List of steamed foods

This is a list of steamed foods and dishes that are typically or commonly prepared by the cooking method of steaming.

Steamed foods

• Ada – a food item from Kerala, usually made of rice flour with sweet filling inside.
• Bánh – in Hanoi Vietnamese, translates loosely as "cake" or "bread", referring to a wide variety of prepared foods.^[1] Some varieties are cooked by steaming.
  • Bánh bò – a steamed sponge cake
  • Bánh bột lọc
  • Bánh chuối hấp – literally "steamed banana cake"
  • Bánh cuốn
  • Bánh da lợn – a steamed layer cake
  • Bánh khoai mì hấp
  • Bánh tẻ

• Chinese steamed eggs – eggs are beaten to a consistency similar to that used for an omelette and then steamed
• Corunda
• Couscous
• Dhokla
• marinated
  in a sauce or soup
  • Agujjim
  • Andong jjimdak
  • Galbijjim – a variety of jjim or Korean steamed dishes made with galbi
    (갈비, short rib)
  • Gyeran jjim – a Korean steamed egg casserole, which is a popular dish in Korea and often eaten as a side dish (banchan
    )
• Kue lapis – Indonesian kue, or a traditional snack of colorful layered soft rice flour pudding or steamed layered cake
• Idli – a dish prepared from rice and black gram part of Udupi cuisine.
• Kwacoco – pureed cocoyam wrapped and steamed in banana leaves
• Lemper
• Nasi campur
• Nasi lemak – a fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaf commonly found in Malaysia, where it is considered the national dish,^[3] and the Riau Province of Indonesia.

• Pitha – some varieties are steamed
  • Enduri Pitha
  • Manda Pitha
  • Tekeli pitha
• Putu mayam
• Puttu
• Hong Kong, commonly served either as a snack, small meal or as a variety of dim sum.^[4]
• Korean traditional dishes made by steaming vegetables such as zucchini, cucumber, eggplant, or Napa cabbage that are stuffed with fillings
• Steamed rice
• Tamales
  – a Mexican and Central American dish of Pre-Columbian origins made with a corn-based dough and a variety of fillings, usually wrapped in banana leaf or corn husks
• Tofu skin roll – The bamboo steamed version is generally known as sin zuk gyun
• Urap

Breads

• Dombolo – a traditional South African steamed bread
• Mantou – a type of cloud-like steamed bread or bun popular in Northern China.^[5]
• Steamed bread – produced and consumed all around the world
  • Tingmo – a steamed bread in Tibetan cuisine.^[6]
  • Wotou – a type of steamed bread made from cornmeal in Northern China
  • Milk roll – a steamed bread roll originating in Blackpool, Lancashire^[7]

Buns and rolls

• Bánh bao
• Baozi
  • Bakpau
  • Cha siu bao
  • Goubuli
  • Shengjian mantou
  • Siopao
  • Tangbao – large, soup-filled type of steamed buns in Chinese cuisine
  • Xiaolongbao
• Da Bao
• Dampfnudel
• Hoppang
• Jjinppang
• Lotus seed bun
  • Longevity peach
• Mandarin roll – a kind of steamed bun originating in China
• Nikuman

Cakes

• Bánh bèo
• black lentils
  (de-husked) and rice. Idli is a traditional breakfast in Indian households, and is also popular throughout India and neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka.
  • Rava idli
• Khanom sai bua
• Kue putu – a traditional cylindrical-shaped and green-colored steamed cake.^[8] It is consumed in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
• Nagasari – a traditional steamed cake made from rice flour, coconut milk and sugar, filled with slices of banana.^[9]
• Nian gao
• Red tortoise cake
• Taro cake – typically steamed or fried
• Treacle sponge pudding – a traditional British dessert dish consisting of a steamed sponge cake with golden syrup cooked on top of it, often served with hot custard poured atop
• Turnip cake
• Uirō
• White sugar sponge cake

Confectionery and sweets

• Mont-phat-htoke
• Karukan
• Kue and Kuih
  • Clorot
  • Kue mangkok
  • Kue putu mangkok
  • Seri Muka
• Lucky tattie
• Put chai ko

Custards

• egg custard dish found in Japan.^[10]

• Makassar people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia
• Buuz
• Germknödel
• Jiaozi
• Lepet
• Mandu (dumpling)
  • Eomandu
• Momo (dumpling)
  – a type of steamed bun in Tibetan cuisine with or without filling
• Patrode
• Indonesian steamed fish dumpling with vegetables served in peanut sauce. It is derived from Chinese Shumai.^[11]

• Chinese-Indonesian
  steamed chicken rice dish
• Steamed cheeseburger – a hamburger sandwich topped with cheese that is steamed in a specially made cabinet and mainly available in the state of Connecticut in the United States
• Steamed clams – clams are steamed according to many different recipes in different regions
• Steamed meatball – a Cantonese dim sum dish^[12]

Puddings

• Cabinet pudding
• Chocolate pudding – a steamed/baked version, texturally similar to cake, is popular in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand
• Custard – some custards are prepared by steaming
• Figgy pudding – sometimes cooked by steaming
• Moin moin
• Persimmon pudding
• Steak and kidney pudding
• Sticky toffee pudding
• Suet pudding
  • Christmas pudding
  • Fruit hat (pudding)
  • Jam Roly-Poly
  • raisins) and often served with custard
• Sussex Pond Pudding

Some varieties of rice cakes are steamed.

• Bánh chưng
• cuisine of Singapore and Johor
• Mont-sein-paung – a type of steamed rice cake, sometimes with jaggery added, served with coconut flakes and pounded sesame. Found throughout Myanmar.
• Philippine cuisine derived from Indian puttu
  of [Malayalam] origin.
  • Kutsinta – a type of puto found throughout the Philippines
• Sanna (dish)
• Suman
• Tteok – also see List of tteok varieties
  • Injeolmi
  • Jeungpyeon
  • Mujigae tteok
  • Sirutteok
  • Songpyeon
• Bhapa/ Tekeli pitha – Steamed rice cakes stuffed with grated coconut, jaggery and sesame seeds found throughout Bengal and Assam.

Gallery

• 
  Gyeran jjim
• 
  Idli with chutney and sambar
• 
  Kue lapis
• 
  Kue putu being steamed
• 
  Mandarin rolls
• 
  Steamed clams
• 
  A steamed rice cake
• 
  Rice noodle rolls with a sauce
• 
  Spotted dick

See also

• Double steaming
• Food steamer
• List of deep fried foods
• List of twice-baked foods
• Pudding basin – a bowl or vessel that is specifically used to steam puddings

References

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