Asian Style Buns

I grew up with Hong Kong style bakeries everywhere, the staple products from these bakeries are shelves full of these soft, tender, slightly sweet eggy bread buns.  It can be filled with sweet or savory ingredients, and we eat it for breakfast, for afternoon snack, or just anytime you need food on the go.

Typical ingredients could be red bean paste, tuna salad, franks, spam & egg, I could go on…

This is a bread machine recipe, but you can make it with a KitchenAid or by hand and a lot of elbow grease.

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Asian Style Bun

This versatile gun is slightly sweet, it’s the vessel to all Asian buns, Anpan, Tuna Buns, BBQ Pork Buns, etc.

Prep Time1 hour hr 45 minutes mins

Cook Time15 minutes mins

Proof30 minutes mins

Total Time2 hours hrs

Course: Snack

Cuisine: Asian

Servings: 8 Buns

Equipment

• Bread Machine

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 50 ml milk slightly warmed (30C)
• 50 ml water slightly warmed (30C)
• 3 g yeast
• 50 g sugar
• 225 g bread flour
• 25 g cake flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 35 g butter cubed
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tsp water

Instructions

• Put egg, warmed milk, warm water, yeast, sugar, flours, salt into your bread machine.
• Set it to dough function and let it start
• About 15-20 minutes in, a dough ball should have formed, dump in the butter, and let the machine do the rest
• Once the dough is done, put it onto a flour dusted surface, evenly divide the dough into eighths
• Fold down many times until a ball is formed, pinch the bottom, and roll with loosely cupped hand to make it round
• Press down, and roll with a rolling pin so it becomes flat, fill with your choice of ingredients, fold in and pinch the dough close
• Lay it onto a parchment lined sheet tray
• Cover and let proof for 30 minutes
• Mix together egg yolk and water, brush onto of the buns, add some toppings (sesame seeds, green onions, poppy seeds, or none at all)
• Bake 13-15 minutes