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Sheng Jian Bao: Shanghai Pan-Fried Bun

Mai
Recipe for homemade Shanghai pan fried pork soup dumplings
Total Time 2 hours
Servings 18

Ingredients
  

  • Filling
  • 500 g pork belly or minced pork with high fat %
  • 15 g ginger grated
  • 50 g Chinese leaf chopped
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp ground pepper
  • 1 tsp soy sauce
  • 1 tsp shaoxing wine
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 100 ml stock
  • 12 g gelatine powder
  • Wrapper
  • 300 g all purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp yeast
  • 160 ml water
  • Garnishes
  • Sesame seeds
  • Chopped spring onions

Instructions
 

  • Prepare the filling
  • Mix the gelatine powder into the stock until well dissolved then put in the freezer for it to solidify and turn into jelly consistency.
  • Add the pork belly, grated ginger, chopped Chinese leaf, salt, pepper, soy sauce, Shaoxing wine and sugar into a food processor and mix until the meat is well minced and combined with the other ingredients, You'll want to achieve a homogenous sticky consistency with no large chunks.
  • Take the gelatine stock mix out of the freezer and cut into small cubes make sure that they're solid enough to cut and not melt
  • Mix the jelly cubes with the minced meat filling until well distributed
  • Refrigerate until assembly 
  • Prepare the wrapper
  • Mix the flour yeast and water together
  • Kneed the flour using a mixer with a dough attachment for about 10 minutes until smooth (may take longer if done by hand)
  • Roll it into a dough ball, put in a large bowl covered with a damp towel and leave it to rise for 20 minutes
  • When the dough has risen to about 1.5 times its size, take the dough out and kneed until it regains its original size
  • Roll out the dough into a long tube-like shape then divide it into roughly 18-20 portions 
  • Assemble
  • Take one of the dough portions, roll it into a ball then using a rolling pin, roll it out flat until you get a flat circle of about 2mm thickness
  • Using the rolling pin, roll the outside borders of the circle so that it thins out. You should obtain a circle of about 10cm diameter
  • Scoop about 3/4 table spoon of filling and place it into the centre of the dough circle
  • Fold into the dumpling shape by *pinching* the edges together and moving forward around the circle. give it a little twist at the end to ensure that it's well sealed.
  • Cook
  • Heat up a pan, add some oil
  • Add the dumplings to a pan, leave it to fry for about 2 minutes
  • Add 1 cup of water the cover the pan with a lid, cook for 8 minutes
  • Open the lid and check that the water has dissolved.
  • Sprinkle some sesame seeds and green onions
  • Leave the dumplings to cook for a further 2 minutes on the pan with lid open
  • Ready to serve! They're best consumed hot. I tend to eat these with some chilli oil or a 1 part soy sauce + 2 part vinegar and ginger dipping sauce. Enjoy!
Keyword Bao, Chinese, Dumplings, Sheng Jian Bao, Soup Dumpling

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