Golden Pumpkin Wotou——the Golden Cornucopia of Happy New Year
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The pumpkin is sliced and steamed, aired until it is warmed to about 37 degrees, then add an appropriate amount of yeast and mix well, the amount is about 1% of the flour.
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Add a little salt and a small amount of sugar to the flour. Add the pumpkin puree and stir it into a flocculent shape. The pumpkin puree should be added in portions to avoid being too wet and sticky.
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Make it into a smooth dough. Knead the dough as much as possible to make the finished product smooth.
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Cover with plastic wrap and send it to 2-2.5 times the size in a warm place. Press a hole without shrinking or collapsing.
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Divide the dough into several doses, one larger and the other smaller, with the same number of small and large doses.
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Knead each potion into a circle separately.
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First take a small agent and make it into a cylindrical shape.
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Then take a large potion and dip your thumb in oil to make a socket shape. The inner shape should also be cylindrical. Put a layer of cooking oil in the middle of the socket shape agent (you can also apply a layer of oil on the outside of the small potion) .
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Put the small cylindrical agent into the head of the socket and tidy it up so that the whole is cylindrical. (Because the dough will collapse a little when reheating and steaming, so that it will just turn into a semicircle instead of being too flat.)
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Place them one by one, bottom down, and cover with a layer of plastic wrap or damp cloth for the second fermentation.
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It can be steamed in the pot until it becomes bigger and lighter.
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In a pot with cold water, steam for about 10 minutes after the water is boiled (depending on the size of the dough). Turn off the heat and simmer for 3 or 4 minutes before removing the lid. Do not open the lid halfway through.
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After opening the lid, just take out the small doses in the middle, one by one, the soft and hollow nests will be made, and the small doses in the middle are a small steamed bun.
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Let’s make the stuffing below. Pork, lotus root, carrots are all cut into small pieces, and green beans are cooked.
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Put oil in the pot, add pork diced and stir fry when the oil is hot.
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After sautéing changes color, add a little light soy sauce, a little bean paste and a little cooking wine, stir well, add the green beans.
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Stir-fry for a while and then add carrots.
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Finally, add diced lotus root and stir fry, add appropriate amount of sugar and salt to taste.
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Use a spoon to put the prepared stuffing into the wotou and you can eat it. The filling can be adjusted and changed according to your own preferences.
