Curried Beef Steamed Buns (includes video tutorial!)
Tender beef, soft and sweet onions, and fragrant curry--all bundled up in a fluffy and moist bread. This is a wonderful on-the-go breakfast or lunch, a satisfying after-school snack, and (dare I say it) probably a really good accompaniment for beer in the wee hours of the night. The inspiration for these buns comes from two sources: 1) my mother's steamed bread recipe from when I was little, and 2) a beef curry filling method/recipe from a prolific Taiwanese home cook whose house we went to for a party after Christmas this past year when visiting some family friends--this lady also was the maker of the original beef curry steamed buns we tasted a few years ago. I've been wanting to get the recipe for the filling for those buns ever since I tasted them originally, and it was an exciting day this holiday season when I finally met her again and got the inside scoop. As my mother's recipe consists of a list of 4 ingredients handwritten on a post-it (no instructions give...