Homemade Black Pepper Pork Buns
- Difficulty
- Total time
- 2 h 5 min
- Hands-on
- 1 h 15 min
- Cost
- ¥¥¥¥
- Servings
- 8
Equipmentoven, plastic wrap, parchment paper
Tasteumami, light
Ingredients
- ½ tbsp oyster sauce
- ¼ tsp five-spice powder
Dough
- 100 g bread flour
- 100 g all-purpose flour
- 1½ tsp dry yeast
- 1 tbsp sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
- 130 ml warm water
- 1 tbsp sesame seed oil
Filling
- 250 g thin-sliced pork
[A]
- 2 tsp black pepper
- 1 tbsp sake
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp sesame seed oil
Garnish
- Chopped spring onions, to taste
- Egg yolk, to taste
- White sesame seeds, to taste
Method
- 1
Preheat your oven to 113°Fahrenheit/45°Celsius. While that’s heating up, in a small bowl, pour the dry yeast into the warm water and stir together.
- 2
Whisk the bread flour, all-purpose flour, sugar, salt, and sesame oil together in a large bowl. Pour in the yeast and warm water and mix thoroughly.
- 3
Turn the dough out of the bowl onto a lightly floured surface, knead and fold it together firmly, using the heels of your hands, until the dough is smooth and elastic. Mold the dough into a round shape, place it back in the bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and set it in an oven and leave it to rise for 30 minutes.
- 4
Chop the thinly-sliced pork into strips about 5mm wide, put it in a bowl, and add the [A] ingredients and mix thoroughly.
- 5
Once your dough has finished rising, take the dough out of the bowl and split it into 8 equal portions. Roll each portion into a ball, and then use the palm of your hand to flatten each one into a circle that’s approximately 10cm across.
- 6
Holding one disk of dough in your left hand, put a heaping amount of the meat mixture in the middle of it and sprinkle with the chopped spring onions. Using your right thumb and forefinger, pinch the edges of the dough together to seal the bun closed. Repeat for all 8 portions.
- 7
Arrange all 8 buns on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, and cover with a clean kitchen towel. Put the baking sheet back in the oven still at 113°Fahrenheit/45°Celsius and let the dough rise a second time for 20 minutes.
- 8
Brush the top of each bun with egg yolk. Pour white sesame seeds into a bowl. Taking each bun by the bottom, flip it over and press the top into the sesame seeds to lightly coat each bun. Then bake the buns in an oven heated to 355° Fahrenheit/180°Celsius for 25 minutes, and you’re done!
Food safety
- Cook whole cuts of pork to at least 63 °C / 145 °F and rest for 3 minutes.