Crab Xiao Loong Bao

By á-25087

Make your own Crab Xiao Loong Bao at home with this recipe. Perfect to make when you just want to spend some time in the kitchen making an amazing Chinese dish!

Ingredients

• DOUGH
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 2/3 cup boiling water
• 1/3 cup cold water
• FILLING
• 1/4 cup cooked crabmeat
• 3/4 pound of ground pork, not too lean
• 1 to 2 green onion minced
• 1 teaspoon minced ginger
• 1 tablespoon lite soy sauce
• 1/2 piece foo-yee (Cantonese), do-fu rou (Mandarin), or fermented tofu (English); this is optional, but it will give you that authentic shanghai taste
• 4 tablespoons of water or stock
• 1 tablespoons of sesame oil
• 1 tablespoons of rice wine, or shaoshing wine
• SAUCE
• 1 piece pork skin, about 1 lb
• Pork skin might be a bit hard to find, try 99 ranch market or Chinatown. Make sure it's pork skin and not pork belly. Pork skin should be only the skin of the pig with the fat removed.
• 3 cups of stock or water
• 1 green onion
• 2 slices of ginger

Preparation

Step 1

SAUCE:
Clean pork skin thoroughly and chopped into small chunks. Size of your thumb and place the green onion and ginger into a pot. Cook it on high until it boils and turn it down to medium low for 90 min. Drain the stock with a fine sieve into a bowl and discard pork skin and other juice ingredients. Place the cool juice into a flat pan or loaf pan and fridge it until it hardens. When the aspic hardens cut into small square sizes ½ x ½ x ½ inch.

DOUGH
Add boiling water to flour, mix with chopsticks or wooden spoon; then add cold water and knead it very well. Let it rest for 15 minutes covered with a cloth.

FILLING
Mix the filling ingredients together with hand or mixer until it is mixed into a paste like consistency.

MAKE THE BAO
Remove the dough to floured surface, knead again until smooth. Divide the dough into 40 pieces. Flatten each piece with hand and roll into 3” round thin pancake, place a little bit less than 1 tablespoon of filling in the center and place a piece of the aspic on top of the filling, now pinch and turn until seams are closed. Place it in a steamer and steam for 15 minutes.