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14-SEP-2008:

Last week, I craved for Seremban Siew Pau, so yesterday I made them. I found the recipe below at someone's blog - I can't even remember whose blog was it now - and I have to say the Siew Pau turned out really delicious! I was very, very surprised. When I bit into the Pau, the flaky "skin" came off in layers, just like the real deal.

Below, the recipe yields 56 Pau's but I cut the ingredients into 1/4 and made 14 instead. We finished all in one day, but then they were very tiny ones. It's not really difficult if you follow the steps closely. The difficult part (for me) was shaping the Pau's into a nice Pau shape. As you can see, I did a horrible job. :p

Oil Dough

• 340g plain flour
• 220g shortening / lard - (I used butter)

Water Doug

• 550g plain flour
• 150g castor sugar - this means fine sugar if you don't know what it means
• 160ml vegetable oil
• 240ml iced water
• 2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp golden syrup - I have no idea what this is, so I substituted with vanilla extract

Glaze

• 2 egg yolks

Method:

1. Process the oil dough ingredients in a food processor. Scale it into 20 gm balls.
2. Process the water dough ingredients in food processor. Scale it into 40 gm balls.
3. Wrap oil dough inside water dough.
4. Roll it flat. Then roll it up like swiss roll. Repeat this 3 times.
5. Repeat step 4 with all the pieces of dough.
6. Cut each piece of dough into 2.
7. Roll out each pieces and put in filling.
8. Preheat oven to 190 C and bake 10 mins
9. Remove from oven, glaze with egg yolk and bake another 20 mins.

For the filling:

• 300 gm Char Siew, finely diced - I used raw chicken breast meat instead.
• 3 tbsp sugar - I used more because I like it sweet
• 1 tbsp flour
• 3/4 cup water - 1 cup = 240ml, so do your own calculation
• 1 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tsp dark soy sauce - omitted this one, didn't have any
• 4 chopped shallots
• 1/2 cup green peas
• 2 tbsp oil

The Steps:

1. Saute shallot in oil.
2. Add flour, cook until browned.
3. Add Char Siew.
4. Add water, all sauces and sugar.
5. Cook until gluey.
6. Add green peas.
7. Cool it before wrapping the Pau.

# posted by Skye @ 6:31 pm