I've always enjoyed eating my dad's homemade steamed buns as a child. I remembered his strong hands and buff arms as he kneaded the dough on the kitchen counter for a long period of time. Even though I thought 'why not try to make the buns on my own', I do not have the arm muscles like my dad's to knead the dough by hand. So I cheated a little bit by using the Kitchen Aid mixer. It worked just as well, fortunately!
First, I mixed a packet of yeast (1 1/4 teaspoon) with about a cup of warm water to let the yeast become active.
In the mixer, I put in 4 cups of all purpose flour,
1 1/2 cup of warm milk
then the active yeast mixture.
Meanwhile, I started cooking a red wine short ribs stew, which the meat will be used to eat with the buns in the end.
After the dough was kneaded, by the mixer, I let it rise in a bowl for 45 minutes.
Look at how much bigger it grew.
Then I rolled the dough into little round shapes and let them rest another 25 minutes until I actually steamed them.
By that time the meat was also done.
The meat was so tender and fell right out of the bones.
I also prepared lettuce leaves, and cilantro to make the bun hamburger, or a bunburger. ^^ It was a hit!
Brandon surely liked it!
