Baked Char Siu Bao - Buns With Minced BBQ Pork

Preparation Time: 3 hours Cooking Time: 3 hours Serves: 8
Ingredients:

If you know what Char Siu Bao is, you already know how delicious these hot little buns are. They can be baked or steamed, but both have soft, slightly sweet, pillowy dough wrapped around a savory and sweet filling of thick sauce and minced BBQ’d pork.

Please note that if you decide to make this, you will need several hours on multiple days to complete this. The internet is deceiving, and while none of this is terribly difficult, it IS time consuming! The pork needs many hours or days of marinating and refrigerating, and my dough took a total of 5 hours to rise. That being said, if you love bao as much as I do, these will be worth it.

Makes 16 bao with leftover pork (which is a good thing).

Make the Char Siu (BBQ’d Pork)

Your first ingredients:

About 2-2.5 lbs of pork butt/shoulder
1 1/2 TB dark soy
1 1/2 TB light soy
1 1/2 TB honey
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 TB Oyster Sauce (make sure Oysters are actually in the ingredients)
2 TB whiskey
3 1/2 TB Hoisin sauce
pinch pepper
1/2 tsp five spice powder

The rest of the ingredients can be found below, in their corresponding recipe sections.