June Cooking Class: Baked Manapua with Bro. Chan

We were so fortunate to have Bro. Chan teaching us this evening. He showed us how to make baked manapua. It was so incredibly delicious that it really inspired me to want to go home and make some too. I have never tasted manapua so delicious. Bro. Chan showed us how to make the small manapuas, it was the perfect size.

Here is the baked char siu manapua.

And here is the baked hotdog manapua.
So this is how it is done.
After the dough is ready, roll it into a log. Sorry the pictures are sometimes a little blurry, because Bro. Chan moves fast. He is very experienced, so everything is so quick.
Keep rolling out your log till it is about this long.
Use a scale and weigh each piece. Each piece should be 2 ounces.
Here are the cut pieces, ready to roll into balls.
Roll each piece into nice little balls.
Then flatten each ball with your hand and roll out a nice little circle.

Using a cookie scoop, measure one spoon onto the circle
Roll up the sides to close gap
Roll again so that the bottom closes nicely.
Add waxed paper to the bottoms and there you have your first manapua.
Next Bro. Chan showed us how to make hotdog manapua. Using the same two ounce balls, roll out to a long snake. Wrap it around a hotdog.


And here it is, the hot dog manapua
and then begin another snake and repeat the process.


Thanks Bro. Chan, If you weren't at the cooking class, you certainly missed out because this manapua was so good, I felt like I was in manapua heaven. And I usually don't even like my manapua baked. You are so wonderful, Bro. Chan!

Recipe coming soon.