Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, milk mantou. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

It's a little different from pau (包子). Mantou is usually denser in texture and do not have any filling; pau is usually fluffier and has various. Mantou or Chinese steamed bun is eaten as a staple food in the northern parts of China.

Milk mantou is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Milk mantou is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have milk mantou using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Milk mantou:

1. Get 200 g all purpose flour
2. Prepare 80 g milk
3. Prepare 20 g warm water
4. Prepare 15 g sugar
5. Prepare 10 g vegetable oil
6. Get 2 g yeast

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Steps to make Milk mantou:

1. Activate the yeast in warm water.
2. Combine the flour, milk, sugar and the yeast mixture. Mix them. Add the oil.
3. Work the dough until it is smooth.
4. Put the dough inside a bowl and cover with a wet towel. Rest for 30 minutes.
5. Take out the dough. Flat it out into a rectangle. Press on one end. Roll it.
6. Make it longer so the air comes out. Cut it into several peices.
7. Put them on cooking sheet. Rest for 60 minutes.
8. After finishing resting, boil a wok of water. Once boiled, steam the mantou for 12 minutes. Then, switch off the heat and wait for 5 minutes before taking the mantou out.

Mantou originated in northern China as wheat was the major crop as opposed to rice in the south. It was during a trip to Hong-Kong that I first had Mantou; I think it was the summer of third grade. Mantou are Chinese steamed buns generally made with flour, yeast, and water. There are many variations, particularly with the additions of milk, whole wheat, or even sweet potato. A simple, six-ingredient recipe for plain steamed buns (or mantou), adaptable to make steamed buns with filling (baozi).

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