Saturday, April 4, 2015

Steamed meat pau recipe (肉包)

Minced pork & cabbage pau
Minced pork & cabbage filling

Minced pork (≈ 600g)
Cabbage (≈ 1 big leaf)
Rice wine
Sugar
Pepper
Light soy sauce
Oyster sauce
Sesame oil
Cornflour

1.     Season minced meat with the following ingredients.

Pau dough

300g Hong Kong pau flour
3g (¾ tsp) baking powder
3g (1 tsp) instant yeast
30g caster sugar
160ml water
15g vegetable oil (used much less)

Pau recipe from here.

2.     Wrap 1/8 cup minced meat with 40g pau dough. (Made ≈ 14 paus)

I ran out of minced pork after 12 paus, so 2 paus were filled with hei bi hiam and 1 small one with cheese.

* Green food colouring used for the leaves. Bamboo charcoal powder used for the paus.
Before steaming 
Minced pork pau, hei bi hiam pau & cheese pau
Minced pork pau
Hei bi hiam pau
Cheese pau