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Bao Buns with Chicken and Soy-Sesame Sauce

Crispy chicken tossed in Beijing8 Soy Sesame sauce, stuffed into warm bao buns and topped with a fresh cucumber salad.

4 servings · Beijing8 bao buns and Soy Sesame

Ingredients

Chicken

  • 450 g chicken thighs
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp paprika powder
  • 2 dl cornstarch
  • 1 l frying oil
  • 190 ml Beijing8 Soy Sesame sauce

Garnish

  • 2 tbsp sesame seeds (preferably a mix of white and black)
  • 1 cucumber
  • 30 g spring onions

Buns

  • Beijing8 bao buns

Method

  1. 01Toast the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan until golden.
  2. 02Julienne the cucumber and thinly slice the spring onions. Combine the cucumber, spring onions, and sesame seeds in a bowl.
  3. 03Cut each chicken thigh fillet into 6 pieces and season with salt and paprika powder.
  4. 04Coat the chicken in cornstarch and deep-fry at 160 degrees until cooked through and crispy.
  5. 05Place the fried chicken in a bowl, add about 1 dl of the soy-sesame sauce, and toss to coat.
  6. 06Steam the bao buns according to the package instructions.
  7. 07Fill the warm bao buns with the chicken and top with the cucumber salad. Drizzle with a little extra sauce if you like.

Recipe demonstrated by Christin Kashou from Beijing8 in a post with Mathem.

See the original post on Instagram