Manapua Recipe

How to make it

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• Procedure for filling:
• 1. Dice char siu.
• 2. In a saucepan, heat oil and stir fry char siu for 20 seconds. Add onions, sugar, soy sauce and salt. Mix flour and cornstarch with water. Stir into char siu.
• 3. Cook until mixture thickens; cool.
• Procedure for dough:
• 4. Put three cups of the flour into a bowl. Cut in shortening. Stir in two Tbs. of the sugar.
• 5. Combine the remaining two Tbs. sugar with the yeast and add 1/3 cup of the warm water. Stir until yeast is dissolved. Add the remaining 1/2 cup flour; mix well.
• 6. Combine flour mixture, yeast mixture and remaining 2/3 cup water. Knead on lightly floured board five minutes or until the dough is smooth and elastic.
• 7. Place dough in greased bowl, cover with plastic and allow to rise until doubled in size, approximately one hour at room temperature.
• 8. Divide into 18 portions. Oil hands and flatten pieces of dough. Put about 1 Tbs See Photo. filling in center of dough. Form buns by pulling dough up and around filling. Pinch and seal seams.
• 9. Place on squares of waxed paper. Let rest 20-30 minutes. Place on rack and steam 15 minutes. Makes 15-18 buns. Serve with a hot cup of Chinese tea.
• Char Siu for Manapua See Photo
• This is an easy Char Siu recipe for Manapua, and worth the effort, if you can’t buy really good Char Siu where you live.
• Ingredients:
• • 1 lb. not too fatty, pork belly, or other slightly fatty pork cuts, unsliced with skin trimmed off.
• • 2 Tbs. Shaoxing Chinese cooking wine.
• • 2 Tbs. dark soy sauce, or substitute regular soy sauce.
• • 2 Tbs. raw sugar.
• • 2 cloves garlic, minced.
• • 1/2 Tbs. hoisin sauce.
• • 1/2 tsp. five-spice powder.
• • 2 Tbs. honey.
• Procedure:
• 1. In a large bowl, mix together the wine, dark soy sauce, sugar, garlic, hoisin sauce, and five-spice powder.
• 2. Rub the pork with the marinade mixture and marinate for 2 to 3 hours, re-rubbing once.
• 3. Preheat the oven to 300° F. (150⁰ C.) Rub the excess marinade off the pork belly (but don’t rub it all off!) and place in a roasting pan. Brush the top with the honey. Roast the pork for 1 hour, flipping over half-way through and brushing honey on the other side. The pork is done when the outsides begin to crisp and blacken, and the center of the pork strip feels firm. Remove the pork from oven and let it cool for a 5 to 10 minutes.
• 4. For Manapua filling, transfer to a cutting board and pull apart or chop fine.

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