Japanese Anime Pork Buns

These buns resemble steamed pork buns but for the steamed curry buns you can use any type of minced meat.

Japanese anime pork buns. The vinegar will create a whiter looking buns. Ingredients self rising flour 1 cup bread flour cup you can opt to use self rising flour only curry powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 pinch dry yeast 1 2 teaspoons sugar 2 tablespoons warm water cup canola oil 1 tablespoon. For the filling 1 2 medium size onion chopped 1 2 large leek only white light green part chopped 1 clove garlic 4 oz ground pork 1 tbsp soy sauce 1 tsp sake 1 2 tbsp sugar 1 8 tsp salt 1 4 tsp black pepper asian mustard or sriracha to your taste. It is a kind of chūka man 中華まん lit.

Place the buns on their squares of parchmentwax paper in the steamer and cover. I first tasted this in japan it warms you up on a cool day. I found this recipe by searching on the internet. Derived from 肉饅頭 niku meat manjū is a savoury japanese food made from flour dough and filled with cooked ground pork or other ingredients.

I was in heaven. Even now when i take a bite of onigiri or nikuman i m transported back to that first day in japan sitting tired and happy at our little kitchen table. Inside the bag were two onigiri japanese rice balls wrapped in seaweed and two nikuman japanese steamed pork buns simple food but total comfort food. Nikuman japanese steamed pork bun i love eating japanese steamed pork bun nikuman.

This is a steamed bun with a pork filling. And served with hot mustard and soy sauce it is perfection. Anime japanese pork buns. They taste very similar to the ones you get at chinese dim sum restaurants.