【Tianjin】Flower Date Steamed Buns

【Tianjin】Flower Date Steamed Buns

Overview

A few days before the Spring Festival, every household begins to prepare steamed buns, usually for ten days and a week, and then everyone has time to visit each other. Celebrating festivals and eating are definitely inseparable. The colorful steamed buns are the icing on the cake.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Put the flour and yeast powder into a basin and knead the dough with 35-degree warm water. Not too soft.

    【Tianjin】Flower Date Steamed Buns step 1
  2. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let it rise in a warm place until doubled in size.

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  3. Pick out jujubes that are about the same size, put them in a pot of cold water and cook until the water boils.

    【Tianjin】Flower Date Steamed Buns step 3
  4. Take a small portion and knead it into colored dough and let it ferment.

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  5. Cut out pieces of the same size, roll them into long strips, and wrap the upright jujubes.

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  6. Divide the remaining dough into two parts, roll one part into a sheet first, don't make it too thin.

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  7. Make it as shown in the picture.

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  8. Then fill the space in the middle with dates.

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  9. Cover with another piece of rolled dough.

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  10. Put it in the pot first and then make the pattern.

    【Tianjin】Flower Date Steamed Buns step 10
  11. Start by drawing the child, then break it down into parts. Use raw dough to carve out the face and cocoa dough to make the hair.

    【Tianjin】Flower Date Steamed Buns step 11
  12. Clothes carved out of red dough.

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  13. As shown in the picture.

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  14. Then use green dough to carve out pants

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  15. Make facial features and red dough for shoes and firecrackers. When done, transfer to jujube steamed buns, put in cold water and steam for 25 minutes.

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  16. Just put it on the plate. Isn’t it full of flavor?

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