Green Tea Man Tou (Green Tea Steamed Buns)

[thanislim]

Green Tea Steamed Buns
425g All Purpose Flour
75 g Wheat Starch (You can also use Corn Starch)
30-50g Green Tea powder – depends on how strong you want your green tea taste.
A pinch of salt

Pulse the above ingredients on turbo a few times to mix – then add in the following
40g sugar
2 tablespoon yeast (I used instant yeast with added ascorbic acid)
30g grapeseed oil
270g Water

Put on 37 degrees mode – and knead mode for 5-6 minutes.
Take out dough – roll into a long dough – cut into many buns.
Line the buns on parchment paper on a steamer to prevent sticking – you don’t need to oil the parchment paper as you can peel them off before eating.
Let it rest for 30 mins before steaming

Steaming time usually takes 15-20 minutes.

Note: Usually I will replace 100g of the water with milk - it tastes better but a member of my family is lactose intolerant -- so I omitted the milk.

Bon Appetit!
 
   

The Dough



Shaping the dough into a long dough then cut



Will post the final results after they're out of the steamer!

[thermoheaven]

Beautiful looking dough you have there, thanis. will you put a filling in the buns before steaming?

[thanislim]

You can definitely put fillings in the dough - whatever will go well with green tea flavour -- I would use red bean paste -- as green tea ice cream in sushi restaurants is usually accompanied with azuki red beans.

I don't have red bean paste or lotus paste on hand so I decided to just eat them plain -- which is good enough

Good luck!

[cookie1]

I love the colour and the helpful photos.

[FaithHopeLove]

Hello Thanislim,

I have made the green tea man tou, but hmmm~ I am not sure whether something went wrong or what? the taste a bit weird for mine.. is it bcoz of the green tea powder?? Pls help~

[goldfish]

Another name for the green tea powder is "matcha"... a Japanese ingredient. ( not to be confused with green tea leaves) .  This sounds wonderful! Will try to have a go at this at the weekend....

[kmw]

Love green tea particularly green tea kit kats (which I've only be able to get in Japan) ... will have to add this to the long list of things to try

[cookie1]

We have some Matcha in the cupboard. DD loves it, though I must admit it is not my favourite thing. We may try these.