Name: Crystal Shrimp Mooncake
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 120g starch; 40g corn starch; 150g shrimp; 5g lard; 160g boiling water; 20g Minced pork; 20g Lotus root; 10ml Cooking Wine; 5ml Soy sauce; 3g salt; 3g Sugar; a little White pepper

Crystal Shrimp Mooncake

1. Prepare the shrimp, remove the tendons, and wash

2. Chop half of the shrimp into puree, cut half of the shrimp into small pieces, and cut the lotus root into small cubes to prepare the minced pork

3. Remove the orange powder, cornstarch, lard, boiling water, and pour all the ingredients mentioned in the filling into a bowl

4. Use chopsticks to stir and mix well, add some water, about 5ml, and continue to stir well

5. Weighing of orange flour and corn starch

6. Pour in boiling hot water, stir with chopsticks while cooling, knead well after cooling until it is not hot, then add lard and knead well

7. Divide the dough into small balls of about 25 grams (I used a 50-gram moon cake mold)

8. Roll the small balls into slices, put them in the stuffing, and close the mouth

9. Extrude the shape with a mold

10. Repeat the operation to make all the moon cakes

11. Put on the steamer, high heat for about 15-20 minutes

12. When the crystal skin becomes transparent, you can see the color of the shrimp inside. The specific time depends on the size and thickness of the mooncake

Tips:
1. Making crystal shrimp mooncakes is similar to making crystal shrimp dumplings. Mushroom technology is not good, and I can’t talk about it. Let’s talk about the experience of failure: mainly to make fillings and dough. The filling is very simple. One part of the shrimp is made into shrimp paste, and the other part is cut into large pieces of diced shrimp. , Mix some minced pork, the pork is best to bring some fat, so it tastes more delicious. Mushrooms are added with some lotus roots in the filling, so that it tastes more crispy and more tasteful. In seasons with water chestnuts, you can add some water chestnuts instead of lotus roots;
2. There are many precautions for making pasta. The ingredients of pasta include orange flour, corn starch and lard. The ratio of orange flour to corn starch is about 3:1. Add some lard in it to make it more fragrant and make the dough more flexible and easier to handle. First prepare the starch, pour it in a bowl, and then prepare hot water with the same proportion as the starch. Note that it must be boiling hot water, pour it into the starch, and stir with chopsticks while pouring it. It will become a snowflake shape and the color will become transparent. Then knead it by hand, add a small spoonful of lard after kneading, continue to knead until the dough is smooth and complete;
3. When rolling the dough, do not blindly pursue the effect of rolling too thin. After wrapping, the embossing is easy to break. I have watched TV before and said that the skin of crystal shrimp dumplings was flattened with a knife at 180 degrees. This seems to happen. It's a little bit difficult, let's roll it with a rolling pin, this technical problem still requires more practice. If you cannot remedy the situation as a last resort, you can apply a patch on the broken place and press it again, but the skin will be uneven, but the leakage can only be remedied.