Mantou (馒头)
Ingredients
- 500 g Hong Kong flour Use plain flour if you cannot get HK flour
- 270 g Water at 70C
- 1 tbsp Caster sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tbsp Oil (optional)
- 1 tsp Yeast
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients into a dough.
- Knead until the dough is smooth and elastic. Let the dough rest till it is doubled.
- Roll the dough out into a rectangle of about 1 cm thick
- Roll up like a swiss roll. Cut according to desired shape and size
- Place the mantou into a steamer lined with parchment paper.
- Let it raise till double and then steam them for 10 minutes
- Prepare oil to medium heat, and fry the mantou till golden brown.