Pure Natural Beautiful Color Garland-red Yeast Rice and Candied Bread

Name: Pure Natural Beautiful Color Garland-red Yeast Rice and Candied Bread
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 240g High-gluten flour; 60g Low-gluten flour; 6g yeast; 150ml water; 54g granulated sugar; 6g salt; 12g milk powder; 4g Bread improver; 30g Whole egg; 18g Red yeast powder; 30g Softened butter; Some Candied dates; Some Coarse sugar

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Favorite

Difficulty

Hard

Time

2h

Serving

2

Nowadays, no matter what you do, you must pay attention to being natural, environmentally friendly, green, and healthy, especially in your diet. It is best not to use additives, especially pigments. Although they are all edible pigments, they are all chemically synthesized. It is inevitable that there will be some messy ingredients in them, which will definitely be bad for the health. So try to choose some natural ingredients to add color to the food, such as matcha powder, bamboo charcoal powder, purple sweet potato, red yeast rice powder and so on.
This big bread is made with red yeast rice powder, which is very eye-catching. The finished product has no peculiar smell and is no different from ordinary bread.

About the introduction of red yeast rice:
Monascus is a kind of purple Monascus, also known as Monascus, which is a fungus of the Aspergillus family. Natural Monascus is cultured and fermented with Monascus in rice.
1. Modern medical research reports found that the main ingredient in red yeast rice is lovastatin, which can lower total cholesterol (TC), lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), lower triglycerides (TG), and increase High-density lipoprotein (HDL-C) plays a role in lowering blood pressure and blood lipids.
2. Compared with chemically synthesized red pigment, red yeast rice has the advantages of non-toxicity and safety, and also has the effects of invigorating the spleen and eliminating food, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
3. Red yeast rice is purple-red in outer skin, red in the heart, slightly sour and light in taste. It has strong coloring power to protein, so it is often used as food dyeing pigment.

The therapeutic effects of red yeast rice:
Red yeast rice is sweet and warm, enters the liver, spleen, and large intestine meridian; has the effects of promoting blood circulation, invigorating the spleen, warming the stomach and eliminating food; it can be used to treat postpartum lochia, stasis, abdominal pain, food accumulation, fullness, red and white diarrhea, bruises and other symptoms . "Materia Medica Seeking the Original" believes that "everything with seven emotions and six desires caused by qi and blood astringent, should be assisted." "

Pure Natural Beautiful Color Garland-red Yeast Rice and Candied Bread

1. Mix all ingredients A and knead into a smoother dough.

Pure Natural Beautiful Color Garland-red Yeast Rice and Candied Bread recipe

2. Add ingredient B and continue to knead the dough.

3. The expansion stage until the dough can be pulled out of the film.

4. Add crushed candied dates, knead and round, put in a container, cover with plastic wrap, and place in a warm and humid place for basic fermentation.

5. Until the dough is twice as large.

6. The fermented dough is vented, rounded, covered with plastic wrap, and allowed to relax for 15 minutes.

7. After relaxing, press flat and roll out into a rectangle.

8. Then roll it into a cylindrical shape.

9. Close the ends and pinch into a ring shape.

10. Apply a thin layer of oil to the mold.

11. Put the shaped dough into a mold (angel cake mold), cover it with plastic wrap, and place it in a warm and humid place for shaping and fermentation (you can put a cup of boiling water in the microwave, and then put the mold in the microwave for fermentation, cool the water Then change another cup until the dough rises to satisfaction).

12. The dough is fermented to full mold, and the surface is brushed with egg liquid and sprinkled with coarse sugar for baking.

Baking: (Time and temperature are for reference only, please take the temperature of your own oven as the standard)
Preheat the oven 10 minutes in advance, at 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

Tips:
Precautions:

1. Red yeast rice is susceptible to moisture. Once it becomes damp, it will be infested by harmful microorganisms. It will gradually become moldy, agglomerate and cause insects. Therefore, it should be stored in a dry environment when stored.

2. Pay attention when using red yeast rice. Do not use too much, otherwise the taste will be bitter, but you can add some sugar to remove acid and bitterness.

3. The production process of red yeast rice includes the processes of soaking rice, steaming rice, drying rice, inoculating, pushing koji, koji kneading, topping, mixing koji with water, and drying the koji. Generally, it takes about 4 days from rice cultivation to koji production. The red yeast rice grains are all purple-red on the outside, and they are ready to be dried or dried. In the finished red yeast rice, there are still some color bacteria that continue to ferment, eventually making the remaining white hearts in the red yeast rice red. Therefore, there is a folk saying that aged red yeast rice is better than new products.

Suitable for the crowd:

It can be eaten by the general population.

Other practice guidelines for red yeast rice powder:

1. In cooking, red yeast rice is widely used and can be used to dye cooking, such as the production of Jiangsu's famous dish cherry meat and Wuxi pork ribs.

2. It can be used in the production of roast meat and sauce stewed food, such as Cantonese barbecued pork and some brines.

3. It can be used to color enema such as red sausage, and to color when preparing sweet and sour, western juice and other complex flavors.

4. Red yeast rice is often used in the production of porridge and rice, pasta, fermented bean curd, cakes, candies, and preserves.

Folk allusions:

AD 1253 (Yuan Xianzong three years), the Yuan army captured Yunnan and moved the administrative center from Dali to Kunming. Since then, "Kunming" has officially become the political, economic and cultural center of the province. During the reign of the Yuan Dynasty, after the initial military plunder and clan suppression, policies of taxation and improvement of ethnic relations were gradually replaced. Many inland merchants and handicrafts also entered Kunming, forming a new generation of wealthy business class in Kunming. Among these wealthy businessmen, there was a big family named Li, who opened an inn and their signature dish was braised pork. According to legend, Li's braised pork is attractive in color, tastes excellent, and is not greasy. The most amazing thing is that everyone in their family is healthy and slender, and there is no sign of obesity. People who often see their family members eat braised pork also find that their family’s braised pork will not get fat no matter how much they eat. It feels greasy and puzzling.

It was not until many years later that the secret of Li's braised pork was revealed. The color is attractive, fat but not greasy, and often eaten but not fat, because the red pigment of Li's braised pork is red yeast rice.