🇨🇳 Chinese Cuisine

包子 (Bao Zi)

Baozi

Prep Time 120 minutes

Servings 6

Difficulty Medium

Fluffy steamed buns filled with savory pork and vegetables or sweet red bean paste. A staple breakfast food across China with countless regional variations.

Ingredients

500g all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon instant yeast
2 tablespoons sugar
250ml warm water
400g ground pork
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
200g napa cabbage chopped
1 tablespoon ginger minced

Instructions

1 Mix flour, yeast, sugar, and water into a smooth dough, let rise one hour.
2 Mix pork with soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, and squeezed cabbage.
3 Divide dough into pieces, roll into circles, fill with pork mixture.
4 Pleat the edges shut in a spiral pattern.
5 Steam over high heat for fifteen minutes until puffed and cooked through.

Did You Know?

The city of Tianjin is so famous for its baozi that Goubuli Baozi became one of the first nationally recognized food brands in China.