Bakpao Daging (Beef Steamed Buns)

Good Friday Morning!

It’s sunny outside and chilly! I wonder when Spring really gonna sprung, am so bored of coldness 🙉🙊🙈 I have treadmill, yes, but walking outside on the walking trail or in the forest, talking bullshit with my husband, is one of my favorite things to do, which we can’t really have when it’s cold outside as am such a baby, I easily catch cold 😅

Today I have steamed buns recipe to share. in Indonesia we call it as Bakpao or Pao. And yes, they are originally from China, Bao. I believe in the Philippines it’s Siapao. How about where you are from, what are they called there, if you have them there as well 😊

You can fill them with anything you like. Normally in Indonesia you can find beef, chicken, egg, chocolate, mung beans, or red beans filling. In my household, we would fill them with jam as well. Today tho, am sharing Bakpao filled with beef 😊

500 g ground beef
6 baby carrots
1 celery
1 large onion
3 garlic
Sweet soy sauce, to taste
Hoisin sauce, to taste
Oyster sauce, to taste
Sriracha sauce, to taste,
Sesame oil, to taste
Sesame seeds
Ground white pepper, a generous pinch

300 g flour
1 tsp instant yeast
3 tbsp sugar (or granulated sweetener)
A pinch of salt
180 ml milk
3 tbsp olive oil

Slice thinly celery, garlic and onion.

Grate the carrots.

Into a wok or a pan, add in ground beef, sliced onion, garlic, celery and grated carrots

Cook until browning and juice from beef gone

Season with sauces, sesame oil, and adjust to your liking

Stir in pepper and Sesame seeds, take off from heat, let cool to room temperature

Meanwhile, make the skin

Stir your yeast into milk. If using active dry, into lukewarm milk. If using instant yeast, cold or room temperature milk works just fine.
In a bowl, mix sugar, salt and flour, then make a well in center

Pour in yeast mixture followed with olive oil

Knead then let rest, covered, for 30 mins to 1 H

Divide dough into 50 g portions

Roll flat each, then place filling in center

Seam to seal, let rest again for 10-15 mins

Then steam buns in preheated steamers for 10-20 mins

Print Recipe

Bakpao Daging

beef steamed buns

Ingredients

Filling

• 500 g ground beef
• 6 baby carrots
• 1 celery
• 1 large onion
• 3 garlic
• Sweet soy sauce to taste
• Hoisin sauce to taste
• Oyster sauce to taste
• Sriracha sauce to taste,
• Sesame oil to taste
• Sesame seeds
• Ground white pepper a generous pinch

Buns

• 300 g flour
• 1 tsp instant yeast
• 3 tbsp sugar or granulated sweetener
• A pinch of salt
• 180 ml milk
• 3 tbsp olive oil

Instructions

• Slice thinly celery, garlic and onion.
• Grate the carrots.
• Into a wok or a pan, add in ground beef, sliced onion, garlic, celery and grated carrots
• Cook until browning and juice from beef gone
• Season with sauces, sesame oil, and adjust to your liking
• Stir in pepper and Sesame seeds, take off from heat, let cool to room temperature
• Meanwhile, make the skin

Buns

• Stir your yeast into milk. If using active dry, into lukewarm milk. If using instant yeast, cold or room temperature milk works just fine.
• In a bowl, mix sugar, salt and flour, then make a well in center
• Pour in yeast mixture followed with olive oil
• Knead then let rest, covered, for 30 mins to 1 H
• Divide dough into 50 g portions
• Roll flat each, then place filling in center
• Seam to seal, let rest again for 10-15 mins
• Then steam buns in preheated steamers for 10-20 mins

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