Butterfly Steamed Dumplings

Name: Butterfly Steamed Dumplings
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 200g Flour; Some Carrot stuffing; 1g salt; 10g Vegetable oil for flour; 2 pcs Pitaya peel

by meggy dancing apple

4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

30m

Serving

1

Pitaya peel is rich in anthocyanins. Anthocyanins can effectively remove free radicals in the body and have detoxification effects. After the dragon fruit is eaten, the fresh peel can stay, remove the outer crusty, cut into pieces, add water to make a paste. Knead the noodles directly to make noodles. After cooking, the color will remain and become powdery. If you boil the paste of the dragon fruit peel and then knead the dough, it will become hot dough. The finished product will lose a lot of color, but the steamed dumplings or pancakes made from the hot dough will be very soft and will not be too hard to bite even if it is let cool. So if you want to reuse the pitaya peel, you can use which method you want.

Today’s steamed dumplings still use colorful dough, but this article only presents the making of pitaya dough and butterfly steamed dumplings. Other dough making can be seen in my other articles

Ingredients

Butterfly Steamed Dumplings

1. Remove the crusty outside of the two pitaya

2. Cut into small pieces

3. Put it into a cooking cup, add a proper amount of water to make a paste

4. Filter out the residue with a piece of gauze

5. Leave a delicate paste to knead the dough

6. The pitaya paste is boiled in a milk pan, and then an appropriate amount is added to the flour

7. Use chopsticks to stir evenly without dry powder, knead when it is warm to your hands

8. Take out the dough, place it on the table, add 10 grams of vegetable oil to knead and moisturize

9. Round the dough and place it in a bowl, cover it with plastic wrap, and use it for 15 minutes

10. Take an appropriate amount of dough, knead it into long strips, cut into small doses, take a small dose, and roll it into a small round crust of the same thickness

11. As shown in the figure, the two measurements are folded towards the center respectively

12. Turn the dough over and put a little carrot stuffing in the middle. The carrot stuffing is sweet, just add a little bit of flavor to taste.

13. Pinch the top two corners and the bottom corner together

14. Then pinch the center point of the top side to the center, and pinch the two openings below tightly.

15. Pinch out the lace and turn up the folds on both sides to form a butterfly shape

16. Finish the butterflies of several other colors in sequence

17. Put it in the steamer, after the water boils, steam for about 10 minutes

18. Does it look like a dancing butterfly

19. Two more flowers and butterflies of different colors

Tips:
Use hot noodles to steam dumplings. Even if they are left to cool, the noodles will be soft, but the dumplings will lose a lot of the color of the pitaya peel. The yellow steamed dumplings in the picture are pitayas. If you use raw pitaya peels Knead the noodles, steamed dumplings can still have some pink color, but after letting cool, the dough will be very hard, so please feel free to use which method;
The filling can also be adjusted at will