Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, fried bao (mantao). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Fried bao (mantao) step by step: Add water, yeast, sugar, vanila essence, salt, mix well. Shanghai Pan-Fried Pork Buns, or shengjian bao (生煎包) / shengjian mantou (生煎馒头) in Chinese, are iconic. Breakfast, brunch, lunch, or snack, people love them as much as the celebrated four Shanghai breakfast warriors. The combination of umami filling dripping with juicy "soup" and the crunchy pan-fried bottoms are simply extraordinary.

Fried bao (mantao) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Fried bao (mantao) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have fried bao (mantao) using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Fried bao (mantao):

1. Get 200 gr self raising flour
2. Make ready 100 gr warm water
3. Prepare 5 gr yeast
4. Take 5 gr oil
5. Take 16 gr sugar
6. Take 5 gr vanila essence
7. Make ready 1 pinch salt
8. Prepare 1 sprinkle of cocoa powder
9. Prepare serve with condensed milk or *sweetened coconut sauce or *coconut egg custard

Golden Mantou refers to deep fried Mantou while silver Mantou refers to un-fried steamed buns with a pure white color. Usually the dish is served with condensed milk. Very lucky for holidays and you will also be amazed by the crispy taste of fried ones. To make the fried mantou, plain and common Chinese steamed buns are needed firstly.

Instructions to make Fried bao (mantao):

1. Add water, yeast, sugar, vanila essence, salt, mix well
2. Add in flour, knead for 2 minutes to strech the gluten, set aside in a bowl with little oil, cover up proof for an hour
3. Flatten the dough, sprinkle with cocoa powder, roll up, cut into 6 pieces
4. Steam for 12 minutes with high heat, set aside to cool, you can keep it for next cooking
5. Fry bao till golden, mine its getting browned because of cocoa powder :( drain and serve

Very lucky for holidays and you will also be amazed by the crispy taste of fried ones. To make the fried mantou, plain and common Chinese steamed buns are needed firstly. Chinese steamed buns can be stuffed with various types of fillings or unstuffed. Those stuffed steamed buns are called as Baozi in Chinese (Bao Buns) and those without fillings are called as mantou. Mantou(馒头) is a basic staple in northern part of China and served in every places of China not just the northern part.

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