Flaky Baked Chicken Pastry(Siew Bao)

I have some leftover fried chicken thigh in the fridge. Usually the leftover fried chicken meat will get tough and hard after re-fried or re-heat for couple of times,right? Well,usually I just cook this leftover fried chicken with some vegetable and spicy chili or soy sauce,to create another dish for myself..But this time I decided to make Baked Chicken Pastry (Char Siew Bao) with this fried chicken..To my surprised this Baked Flaky Pastry Bun is good especially the pastry but hubby complaint the filling it's not sweet enough! *sigh*.We used to have Dim Sum triangle Roast Pork pastry(Char Siew Soh) that taste so sweet but he love it! I adapted this recipe from Patsie Chong cookbook..

Ingredients:
Water Dough:(A)
200 gm all purpose flour
60 gm shortening
2 tbsp granulated sugar
125 ml cold water

Oil Dough(B)
200 gm all purpose flour
160 gm shortening

(C) For Filling
2 cups of deboned left over fried chicken,cut small cube
1/2 cup green pea
1 medium onion,peeled and diced
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp sweet soy sauce
1 tbsp thick caramel sauce
2 tbsp corn flour + 2 tbsp cold water,mix well
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 cup water if necessary
1/4 tsp ground pepper
2 tbsp cooking oil
1 egg + 1 tbsp water for brushing
1/2 cup sesame seeds

Method:
1:Heat large skillet at medium high heat with oil,add in diced fried chicken and all the seasoning.Stir the ingredients well for 5 minutes ,then add in diced onion and green pea,stir-fry for another 2-3 minutes,check the seasoning,then dish out and set aside for cooling.

2:Knead (A) and (B) separately.I used Bread Machine to do the kneading work,lazy method but useful and easy.

3:Use a rolling pin to roll out (A) with the center thicker and the four edges thinner.Make (B) into a ball shape,then place (B) over the center of (A).Cover (A) over (B) and roll out,fold once.Turn the dough around and roll it out .Fold the dough 3 layers and roll out .Lasty fold the dough again roll one more time.Let it rest for 10 minutes.

4:Divide the dough into 18 portion,about 60 gm each.Flatten each portion in round shape and wrap filling in the center before pleat the opening together in flower shape.Brush egg wash on the top before sprinkle some sesame seeds.Bake for 30 minutes at 375 F.

fried chicken filling
roll out portion pastry dough

about 60gm dough

dough

wrapped chicken filling pastry bun

get ready for egg wash brushing

sprinkle with some sesame seeds

Note:

You can used any meat for the filling..any leftover is an ideal choice..