Homemade Steamed Buns
These adorable porcupine buns are a delightful treat for both kids and adults. Soft and fluffy bread filled with a sweet coconut mixture, shaped into cute porcupine shapes that are as fun to make as they are to eat. Steamed to perfection, these buns are a charming addition to any meal or gathering.
Serve them warm and watch the smiles light up the faces of your family and friends. Enjoy the playful and delicious flavors of these porcupine buns!
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- * FOR THE BUNS:
- * 250 grams Bread Flour
- * 6 grams Sugar
- * 5 grams Yeast, Active Dry
- * 1/2 teaspoons Salt To Taste
- * 1 teaspoon Olive Oil
- * 130 milliliters Water
- * _____
- * FOR THE FILLING:
- * 50 milliliters Coconut Pani Or Coconut Treacle
- * 1/4 teaspoons Cinnamon
- * 1/2 teaspoons Sugar
- * 100 grams Desiccated Coconut
Instructions
- Sift the flour. In a mixing bowl combine the flour, sugar, yeast and salt. Mix well about 1 minute. Pour in olive oil and water. Mix well. Now clean your dry working surface and knead by hand about 10 minutes.
- Cover the dough and let rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes. After that, punch the dough down and make 15 round lemon-sized balls.
- Now take out each ball and roll out with a rolling pin until you get a disk (2 1/2-inch diameter and 1/4-inch thick).
- To make the coconut filling, in a thick-bottomed pan, put coconut pani, cinnamon and sugar and bring to a boil (you need it to be around 100 C degrees so use a thermometer). Then add the pani mixture to the desiccated coconut and mix well. Let cool.
- Now place about 1 teaspoon of sweet coconut mixture in the middle of each disk. Roll into a ball. Next shape the dough into a oval shape. Using sharp scissors, snip the top of the dough to form prickles to shape it like a porcupine.
- Now put the porcupine on top of oil paper or baking paper. Place porcupine buns in a steamer and steam over a pan of boiling water for about 10 minutes. When the porcupine buns are cooked, remove from the steamer and place on a dish
- After that, you can decorate the porcupine buns with eyes, a mouth and whiskers. I have done so in the photo using food coloring for the eyes and mouth and coconut husk for the whiskers.
- Serve warm.
- Enjoy.
Yield
Serves 15
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