll up the dough starting from the long side and use sharp knife to cut the roll into 6 equal sections. Place flour in a mound on a cleaned surface. Then create a well in the middle using your fingers or spoon to make it like a volcano.
Add the yeast a pinch of salt and sugar in the well. Gradually pour in the water while bringing the surrounding flour into the mixture. First you will need a yeast mixture to make the mantou dough.
To activate the yeast add warm water and sugar to the yeast. The yeast mixture will become foamy once the yeast is activated. Next make the dough by combining the yeast mixture with flour sugar and oil.
Transfer dough onto the floured surface. Use a rolling pin or simply just your palms to gently flatten the dough into a square or a rectangular sheets of about 05 cm thick. Roll the sheets into a rolls and then roll it into an even longer rolls.
Cut dough into a few pieces the size of a mantou. The most lovely part of this buns is so light sweet fluffy and just makes you a big smile when you bite into it. It is great substitute for rice noodles o.
Line the base of baking tin and grease the sides with butter. Beat butter and sugar on high speed till creamy. Add in the vanilla and brandy.
How to make watermelon mantou. Place the flourstarch combination instant yeast sugar salt and oil in a mixing bowl. If you are using a stand mixer use a dough hook attachment.
Add cold milk or room temperature water. My this recipe is very easy and simpleThese kinds of buns are very popular in China. They can be eaten for breakfast lunch and dinner and go great with.
In the dough stage milk increases water absorption. In other words dough made with milk will be softer than dough made with water. Kneading Kneading is the most important step to making Mantou which is the process to mix all the ingredients and add strength to the final products.
The kneading process warms and stretches these gluten strands eventually creating a springy and elastic. If you desire smaller mantou you can divide into 12 equal pieces. Divide the dough ball into 8 equal pieces with a weighing scale depending on the size you desire.
Form each into dough balls. Divide the dough into half. Roll the dough out on a working surface into a rectangle with a thickness of 14 inch.
This Dough Starter is used for my Mantou Chinese Steamed White Bread recipe as well as for other breads. 12 g baking powder Remove dough from bowl to a working area which had been dusted with flour. Flatten dough and sprinkle baking powder on the dough.
Then knead baking powder into the dough for 5.