Steamed Buns with BBQ Pork

This is a yeast dough bun that is stuffed with a meat filling and steamed until cooked..

Chicken, Pork. Not vegetarian — contains chicken, pork.

Ingredients

Bun filling

• 8 ounces (225 g) shredded cooked pork or chicken
• ½ cup barbecue sauce
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp cooking oil
• 1 tbsp granulated white sugar
• 1 tbsp Teriyaki sauce
• 1 tsp garlic chili sauce
• ¼ tsp five spice powder
• ¼ tsp toasted sesame oil

Steamed buns

• 1½ cups warm water (95°F / 35°C)
• 3 tsp (or 1 packet) active dry yeast
• 3 tbsp granulated white sugar
• 4 cups white bread flour
• 2 tbsp cooking oil
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt

Method

1. Place all ingredients in food processor.
2. Process until ingredients are blended and chopped fine.
3. Stir yeast and 1 tablespoon of sugar into 1½ cups of warm water (95°F / 35°C.). Let stand for 15 minutes.
4. Mix yeast water, 2 more tablespoons of sugar, flour, cooking oil, baking powder, and salt in mixing bowl.
5. Stir until dough forms. Knead dough for 10 minutes.
6. Allow dough to rise in a warm place for 1½ hours.
7. Punch dough down and divide into 12 pieces.
8. Roll each piece of dough into a ball, then flatten with rolling pin into a 6-inch (15 cm) circle.
9. Place 1 tablespoon of meat filling in center of each flattened piece of dough.
10. Lift the edges of the flattened dough up around the filling and bring edges together. Pinch edges closed to form filled bun.
11. Place buns on parchment paper. Allow to rise in a warm place 1 hour, until doubled in size.
12. Steam buns in a steamer over boiling water for 20 minutes.
13. Remove from steamer. When cool enough to handle, remove parchment paper from bottom.
14. Serve warm.

Not our recipe. This one is Cookbook:Steamed Buns with BBQ Pork from Wikibooks, written by Wikibooks contributors, and we are passing it on rather than rewriting it. We took the revision of 2025-06-18, so you can see exactly what we started from even if the page has changed since. It is used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, which means this page is under that licence too — you may copy and change it yourself on the same terms, with the same credit.

Where this came from

Cookbook:Steamed Buns with BBQ Pork — Wikibooks. Revision 4512779, 2025-06-18. Permanent link to that revision.

Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.

Filed under China · All recipes