Red Date Mantou

Name: Red Date Mantou
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 600g Flour; 2g yeast; Some Red dates

by Gluttonous

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Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

2h

Serving

2

To welcome the Chinese New Year and celebrate the New Year, make a lucky steamed bun. Every year before the twelfth lunar month, there is a custom of "twenty-eight noodles", so we also make pot noodles and steamed buns. I hope that the new year will begin immediately and be prosperous.
"Twenty-eight noodles" is one of the customs of the New Year. It just so happens that "red jujube steamed buns" are steamed with noodles.
Interpretation 1: "Red dates" means prosperity! Festive!
Interpretation 2: "famian" means Fafa! Send it right away!
Interpretation 3: "steamed buns" means flourishing! auspicious! "

Ingredients

600g Flour
2g Yeast
Some Red Dates

Red Date Mantou

1. Main and auxiliary materials: flour, red dates.

2. The flour is mixed with warm water and yeast powder to form a smooth dough.

3. Cover with plastic wrap and ferment in a warm place to more than 2 times the size.

4. Knead the fermented dough to exhaust air.

5. Down into a uniform dose.

6. Take a potion, stretch it, and press it flat.

7. Put a red date.

8. Roll it into a raw steamed bun

9. After doing everything in turn, cover the damp cloth for a second haircut for 20 minutes.

10. Put the prepared raw material into the steamer.

11. Gradually heat up and steam for 15 minutes after SAIC.

12. After turning off the heat, let it stand for 3 minutes. You can uncover the lid.

13. Put it out of the pot and serve it on a plate.

Tips:
1. Mixing noodles with warm water in winter can shorten the time for making noodles.
2. In winter, the amount of yeast powder can be slightly more.