My Children's Favourite - "Miku"

"Miku" was introduced by their grandmother at a Taiping market.  Today, my children loves this as snacks. They even pack them to school for recess. 

"Miku" is a pink coloured "pau" bun. It is delicious eaten plain or fried in slices "french toast" style or eaten with dishes as "man-tau". A special from nyonya kitchen stories.

Ingredients:

1kg plain floor

11g instant yeast

200g sugar

100g corn oil (1/2 cup)

460g water (2 1/2 cups)

4 pandan leaves (screwpine)

Method

1. Boil pandan leaves with sugar in water. Leave to cool.

2. Mix flour and yeast together. 

3. Knead flour mixture, water and corn oil together for 15 mins. Use dough hook of cake mixer.

3. Scale dough to 100g each and leave to rest for 10 mins.

4. Roll dough with rolling pin and fold in both ends. Roll again and fold in the other 2 ends. Place each dough on a piece of greaseproof paper.

5. Allow dough to rise for 35 min.

6. Brush surface with (diluted) pink colouring.

7. Steam over high heat for 15 mins.

Presentation

The above quantity makes 18 pieces of "Miku". 

Try it. I would love to hear of your experiment with "Miku"

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