Siew Bao / Flaky Roast Chicken Buns

Ingredients

For the Chicken filling

• 300g chicken meat (I use skinless chicken thigh), cubed small
• 80g onion, chopped
• 40g frozen green peas, thawed

Seasonings

• 1 tsp salt
• 2 ½ tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce

½ tbsp sesame oil

• 1tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tsp dark soy sauce
• 1 tsp dark caramel soy sauce, optional (I used ABC Sweet dark sauce)
• A pinch of Chinese five-spices powder
• ½ tbsp corn flour + 1 tbsp water, to thicken

Dough A (Water dough)

• 200g plain flour
• 60g butter (salted), at room temperature
• 2tbsp caster sugar
• 100g water

Dough B (oil dough)

• 160g plain flour
• 100g shortening ( I used only 50g Organic Coconut Oil ~ Coconut oil tends to be more oilier than normal oil)
• Egg wash (egg yolk +water), white sesame seeds

Directions

Mix all seasonings in a mixing bowl, set aside.

1. Heat 3 tbsp cooking oil in a non-stick frying pan, add in onion, sauté till fragrant.
2. Add in chicken meat, stir fry till the meat half cooked.
3. Add in seasonings, continue stir fry for few minutes till thicken.
4. Add in the grean peas and stir till everything incorporated in.
5. Add in corn flour water to thicken in, set aside to cool.

Dough A

1. Rub butter with flour and sugar, slowly add in water, combine till form dough, set aside 10mins.

Dough B

1. Rub shortening (I used coconut oil) with flour, combine till form dough, set aside for 10mins.
2. Equally divide dough A and B into 20 portions and roll into ball
3. Wrap dough B with dough A (that means oil dough is inside). Roll it out into long rectangle shape. Then roll up the dough like swiss roll. Repeat this step one more time. Then take the swiss roll and pinch two ends together and roll into ball shape. Set aside to rest and repeat the rest of dough till finished.
4. Roll it out into a circle and place a spoonful the filling in the center. Bring all edges together and pinch to seal.
5. Egg wash and bake in preheated oven at 200C for 15 minutes.
6. Take out the baking tray, egg wash again and sprinkle some sesame seeds on top (do it one by one: egg wash one sprinkle sesame seeds), and return to oven at 200C for another 15mins or till golden brown.