Steamed Dumplings with Colorful Ingots
1.
Put the flour into the basin, gradually add a small amount of boiling water, do not add it all at once, according to the water absorption rate of the flour, use chopsticks to stir into a dough, into a dry powder, not too soft, but moderately hard
2.
Let it cool for a while, put it on the table, if it’s too sticky, add some flour, knead it smoothly, pour 8 grams of oil, and continue kneading
3.
After kneading into a smooth and moisturized dough, put it in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and use it after 30 minutes
4.
Four kinds of dough are ready, from the top left to the bottom right in turn, the original color hot dough, carrot hot dough, dragon fruit peel hot dough, spinach hot dough, please see my corresponding recipe for specific methods
5.
When making 饧面, you can adjust the filling, and the filling can be changed at will
6.
Take an appropriate amount of dough, knead it into a cylindrical shape, then cut into small pieces of the same size, and roll it into a round skin
7.
Take a round crust and put stuffing in the middle
8.
Fold it up and down, squeeze the middle first
9.
Gradually squeeze the two sides, without creases
10.
The two outer corners are overlapped to make the dumplings shaped like ingots, and the two corners are squeezed tightly.
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Dumplings of other colors are also wrapped in order
12.
Put it in the steamer, steam for about 15 minutes after the water is boiled, turn off the heat and simmer for one minute before uncovering
13.
Set it out, start eating, walk away!
Tips:
For the recipe of carrot hot noodles, please see the link http://home.meishichina.com/recipe-202736.html;
For the recipe of hot spinach noodles, please see the link http://home.meishichina.com/recipe-202753.html
For the recipe of hot dragon fruit peel noodles, please see the link http://home.meishichina.com/recipe-202748.html; the color of the hot dragon fruit peel noodles is still pink after being boiled into noodles, and the color after steaming is lost. You can take purple amaranth or Other natural foods extract color and knead dough. In a later article, I will introduce the purple dough made with mulberry and strawberry jam.
