What up lovely foodtubers, I hope you're all very well
on this beautiful day we're going to make, gorgeous, Chinese style
steamed mushroom buns with gorgeous steamed greens
It's vegan, it's vegetarian
It's full of all the good stuff and really really healthy.
Sound good? Let's do it.
We're going to start with dried mushrooms, Chinese style-y
Cover those with a little boiling water
Let that re-hydrate for just a couple of minutes
and it kind of gives like a kind of
deep broth-y flavour that I absolutely love
So let's get cooking. We've got about 500g of chestnut mushrooms
but you really could use any mushrooms you can get
Mushrooms are a brilliant source of vitamin D and B
I'm just gonna like literally rip them up
So we're going to start to dry fry those mushrooms
then we go in with just a tablespoon of sesame oil
Ginger, just a thumb sized piece, my thumb.
Not your thumb, my thumb. Slice up this ginger
Definitely to my vegan and vegetarian brothers and sisters
You know this is vegan, this happy, happy cooking right here
Carry on tossing
And then I'm using coriander, we'll have the leaves for later
the storks just finely chopped, go in. Gorgeous, look at that.
I'll slice up these dried mushrooms, you can see they're nice and soft now
One little handful will make a lovely difference
Here you've got this kind of little broth
Really, really big flavour. Don't worry about the moisture because what we want to do is cook
that lovely mushroom broth away
You can see it almost evaporating as we talk
See the little bubbles there
So here we are, been cooking for about 4 minutes
So first up a little rice wine vinegar
about a tablespoon
Gives it a little tang and I like that, I like that a lot.
and then a little seasoning with a light soya sauce
Have a nice little toss up, turn the heat off.
Couple of spring onions and chilli
Add that to you own preference okay.
So that is our filling guys and you can see this happens in pretty much in five minutes
Just run your knife through it
Next up let's make these beautiful buns
This recipe I've developed is so so simple
In a bowl we're going to go in with one tin
of coconut milk, this is a beautiful measurement
and I'm going to do a heaped tin of self raising wholemeal flour
cause I want it to be really sort of healthy, full of goodness
So the next one, regular white self raising flour. So in we go.
and then we want to lightly season this dough
Take a little fork, mix it around and you will make a lovely little dough
It's going to be a little bit darker than your traditional one
because of the whole wheat flour but it will still be nice and light and fluffy
I'm going to roll it out to an even sausage. Cut it in half.
because we want to divide it into 12
So we've got these lovely balls, they take no time to do at all.
Stuffing them is quite simple. You just take one of your little buns
Just pat it, you can stretch it a bit, it's quite forgiving
In the palm of your hand you make a natural
little dip, nice two heaped spoons
of these gorgeous filling
Goes in, it's really simple, not technical at all
just bring up the sides and pinch it
Now remember you have a raising agent in here
And as it cooks it will sponge up and it'll find it's natural, smooth, gorgeous sort of spherical shape
What I quite like to do is put it into these sort of large muffin papers
Okay it kind of does the job
So for a couple of minutes I'm just going to do that and then we can cook them
and there's the very last gorgeous little steamed bun
I have a wok here, I put about an inch
of water in the bottom here, turn that onto full whack
I want to get a celebration of greens going
We've got choy sum here, what I like to do is just bend it literally around our little steamer
You can put some lovely asparagus in,
sprouting brocollis, purple brocollis
all of these veggies are super high in vitamin C
you know antioxidants, you know so good
So look I'm going to put that on a high heat
steam helps to save nutrients when you're cooking veggies
So those veggies, I only want to cook those for about 4 - 4 and half minutes
And then those buns, 12 minutes
It's beautiful, time to serve up, I've got some lovely sweet chilli sauce here
fresh chilli there, toasted sesame seeds, spring onions, coriander
I've got some soy sauce here, I've got some hoisin, just have fun
Look, ones burst open becasse it was so excited
We've got our lovely greens, look at the colour there, just still full of life
Look at this.
Really beautiful
It's truly tasty and even though we've got the wholewheat in there
it's a little heavier but it's still soft and fluffy
which is really, really important, yum
Proper sort of comfort, naughty food but it's all, really, really healthy
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