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🥟✨ Steamed Vegetarian Buns (Bao) — by UFM

Nothing feels more comforting during the Vegetarian Festival than a warm, fluffy Vegetarian Bao — soft dough, fragrant spices, and a hearty vegetable filling full of texture and flavor.
 
Ingredients

Bao Dough

  • UFM Cake Flour (Fan Brand)
  • UFM Wheat Flour (Red Lotus Brand)
  • Baking powder — 4 g
  • Salt — 3 g
  • Sugar — 50 g
  • Yeast — 5 g
  • Water — 185 g
  • Shortening — 50 g
     
    Vegetarian Filling
  • Shiitake mushrooms — 35 g
  • Cabbage — 200 g
  • Carrot — 100 g
  • Water chestnuts — 100 g
  • Salt — 1 tsp
  • Light soy sauce — 3 tbsp
  • Mushroom seasoning sauce — 4 tbsp
  • Sesame oil — 2 tbsp
  • Sugar — 1 tbsp
  • Ground pepper — 1 tbsp
  • UFM All-Purpose Flour (Kite Brand) — 1 tbsp (to bind filling)
  • Vegetable oil (for stir-frying)
Instructions

Making the Filling

  1. Heat a pan with vegetable oil.
  2. Add shiitake mushrooms, cabbage, carrot, and water chestnut.
  3. Season with soy sauce, mushroom sauce, sugar, salt, sesame oil, and pepper.
  4. Add flour to lightly bind the filling.
  5. Let cool completely before filling the buns.
     

Shaping & Steaming

  1. Flatten each dough ball and add 30 g of filling.
  2. Seal tightly and shape into a smooth bun.
  3. Proof until doubled in size.
  4. Steam for 12 minutes over medium heat. 
    ✨ Serve warm — soft, fragrant, and delightfully satisfying.

Perfect for breakfast, snacks, or sharing with loved ones during the festival. 💛🥟

 

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