Cantonese-style Red Bean Paste Mooncakes
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Wash the red beans and soak overnight
2.
Put it in a pressure cooker, add water, it’s okay just after the water is over the beans, then boil it on low heat for 20 minutes
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Pour the cooked red adzuki beans into a pan, stir-fry for a while and add white sugar. If you like delicate, you can also use a blender to break up and stir-fry
4.
Add corn oil while frying, divide it into two or three times, and stir-fry until the bean paste filling becomes a ball. The pan is clean, and the filling will be drier after cooling.
5.
Weigh 150 grams of inverted syrup, add 2 grams of soap and 50 grams of oil and mix well
6.
Sift 220 grams of flour and add it to the mixed syrup
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Mix well with a spatula, mix into a dough, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours
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Weigh 25 grams of dough and knead them into smooth balls
9.
I use a 50-gram mold, and 25 grams of red bean paste to form a dough. I’m a novice, and I use the 1:1 method.
10.
Take a skin and press it flat, wrap it in the bean paste filling, top the skin with your right hand, and press the filling down with the thumb of your left hand.
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Push up while turning in a circle on the right hand, tighten the mouth of the cake with a tiger’s mouth, and round into a ball
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Sprinkle some cooked flour (fried glutinous rice flour) in the mold, and then knock it off, in order to prevent sticking and easy demoulding
13.
In order to put it in the mold easily, you can press the dough slightly into an oval shape
14.
Put the cake mouth down (smooth side facing the patterned side) into the mold, press it with your hand to fill the mold,
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Press down to force out the moon cake
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Pressed and formed moon cakes
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Place the formed mooncakes in a baking tray lined with tin foil. Spray a small amount of water before putting them in the oven to avoid cracking during baking.
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Stir the egg yolk with a few drops of water,
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Preheat the oven on the upper and lower heat for 180, put the middle layer and bake for 5 minutes and then take it out. When it is cool to warm, lightly brush with a thin layer of egg mixture, and continue to bake for 15 minutes
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Baked moon cakes
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Mooncakes that return to oil two days later
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Finished picture
Tips:
The red bean paste will be more delicate after being broken up with a blender. I like a little grainy. According to personal preference, the temperature of the oven is adjusted according to the characteristics of my own home. The fire of my oven is relatively high, so my lower fire is adjusted to 160 The egg liquid must be brushed thinner. I made the soap by myself. The ratio of alkali to water is 4;1.
