Flower shaped bean paste buns

Overview

Among Chinese pastries, my baby’s favorite is bean paste buns. But the bean paste must be made by yourself, because the bean paste made by yourself can control the amount of oil and sugar, and it will not be sweet or greasy. However, frying red bean paste is a very hard work, especially in this high temperature of 36 degrees. One person is stuck in the kitchen, stirring constantly with a silicone spatula, and is sweating. As a senior foodie, in order to eat comfortably and healthily, it is worth the hard work. Today's red bean paste buns are shaped like pumpkins. They are so beautiful! On a hot summer day, a bowl of millet porridge and soft bean paste buns for breakfast would be nutritious and delicious! Let’s make healthy food!

Tags

• staple food
• pasta
• home cooking
• steamed buns
• all-purpose flour
• cranberry
• red bean paste
• yeast
• fine sugar
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Put flour, yeast, fine sugar and water into the bread machine, stir it with chopsticks, start the bread machine at low speed and knead into a ball, then turn it to high speed to knead into a smooth dough.

   

2. 2 Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let it rest for about five minutes before shaping.

   

3. 3 Roll the dough into a rectangular shape, fold the dough from 1/3 of one end toward the middle, and fold the other end from 1/3 to the middle, then roll it out again, repeat the previous action, six or more times in a row.

   

4. 4 Spray some water on the surface of the dough, thin the bottom edge, and roll it up tightly from top to bottom.

   

5. 5 After rolling into a cylinder, gently knead the dough from the center to both sides into a long strip of even thickness.

   

6. 6 Use a spatula to cut the dough into 14 equal parts.

   

7. 7 Pat a little flour on your hands, flatten the dough from the cut surface with your hands and press it into a round cake shape.

   

8. 8 Use a rolling pin to roll the dough into a thick middle and thin around the edges, and roll it out one by one.

   

9. 9 Take out the prepared red bean paste from the refrigerator and roll it into balls.

   

10. 10 Put red bean paste in the middle of the dough.

    

11. 11 Shape it like you would pinch the pleats of a steamed bun, and close and glue it together.

    

12. 12 After wrapping all the fillings, place them with the seams facing down.

    

13. 13 Gently flatten the dough with your hands and divide the round dough into four equal parts with a triangular serrated board.

    

14. 14 Then divide the four equal parts in half, and divide them into eight equal parts in total. After all the buns are fully formed, place the steamed bun embryos in a steamer lined with steamer paper, cover with a damp cloth for final fermentation, about 15-20 minutes.

    

15. 15 After fermentation, place chopped cranberries (or dried blueberries) in the middle of the buns.

    

16. 16 Pour cold water into the pot. After the water boils, steam over medium-high heat for about 15 minutes. Turn off the heat and simmer for 3 minutes before removing from the pot.

    

17. 17 Aren’t the red bean paste buns delicious😄

    

18. 18 The homemade bean paste has less sugar and oil and tastes great!

    

19. 19 Red bean paste buns for breakfast today😊