Snowman Shaped Nikuman (Steamed Bao)
Snowman Shaped Nikuman (Steamed Bao)

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Let's make Nikuman, Japanese steamed buns filled with delicious pork, shiitake mushroom, cabbage, and scallion! It's the best kind of savory snack. The savory buns are usually steamed inside the bamboo steamer and taste the best when you enjoy them right out hot and fluffy.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have snowman shaped nikuman (steamed bao) using 27 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Snowman Shaped Nikuman (Steamed Bao):
  1. Prepare The dough:
  2. Prepare 170 grams Cake flour
  3. Get 80 grams Bread (strong) flour
  4. Prepare 1 tsp Baking powder
  5. Prepare 1/4 tsp Salt
  6. Prepare 2 tbsp Sugar
  7. Get 50 ml Milk
  8. Get 1 tbsp Vegetable oil
  9. Prepare 100 ml Lukewarm water
  10. Get 1 tsp Dried yeast
  11. Take For the chicken-chili sauce filling:
  12. Take 200 grams Chicken breast meat (skinless)
  13. Prepare 1 dash Salt and pepper
  14. Prepare 1 tsp Sake
  15. Get 1 tbsp each Egg white, katakuriko
  16. Prepare 1 Egg (leftovers from the egg whites)
  17. Make ready 3 tbsp Chinese soup stock
  18. Make ready 2 tbsp Ketchup
  19. Take 1 tsp each Sugar, katakuriko
  20. Get 2 tsp each Soy sauce, sake
  21. Get 1 piece/clove each Ginger, garlic
  22. Make ready 1/3 Spring onion
  23. Get 1/2 tsp Doubanjiang
  24. Make ready Decorative parts:
  25. Make ready 6 Eyes: Raisins
  26. Take 1 dash Nose: Carrot
  27. Get 2 tsp Hat: Aonori

Nikuman name is also known as the Kansai region Butaman. Nikumany originally come originally from China. However, over time, the dish became popular and spread throughout Japan. In winter hot, steaming nikumany sold from stalls on the. · Bao Buns!

Steps to make Snowman Shaped Nikuman (Steamed Bao):
  1. Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl. Make a well in the middle, and put the salt on the edge. Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water, pour into the well and mix with cooking chopsticks.
  2. Keep mixing and kneading until the surface of the dough is smooth. If the dough sticks to your hands, add a little bread flour. Form into a ball, and leave to rise for 1 to 1 1/2 hours covered with plastic.
  3. Cut the chicken into 1.5 cm pieces, add salt, pepper, and sake and mix well. Add the egg white and rub in. Add the katakuriko and mix.
  4. Combine the chili sauce ingredients. Mince the ginger, garlic, and leek.
  5. Add 1 tablespoon of oil to a heated frying pan. Add the chicken in one lump, spread it out and brown on each side (no need to cook it all the way through) and transfer to a plate.
  6. Add 1 teaspoon sesame oil to the same frying pan and stir fry the ginger and garlic. Add in the doubanjiang and keep stir frying. Return the chicken to the pan, and cook while breaking it apart.
  7. Add the combined sauce ingredients, and stir and simmer until thickened.
  8. Add the egg yolk left over from using the egg white in Step 3 and mix it through. Adding the egg makes it milder. Transfer to a plate and leave to cool.
  9. Take out the risen dough and punch down to deflate. Take out 30 g of the dough and mix with the aonori seaweed powder to make the dough for the hats.
  10. Divide the remaining dough into 6 portions. Take off 20 g of dough from each portion, to make a total of 12 portions of dough. The big pieces will be the bodies, and the small pieces the heads.
  11. Roll a larger piece of dough out to abut 10 cm diameter with a rolling pin and wrap the filling in it. For detailed instructions, see.
  12. Place the filled dough with the seam sides down on 10x10cm squares of parchment paper. Attention: Keep the dough covered with plastic wrap to prevent drying out.
  13. Fill the smaller pieces of dough in the same way. Just use a little bit of filling, about 1 piece of chicken worth.
  14. Put the small pieces on top of the large pieces.
  15. Roll the piece of dough with the aonori seaweed into a 10 cm log, and cut into 6 portions.
  16. Stick the 'hats' off-center. Cut the raisins into half lengthwise and push in to make the eyes. Make holes with a bamboo skewer and push in a small piece of carrot for the nose.
  17. Put the buns in a steamer, cover with a lid that's been covered with a kitchen towel to prevent condensation from dripping on the buns, and steam over high heat for about 10 minutes. The buns in the photos are a bit too close together…
  18. I also have a recipe for reindeer steamed buns. To reheat the buns, microwave (for one bun) for 40 seconds.

Bao means Buns so calling it bao buns doesn't make sense but it is such a cute name How To Make Nikuman (Steamed Pork Buns) (Recipe) 肉まんの作り方 （レシピ）. Homemade soft moist white bun wrapped around a delicious pork filling with shiitake mushroom, cabbage, and scallion. Nikuman (肉まん; derived from 肉饅頭 niku (meat) manjū) is the Japanese name for the Chinese baozi (包子) made from flour dough, and filled with cooked ground pork, beef or other ingredients. It is a kind of chūka man (中華まん lit. Chinese-style steamed bun) also known in English as pork buns.

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