Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, nikuman (meat-filled steamed buns) at home. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nikuman (Meat-Filled Steamed Buns) at Home is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Nikuman (Meat-Filled Steamed Buns) at Home is something which I have loved my entire life.
You can freeze the buns at this stage in a plastic bag, taking care not to let them touch each other. Let them defrost at room temperature and steam as usual. Make the meat filling: Put all the ■ ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Make a favourite Japanese hot fast food at home with soft, round Nikuman steamed buns.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have nikuman (meat-filled steamed buns) at home using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Nikuman (Meat-Filled Steamed Buns) at Home:
- Get 100 grams ○Bread (strong) flour
- Prepare 100 grams ○Cake flour
- Prepare 2 tsp ○ Dry yeast
- Make ready 3 tbsp ○Sugar
- Take 2 tsp ○Vegetable oil
- Prepare 100 ml ○Lukewarm water
- Take 200 grams ☆Ground pork
- Take 4 ☆Dried shiitake mushrooms (rehydrated in water)
- Prepare 100 grams, finely chopped ☆Cooked bamboo shoots
- Take 1 stalk, finely chopped ☆Japanese leek
- Make ready 1 piece ☆Ginger
- Get 1/4 tsp ■Salt
- Make ready 3 tbsp ■Soy sauce
- Get 2 tbsp ■Sake
- Prepare 1 tbsp ■Sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp ■Sesame oil
- Get 1 dash ■Pepper
The white bread part is made from both yeast and baking powder, and it is soft and tender. The filling is pork with chopped vegetables seasoned with soy sauce and other flavorings such as oyster sauce and ginger. Nikuman is the Japanese name for the Chinese baozi (包子,肉包), also known as Chūka Man (中華まん). These steamed buns are made from flour dough and filled with meat and other ingredients.
Instructions to make Nikuman (Meat-Filled Steamed Buns) at Home:
- Mix the ○ ingredients together, and knead well for 5-10 minutes until the surface is smooth. It's faster to knead by hand than in a bread machine. Let the dough rise (1st rising): put the dough in a lightly oiled bowl. Heat up a steamer until steam is rising. Turn off the heat, and put the dough in the bowl in the steamer until doubled, about 15 to 20 minutes.
- While the dough is rising, mix the ☆ ingredients and the ■ flavoring ingredients together to make the filling. It has lots of vegetables in it!
- Take the risen dough out and put it on a working surface that has been dusted with bread flour. Divide into 8 portions and roll each into a ball, and cover with a wrung out moistened kitchen towel. Roll each ball out and flatten into a 10 cm pancake. Make the perimeter thinner (about 2 mm) than the middle part.
- Put 2 to 3 tablespoons of filling in the middle of each dough, and fold up the dough around it. Press the seams together very well. The dough here is a bit thick.
- Cut parchment paper into 5 cm squares, and place a bun on each piece. You can freeze the buns at this stage in a plastic bag, taking care not to let them touch each other. Let them defrost at room temperature and steam as usual. Cook the buns in a preheated steamer for 12 minutes.
- Done! The buns are full of meaty juice, so be careful not to puncture them when taking them out of the steamer. They are great dipped in soy sauce.
Nikuman is the Japanese name for the Chinese baozi (包子,肉包), also known as Chūka Man (中華まん). These steamed buns are made from flour dough and filled with meat and other ingredients. In western Japan (西日本) including Osaka, they are called Buta Man (豚まん). Also known as kareeman, Japanese steamed curry buns are filled with vegetable mixture and curry-flavored mince. These buns resemble steamed pork buns, but for the steamed curry buns you can use any type of minced meat.
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