Red Yeast Rice Santa Claus Pasta

Overview

Red yeast rice strengthens the spleen, replenishes qi, and warms the body. It is an excellent warming food in winter. Its nature and flavor are sweet and warm; it returns to the liver, spleen, stomach and large intestine meridians; it has the effects of strengthening the spleen, digesting food, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis. In the masterpiece "Compendium of Materia Medica Monascus" edited by Li Shizhen, there are several good treatment methods containing red yeast ingredients, which shows that red yeast rice is a good food material with the same origin as medicine and food. But how to eat red yeast rice is not well known by people. I have researched a variety of pasta myself, and incorporating it into pasta is definitely a good way.

Tags

• pasta
• private kitchen
• children
• breakfast
• christmas
• aluminum-free baking powder
• black beans
• flour
• red yeast rice
• yeast
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare materials. Flour: 500g (divided into two parts, one part is 300g, used for making white dough; the other part is 200g, used for making red dough)

   

2. 2 Red yeast rice: 25g, yeast: 5g, aluminum-free baking powder: 3g, black beans: a few grains, water: appropriate amount

   

3. 3 Press the red yeast rice into powder, add water and boil, filter out the residue with gauze, leave the red yeast rice water, and set aside to warm. You can also buy ready-made red yeast rice powder and mix it directly with the noodles. I feel that the red yeast rice water I make is more reliable.

   

4. 4 Kneading dough and fermenting. Divide 500g of flour into two parts: one 300g for the white dough and one 200g for the red dough. Add yeast: 3g and baking powder: 2g into the white dough. Stir evenly and then add warm water to knead the dough. Add yeast: 2g and baking powder: 1g into the red dough. Stir evenly and then add warm red yeast rice water to knead the dough. Cover the kneaded dough with a moist drawer cloth and place it in a warm place to ferment. It will be ready when the dough has fermented to 1.5 to 2 times its original size.

   

5. 5 We divide the white dough into 5 parts as shown in the picture. 1#2# dough is the same size, 3#4# is the same size, 5# is the smallest.

   

6. 6 We divide the red dough into 3 parts as shown in the picture. Among them, 7# is the smallest.

   

7. 7 Flatten the #1 dough for face making and set aside.

   

8. 8 Roll the long beard #2 dough into an oval shape. Spread a thin layer of flour on the upward side and fold it in half.

   

9. 9 Use a knife to cut out thin strips perpendicular to the fold line, leaving one side uncut.

   

10. 10 Pull up a thin strip and twist it in a spiral shape from the beginning to the end. Each one is made in the same way, and Santa's beard will be formed.

    

11. 11 Roll out the #6 dough used to make the hat into a large round piece, and roll it out slightly thinner on all sides.

    

12. 12 Roll up one side, just twice, and the brim will be shaped.

    

13. 13 Place the hat on your face, covering about a quarter of your face, and fold the two ends of the brim back to secure it to the back of your face.

    

14. 14 Fold the round left and right sides of the hat back. Now you can see the triangle of the hat?

    

15. 15 Pull the top of the hat toward the brim to make it feel like the tip of the hat is hanging down. Glue the hat ball #3 dough to the top. You can apply a little water to stick it firmly.

    

16. 16 Assemble the long beard on your face. According to the curvature of the chin, stick the beard firmly to the lower edge of the face, and pay attention to tighten and reinforce both ends.

    

17. 17 Roll the two pieces of dough #5 into a long strip, thin in the middle and thin at the two tops.

    

18. 18 Glue the nose #7 dough to the center of the face. Pick two black beans of the same size to make the eyes and place them in a suitable position. After confirming that the facial features are beautiful, press the black beans. Be sure to press them so that the black beans sink into the noodles so that the steamed eyes will not fall off. Glue the two mustaches between the nose and the beard.

    

19. 19 Gather the 5# and 8# two-color dough of the crutch into long strips, twist them together into a twist shape, and pinch both ends to prevent them from spreading.

    

20. 20 Make the twist strips into the shape of a cane.

    

21. 21 After the second fermentation, observe that the volume of the dough increases and the surface of the dough is fluffy and rises. Put it in the pot. After boiling the pot, steam it over high heat for 15 minutes until it is cooked (END)