Honey Walnut Bao

Name: Honey Walnut Bao
Prep time: 1 h 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 300g plain flour; 7g instant yeast; 3 tbsp caster sugar; 160ml warm milk; 1 tbsp oil; 100g walnuts, toasted and roughly chopped; 3 tbsp honey; 100g cream cheese; 1 tbsp butter

Steamed sweet filled bao buns with a honey walnut cream filling. Letting the shaped buns rest for 15 minutes before steaming gives the dough one final rise, resulting in a lighter, fluffier bun.

Total time

80 min

Prep

65 min

Cook

15 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

Chinese

vegetarian

Ingredients

300gplain flour

7ginstant yeast

3 tbspcaster sugar

160mlwarm milk

1 tbspoil

100gwalnuts, toasted and roughly chopped

3 tbsphoney

100gcream cheese

1 tbspbutter

Instructions

Make dough: mix flour, yeast, sugar, milk and oil. Knead. Rest 45 minutes.

Make filling: mix cream cheese, honey, butter and walnuts.

Shape dough around filling. Pleat closed.

Rest 15 minutes.

Steam 12 minutes over boiling water.

Serve warm.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

692

Protein

15.1g

Fat

33.3g

Carbs

86.7g

Fiber

4.2g

Sodium

101mg

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