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These traditional Chinese lotus leaf buns are similar to many steamed bao, and are distinguished by their flat and folded shape. This recipe will teach you how to make homemade lotus leaf buns piping hot from the steamer. This steamed bao originated from Fuzhou, which is the capital of the Fujian province in China. The original type of lotus leaf bun was called gua bao and it was filled with red pork belly, mustard greens, and peanuts.
These days it’s filled with various things like fried chicken, kimchi, and more. My favorite traditional way of eating bao is with Peking duck, sliced scallions, and Peking sauce. One of the well-known bao that you may have heard of is made by Momofuku, and I’ve luckily been awhile to eat it at their LA chapter, Majordomo. When I visited New York, I was also able to try Baohaus. For my bao recipes, I also like to add wheat starch in addition to using all-purpose wheat flour. Wheat starch is what gives steamed bao a super soft and bouncy texture due to its lack of gluten.
If you don’t have access to wheat starch, you can also use cornstarch. Note: wheat starch is NOT all-purpose wheat flour, these are two entirely different things. When you order Peking duck to-go at Chinese restaurants, they will typically include lotus leaf buns, Peking duck sauce, and scallions with every order. I love using a stand mixer for these recipes because it cuts down on kneading time with your hands almost entirely. After resting the dough for 5 minutes, you can begin to divide the dough into equal pieces of 16.
Then you’ll roll out each piece into a ball, then using a rolling pin roll each into an oval, brush on some vegetable oil to prevent sticking, and then fold it in half. It saves time and prevents overworking the dough. I didn’t like having to deal with excess scraps that you need to roll out again and again. You end up waiting longer for the dough scraps to rest in between rolling them out and cutting again or face the potential of overworking your dough. With the cookie-cutter method, I got shorter semi-circles because I only had circle cutters. To make these semi-circles longer, some recommend rolling it out again after folding to get a better shape, but I found this caused the two sides to stick together.
