Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, sourdough bao. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The Bao Dough + Sourdough Starter. The dough consists mainly of white flour and also corn starch. The starch helps to soften the flour even more. Then there is a little sugar, salt, baking powder oil, water and of course sourdough starter. (Have no sourdough starter?

Sourdough Bao is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Sourdough Bao is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sourdough bao using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sourdough Bao:

1. Prepare 80 g Sourdough starter (quite runny, straight from fridge)
2. Get 140 g All purpose flour
3. Prepare 50 ml water
4. Make ready 1 tbsp sunflower, sesame or coconut oil
5. Prepare 1 tsp sugar

The sourdough starter provides most of the leavening in this recipe. There is also some baking powder in the recipe, which also provides leavening. I have always used baking powder in addition to whatever yeast I am using in bao recipes. These Sourdough Einkorn Bao Buns are easy to make and remind me of soft and fat taco shells.

Steps to make Sourdough Bao:

1. In the morning, dissolve the starter in the water and mix in all the other ingredients. Knead just enough to make a dryish dough. Cover with clingfilm and leave to rise at room temp
2. Throughout the morning, do a cycle of folds every hour or so. Don't let it get in the way of life though. Missing a few folds won't hurt.
3. 4 hours before dinner, the dough should have doubled in size. Cut the dough into 4 pieces, flatten and shape into buns (do that thing where you stick baking parchment inside so that the two halves don't stick together). Place on baking parchment. I like to put them inside a steamer at this point so that they are ready to go at dinner time.
4. Put steamer in the oven with the light on (in my oven this gives a temperature of about 40-50C). Leave until dinner time. Don't be afraid to prove the hell out of the buns. They should really be big and puffy by the end of this step.
5. Buns should be nice and puffed up. Now add cold water to the steamer and put it over a medium heat. When the water starts boiling, start the timer. After 15 or 20 mins they are done!

I have always used baking powder in addition to whatever yeast I am using in bao recipes. These Sourdough Einkorn Bao Buns are easy to make and remind me of soft and fat taco shells. I filled mine with BBQ pulled chicken but the possibilities are endless for what you can use to fill them. I decided to make my version with sourdough instead of yeast and use all-purpose einkorn flour instead of regular all-purpose flour. Check out the Sourdough Surprises steamed bun collection: Chinese BBQ Pork Sourdough Steamed Buns (Char Siu Bao) Adapted from Andrea Nguyen's Asian Dumplings, via several sources.

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