Homemade Steamed Buns
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- More effort
- Serves 15
Ingredients
* FOR THE BUNS:
- * 250 grams Bread Flour
- * 6 grams Sugar
- * 5 grams Yeast, Active Dry
- * 1/2 teaspoons Salt To Taste
- * 1 teaspoon Olive Oil
- * 130 milliliters Water
- * _____
* FOR THE FILLING:
- * 50 milliliters Coconut Pani Or Coconut Treacle
- * 1/4 teaspoons Cinnamon
- * 1/2 teaspoons Sugar
- * 100 grams Desiccated Coconut
Method
- STEP 1Sift the flour. In a mixing bowl combine the flour, sugar, yeast and salt. Mix well about 1 minute. Pour in olive oil and water. Mix well. Now clean your dry working surface and knead by hand about 10 minutes.
- STEP 2Cover the dough and let rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes. After that, punch the dough down and make 15 round lemon-sized balls.
- STEP 3Now take out each ball and roll out with a rolling pin until you get a disk (2 1/2-inch diameter and 1/4-inch thick).
- STEP 4To make the coconut filling, in a thick-bottomed pan, put coconut pani, cinnamon and sugar and bring to a boil (you need it to be around 100 C degrees so use a thermometer). Then add the pani mixture to the desiccated coconut and mix well. Let cool.
- STEP 5Now place about 1 teaspoon of sweet coconut mixture in the middle of each disk. Roll into a ball. Next shape the dough into a oval shape. Using sharp scissors, snip the top of the dough to form prickles to shape it like a porcupine.
- STEP 6Now put the porcupine on top of oil paper or baking paper. Place porcupine buns in a steamer and steam over a pan of boiling water for about 10 minutes. When the porcupine buns are cooked, remove from the steamer and place on a dish
- STEP 7After that, you can decorate the porcupine buns with eyes, a mouth and whiskers. I have done so in the photo using food coloring for the eyes and mouth and coconut husk for the whiskers.
- STEP 8Serve warm.
- STEP 9Enjoy.