Taiwan

Ba Wan

Name: Ba Wan
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 6 pieces
Cuisine: Taiwan
Ingredients: 150 g Sweet potato starch; 50 g Rice flour; 250 g Pork; some of each Bamboo shoots & shiitake; some of each Soy sauce & five-spice; as desired Red rice sauce (topping)

Taiwanese dumpling with a glassy skin

Ba wan is a large Taiwanese dumpling with a translucent, chewy skin of sweet potato and rice starch.

Filled with pork and bamboo, it comes from Changhua and is served with a sweet-savoury red sauce.

Servings6 pieces

Time60 min

LevelAdvanced

Ingredients

Sweet potato starch150 g
Rice flour50 g
Pork250 g
Bamboo shoots & shiitakesome of each
Soy sauce & five-spicesome of each
Red rice sauce (topping)as desired

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Marinate the pork with bamboo and spices.
Mix starch and rice flour with water into a sticky batter.
Put a layer of batter in a bowl, place filling on top.
Cover with batter and steam until the skin is translucent.
Douse with red sauce and serve.

Make it original

Sweet potato starch for ba wan is in the Asia Boutique.

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