Paddy Buns

Name: Paddy Buns
Prep time: 2 h 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 30 pcs
Ingredients: 5 1/3 cups (640 grams) flour; scant 2/3 cup (120 grams) Chaozhou brown sugar; 1 ½ teaspoons (6 grams) baking powder; 1 ½ teaspoons (8 milliliters) oil; 1 ½ teaspoons (6 grams) yeast; approximately 2/3 – almost a cup (160-200 millimeter) water; 7.05 ounces (200 grams) black glutinous rice; 1 ¾ cup (400 milliliters) rice-water (left over from soaking rice); 7.05 ounces (200 grams) brown rice; heaping ¾ cup (160 grams) sugar; 2/3 cup (160 milliliters) coconut water

Good-Looking, Sweet-Tasting

Paddy buns, also known as willow leaf buns, autumn leaf buns, and maple leaf buns, are especially popular because of their enticing appearance. Aside from their visual splendor, the buns' sweet brown sugar sticky rice filling can be quite addicting.

3 Tips to Make Delicious Paddy Buns

If you didn't save 1 ¾ cup (400 milliliters) rice-water after soaking the rice, you can just add fresh water.

The rice must be made sufficiently soft by steaming. If it is not soft enough, add a bit of water and steam some more. Only add the sugar and coconut water after the rice is adequately soft.

The dough wrapper should be thicker in the middle and slimmer around the edges, because when you wrap the filling to form the bun, the edges will overlap. Varying the thickness of the wrapper will ensure a uniformity of thickness for the completed bun.

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Servings : 30 pcs

Total Time : 2.5 hours

Ingredients

Dough Ingredients

5 ⅓ cups (640 grams) flour
scant 2/3 cup (120 grams) Chaozhou brown sugar
1 ½ teaspoons (6 grams) baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons (8 milliliters) oil
1 ½ teaspoons (6 grams) yeast
approximately 2/3 – almost a cup (160-200 millimeter) water

Filling Ingredients

7.05 ounces (200 grams) black glutinous rice
1 ¾ cups (400 milliliters) rice-water, left over from soaking rice
7.05 ounces (200 grams) brown rice
heaping ¾ cup (160 grams) sugar
2/3 cup (160 milliliters) coconut water

Please see measurements in grams to be more exact for all ingredients and seasonings.

Cooking Directions

Preparations

Wash black glutinous rice and brown rice. Soak in water for 6 hours. Strain water and set aside this rice-water for later.

How to make paddy bun filling

Place both types of soaked rice in cake pan. Add 1 ¾ cups (400 milliliters) rice-water. Steam for 30-40 minutes over high heat until rice is fluffy and soft. Add sugar and coconut water. Stir evenly. Steam again until sugar is completely dissolved. Remove and let cool. Refrigerate overnight.

How to make the dough

Mix flour and baking powder. Form a crevice in the center of this mixture. Add other dough ingredients into this crevice. Knead together to form a smooth, soft dough.

Divide dough into 30 pieces 1.12 ounces (32 grams) each. Use rolling pin to press each piece into a dough wrapper approximately 2 ⅓ inches in diameter and approximately 1/3 inch thick. The center of the wrapper should be thicker than the edges.

Put it all together

Add 1.12 ounces (32 grams) of filling to each wrapper. Fold into a bun. Place on parchment paper and let ferment for 1 hour. Place in steamer basket and steam for 6-7 minutes over high heat.