Hydrangea Mantou

Hydrangea Mantou

1. Rinse the soybeans with water and soak in water for 1 night

2. Take out the soaked soybeans and put them in the soymilk bucket. At the same time, add the cleaned and pitted red dates and water

3. Turn on the soymilk machine, select the soymilk function, and press the start button

4. The soy milk is made in about 20 minutes. Pour 300g of the red date soy milk into the kneading bowl and let cool

5. Add white sugar, yeast and flour to the red date soy milk and knead it into a smooth dough

6. Divide the dough into 4 small doughs

7. Take one of the small doughs and add matcha powder and knead evenly, then take one of the small doughs and add cocoa powder and knead evenly, and finally take a small dough and add a few drops of red pigment and knead evenly

8. Divide the dough of 4 different colors into small doses of the same size, take 4 doses of the same size and different colors into a group, and knead them into thin strips.

9. Staggered 4 different colors of noodles into a "Tic Tac Toe"

10. As shown in the figure above, press 1, press 2, press 4, and so on, press the singular number and the even number and make a circle in a clockwise direction.

11. Next, start by pressing 2, pressing 7, 8 pressing 5, and so on, making a circle counterclockwise

12. After weaving another circle clockwise, weave one circle counterclockwise, repeat until the noodles are finished, press and pinch the tail.

13. Turn the braided dough over and put it in your palms, and gather the end of the noodles to the bottom of the steamed bun

14. Turn over the braided steamed buns and place them on a silicone mat to make them fuller. Follow the steps above to make the remaining dough. After all the dough is finished, it will be fermented to twice the size at room temperature.

15. Boil water in a pot, put it in a steamer and steam for about 15 minutes after it is boiled

16. Finished picture

Tips:

1. The ratio of red date soy milk to flour is adjusted according to actual conditions
2. The noodles of plastic buns need to be kneaded harder to facilitate the shaping
3. The two weaves that cross each other should be made as close as possible, and no gaps should be left. After the gaps are fermented, they will be easily deformed.
4. When weaving, whether it is clockwise or counterclockwise, the noodles below press the adjacent noodles
5. If you don’t have cocoa powder, matcha powder, or pigment at home, you can make the original color directly, or make two colors
6. Soymilk machine uses Midea DJ12B-DEO1 model machine