A steamed bun cosplayed into a pumpkin

Overview

Is there anyone who loves pumpkins as much as I do? It’s golden and sweet, looks good and tastes good, and is low in calories and high in fiber, so it’s the best thing to eat without getting fat! But there are people in my family who are the opposite to me. They shy away from pumpkins when they see them. I bought three small pumpkins last time. I ate two of them off and on by myself, and the remaining one was kept in the refrigerator for a long time. Okay, if you don’t want to eat the pumpkin directly, let’s just eat it indirectly and make it into steamed buns, right? The steaming method also retains the nutritional content of the pumpkin to the greatest extent. Look~ this appearance is quite pleasing!

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• children
• steamed bun hanamaki
• fast food
• lunch
• flour
• pumpkin puree
• yeast

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 300g pumpkin puree, let it cool to hand temperature, then add 4g yeast and mix well. You can steam the pumpkin or add water and cook it in the microwave. Just peel it and mash it into puree.

   

2. 2 Add 500g flour and knead into a stiff dough. The water content of each pumpkin is different. I just can form a ball without adding water here. The specific operation can be more flexible. Cover with plastic wrap and leave in a warm place to ferment. In the photo taken at night, the light was not very good and the dough turned white. In fact, it is not that white!

   

3. 3 Just make it 1.5-2 times as big as this~

   

4. 4 After exhausting, divide it into 12 parts almost evenly.

   

5. 5 Take one portion and make it like a regular steamed bun. You need to knead it for a while, so that the steamed skin will be delicate and shiny.

   

6. 6 Flatten slightly.

   

7. 7 Dang Dang Dang! Use five-flowered cotton thread to tie it up ~ cross it and tie it back and forth, and tie it loosely ~

   

8. 8 Arrange them in sequence and put them into a pot covered with steaming cloth. The steaming cloth needs to be wet so that it will not stick to the bottom of the steamed buns. You can cover the pot and let it rise for a while. It's summer now, just ten or twenty minutes. You can see that the cotton thread is already somewhat embedded in the dough, so it must be tied loosely in the front.

   

9. 9 Pour cold water into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium-low heat. Just steam it for another twenty minutes and it’s ready! Turn off the heat and simmer for three to four minutes.

   

10. 10 Get out of the pot! Looks good!