Huaxiang Mantou

Huaxiang Mantou

by Fondant MM-White Cat

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Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

2h

Serving

4

The Chinese New Year’s steamed buns are a continuation of the Chinese New Year’s tradition. I remember that when I was young, my family would make small hedgehog bunny buns for children to play~ I also made some of them by myself. Bunny, lamb and flowers~

Ingredients

Huaxiang Mantou

1. Ingredients: (about 9-10 buns of various styles)
500 grams of Fuqiang powder, 250 grams of water, 5 grams of yeast, 10 grams of white sugar; some red dates, some red beans, and some black beans. Measure all the ingredients and put the yeast in a small amount of warm water;
Mix all the ingredients and knead until a smooth dough is formed. Cover the dough with a damp cloth and leave it in a warm and humid place to ferment for one to two hours. Put a bowl of hot water in the oven and put the dough in the oven to ferment. ;
Knead the fermented dough until smooth

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

2. The production of small hedgehog steamed buns: weigh 50 grams of dough and knead the dough to a pointy fat drop shape

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

3. Use small scissors to cut off the sharp corners from 1/4 of the tip. Cut four sharp corners on the first layer, stagger the sharp corners of the second layer and the first layer, and so on

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

4. The hedgehog’s body needs to be cut with sharp corners, and two red beans are placed on the hedgehog’s eyes. The small hedgehog shape is ready.

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

5. Bunny shape: weigh 50 grams of dough, knead the dough to a pointy fat drop shape

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

6. Use larger scissors to cut out the long ears of the rabbit at 1/4 of the tip of the dough

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

7. Cut out the ears on the other side as well, and lift the two ears up for shaping.

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

8. Match two red beans in the bunny eyes, the bunny shape is ready

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

9. Lamb shape: weigh 50 grams of dough, knead the dough to a pointy fat drop shape

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

10. Pinch two small ears symmetrically at the round end of the dough

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

11. Shape the left and right to make the ears symmetrical in size on both sides

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

12. Use small scissors to cut the ears from the bottom

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

13. Reshape the ears and pull the ears to the outside to form two small symmetrical upturned ears

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

14. To make the mouth, use scissors to cut the tip of the dough

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

15. Open your mouth and use a red bean as a support

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

16. Match two red beans as horns between the two ears, and use a tool to poke the texture of the small pit to decorate the lamb. Toothpicks can be used in this step

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

17. Put black beans on the eye, and the lamb is ready

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

18. Have you learned the simple styling before? Now let’s make a little more complicated little dragon. The method of the little dragon: weigh 130 grams of dough, knead it into a strip, round the head, and make the tail thinner, and turn the noodles into an S shape.

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

19. Use small scissors to cut out two larger horns at the faucet, and cut another cut in the middle of the horns

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

20. Use scissors to cut out four small corners around the corners. At the same time, cut the mouth with scissors and match the red beans as a support

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

21. Two little red beans on the eye

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

22. Use scissors to cut out small sharp corners from the head, and continue to the tail. Each row of sharp corners should be staggered and cut in the middle of the tail to become the tail.

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

23. Take a small piece of dough and knead it into a long strip, cut three knives in one section, and make the claws of the dragon

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

24. Make a total of two claws and stick them on both sides of the dragon. The shape of the dragon is complete, and two dragons can be made. The other small dragon plates are in opposite directions when they are S-shaped.

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

25. How to make flower buns: weigh 15 grams of dough, weigh 6 in total

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

26. Knead each dough into a thin strip, connect the head and tail to form a petal shape

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

27. 6 petals are connected, the central part is pinched firmly

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

28. A red date is placed in the middle of each petal, and the flower shape is completed

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

29. Put the kneaded fancy steamed buns in a warm and humid place, and ferment for another hour, then put on the steamer, put cold water into the pot, turn to low heat and continue steaming after the high heat water is boiled, and steam for 20 minutes.

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

30. The fancy steamed buns are ready, let's learn together and add some color to the Spring Festival!

Huaxiang Mantou recipe

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