Traditional steamed Chinese buns (or Baos) are no-doubt delicious, but can be an intimidating meal to take on at home. What I bet you never thought to do is replace the normally handmade dough with a store bought biscuit dough. I know it’s kind of cheating, but it will save you probably three or four hours and you won’t be able to tell the difference.
Teriyaki Chicken Buns
- Prep Time:30 minutes
- Cook Time:20 minutes
- Total Time:50 minutes
- Servings:16 steamed buns
- Easy
- 1 lb chicken
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- 2 tablespoon water mixed with cornstarch
- 1 bunch chives
- 1 can biscuit dough
Ingredients
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Step 1
Cut the chicken into tenderloin sized pieces (or just buy chicken tenderloins like I did) and boil them for 5 minutes until cooked through.
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Step 2
While the chicken is cooking, build the teriyaki sauce. Add the soy sauce, water, vinegar, sugar, garlic, ginger and cornstarch mixture in a sauce pan. Bring it to a simmer and whisk together until the sauce thickens.
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Step 3
Mince the chives and set aside.
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Step 4
Shred the chicken and mix it together with 2/3 of the teriyaki sauce and roughly 3/4 of the chives.
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Step 5
Cut the biscuits in half so that there are 16 small balls of dough. On a floured surface roll out the balls until flat.
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Step 6
Add the chicken mixture and wrap the dough around it, pinching at the top to seal.
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Step 7
Place the buns in either a steamer on top of a regular pot of boiling water.
#SpoonTip: It can help if you spray the steamer basket with cooking spray so that it’s easier to get them out afterwards.
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Step 8
Steam the buns for about 20 minutes.
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Step 9
Serve the buns with the rest of the chives and sauce on the side.
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