Purple sweet potato and jujube steamed buns

Overview

The nutritional value and efficacy of purple sweet potato have been widely recognized, and the charming purple color has evoked various associations with people's appetite.

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• all-purpose flour
• milk powder
• purple sweet potato
• seedless red dates
• white sugar
• yeast powder
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Cut the purple sweet potato into small pieces, add a small amount of water, cook it in the microwave on high heat for 3 minutes, and puree it with a food processor;

   

2. 2 Mix all ingredients except water evenly;

   

3. 3 Add appropriate amount of water and knead into a smooth dough, ferment at room temperature for 90 minutes;

   

4. 4 The fermented dough has a honeycomb-like internal structure;

   

5. 5 Sprinkle a layer of dry flour on the board, put the dough on it and knead to release the air, and knead in as much dry flour as possible;

   

6. 6 Roll the dough into pieces;

   

7. 7 Sprinkle a layer of dry flour, fold it, roll it out, and sprinkle dry flour, repeat this 5 or 6 times;

   

8. 8 Knead the dough into a ball again;

   

9. 9 Divide the dough into equal portions;

   

10. 10 Knead each ingredient into steamed buns and wrap a jujube inside;

    

11. 11 Steamed buns wrapped with dates;

    

12. 12 Cut the red dates into small strips;

    

13. 13 Use chopsticks to poke holes in the buns and insert date strips inside;

    

14. 14 Or use your fingers or tweezers to make a small circle and insert the jujube sticks. After everything is done, let it rest for 15 minutes;

    

15. 15 Bring the pot to a boil over high heat, turn to medium heat and steam for 15 minutes, turn off the heat and simmer for 3 minutes;

    

16. 16 Remove from pan and let cool on a rack.