Vegan Baozi (Chinese Steamed Buns)

Ingredients

• Wheat flour

  Whole-grain

  300g

• Yeast

  Leavening agents, baker's, active dry

  2 ¼ tsp or 9g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  160g

• Tofu

  Silken, firm, Mori-nu, soy

  50g

• Scallions

  Spring onions or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw

  2 medium or 30g

• Garlic

  Raw

  2 cloves, minced or 6g

• Carrots

  Raw

  1 medium or 61g

• Cabbage

  Napa, raw

  150g

• Ginger root

  Raw

  2 tbsp or 12g

• Mushrooms

  Shiitake, raw

  6 mushroom or 114g

• Sesame oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 tsp or 5g

• Salt

  Table

  1 tsp or 6g

• Soy sauce

  Made from soy (tamari)

  2 tbsp or 36g

• Mirin Rice Cooking Wine

  Eden

  2 Tbsp or 34g

• Sesame seeds

  Seeds, whole, dried

  1 tbsp or 9g

• Oyster sauce

  Ready-to-serve

  1 tbsp or 18g

Directions

1. Making the wrapper. Prepare warm water around 35 C. And mix the yeast with the water. Mix well and set aside for around 5 minutes. If you do not want sugar, just skip it.
2. Prepare the flour in a large bowl. Pour the water with yeast slowly to the bowl with flour and stir with a chop sticker.
3. Then knead the flour into smooth and soft dough. At the very beginning, it might be a little bit sticky.
4. Cover the bowl and let the dough rest for around 1 hour or until the paste ball doubles in size. This process can be done by mixer.
5. When the dough is double in size, get paste ball out and punch the air out.
6. Then roll the dough into a long log around 1 inch in diameter or any size you want.
7. Making the filling. Finely chop the spring onions, garlic and ginger either by hand or in a mini electric chopper or hand blender. Prepare all the vegetables. Heat the oil in a wok or frying pan, and stir fry the spring onions, garlic and ginger for about 30 seconds. Add the vegetables and sesame seeds, and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add the tofu soy sauce, rice wine and sesame oil. Taste and check the seasoning. It is important to season the mixture really well, as Baozi fillings tend to be strongly flavoured.
8. Add scrambled tofu in with salt and light soy sauce. Mix well.
9. Remove the pan from the fire and mix chopped spring onions in. Then we have the fillings.
10. Making Baozi. Fold the boazi one by one like the picture shows.
11. Brush some oil on the bottom of each baozi and put into the steamer.
12. Heat up water in wok and begin to steam. Count at least 15 minutes after the water in wok begins to boil.
13. Recipe by: Elaine (source: https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/vegan-baozichinese-steamed-buns/)