Chinese
Man Tou (Steamed Wheat Buns)
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Man Tou (Steamed Wheat Buns) is Chinese home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Arrange the frozen mantou in a steamer basket lined with parchment, leaving space between them to expand.
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Steam over boiling water for 6 minutes, or straight from frozen 8 minutes, until puffed and hot through.
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Let rest a minute off the heat before serving alongside the rest of the table.
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Man Tou (Steamed Wheat Buns), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Man Tou (Steamed Wheat Buns) carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Mi Fan (Chinese Steamed White Rice) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 270 kcal
- Protein
- 8 g
- Carbs
- 56 g
- Fat
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 360 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Man Tou (Steamed Wheat Buns) takes about 6 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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