Miso and Maple Pork Belly Bao Buns with Pickled Maple Cucumber - Maple from Canada

Ingredients

• 3 ⅓ cups plain flour
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tsp dried yeast
• 2 tbsp pure maple syrup (preferably amber syrup for its rich taste)
• 1 ⅘ cups whole milk
• 1 tbsp sunflower oil, plus extra for oiling your mixing bowl and brushing onto the buns
• 1 tbsp rice vinegar
• 1 tbsp plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 cucumber, sliced
• ⅔ cup pure maple syrup (preferably amber syrup for its rich taste)
• ⅔ cup white wine vinegar
• 2 garlic cloves
• 6 whole black peppercorns
• 3 ⅓ lbs pork belly
• ½ cup pure maple syrup (preferably amber syrup for its rich taste)
• 2 star anise
• ½ cup soy sauce
• ½ cup white wine
• ½ cup salt
• ½ cup maple sugar