LET'S COOK 🍳
- Mix together the flour, caster sugar, yeast and salt in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre and pour in the milk, sunflower oil, vinegar and water. Mix into a rough dough.
- Tip the dough onto a clean work surface and knead for 10 minutes until smooth (or about 5 minutes in a food mixer using a dough hook). Put in a lightly oiled bowl, cover and leave to rise until doubled in size. Depending on the temperature in your kitchen, this might take several hours.
- Tip the dough out and knock the air out of it. Press the dough with your hands into a rough rectangle about 1cm thick. Sprinkle the baking powder over the surface of the dough and knead again for 5 mins (2 minutes in the food mixer).
- Pinch off small pieces of dough (you want little balls about the size of a Lindt truffle)*. Flatten into a rough circle and then pull the edges into the centre and pinch to make a ball. Roll the ball under caged fingers against the worktop to create a nice smooth shape. (*If you have digital scales and like uniformity – each dough ball should be about 12g)
- Place each dough ball on a small square of parchment paper (you should end up with around 30 balls) Cover with a damp tea-towel and leave to double in size again.
- Fill a medium size saucepan with water and bring to the boil.
- Place your dough balls (on the parchment paper squares) into bamboo steamers with plenty of space in-between (you should fit about 4-6 in each depending on the size of your balls/steamers).
- Place the steamer(s) on top of the pan and steam for 4 minutes. Remove from the pan but leave the lid on the steamer for another 4 minutes before removing.
- Keep going until all of your buns are steamed.
- For Gochujang sauce, put all of the ingredients in a small pan and bring to the boil, mixing constantly. Reduce the heat and let the sauce bubble away for a few minutes until nice and thick.
- Cook your chicken nuggets / veggie bites / favourite fried chicken recipe. Cut into bite sized pieces (to fit the size of your buns) and toss in the sticky gochujang sauce.
- Slice the buns in half (I found that a small serrated cheese knife was the best tool for this job).
- Add a generous spoonful of Kimchi Mayo to the base of each bun followed by a piece of BBQ chicken and finally pop on the lid. Fix everything together with a cocktail stick.
