Corn Mantou (馒头)

Ingredients

For 10 mini buns:

  • flour 200g
  • corn flour 10g
  • egg 1
  • boiling water
  • dry yeast 3-4g
  • sugar 10g

Instructions

Prepare the dough

  1. Slowly add boiling water to the corn flour and mix until all the flour is lightly moisturized.
  2. Let mixture cool down.
  3. Add flour, egg, sugar, yeast.
  4. Knead the dough for 5-10min.
  5. Let the dough rest for about 1h at a warm place (~30C) until it doubles in size.
  6. Knead the dough for another 5-10min and make sure to remove all air inside.
  7. Roll the dough and cut buns into the preferred size.
  8. Place the buns in the steamer and let them rest for 20min.

Steam the buns

  1. Start with cold water and high heat.
  2. Once steam rises reduce to medium heat and steam for 20-25min.
  3. Turn off the heat and let the buns rest for 5min before opening the lid (else they could collapse).