The most delicious red date steamed buns

Overview

The most delicious steamed buns! The color is red and bright, and the taste is sweet and soft!

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• old man
• breakfast
• steamed bun hanamaki
• shanxi small red dates
• warm water
• yeast
• fine sugar
• plain flour

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Add yeast to the flour and pour fine sugar into a small bowl

   

2. 2 Stir the sugar with warm water and let it sit until it is hot

   

3. 3 Slowly pour the sugar water not higher than 40 degrees into the flour, and stir it into cotton wool with chopsticks

   

4. 4 Remove the chopsticks, knead the flour into a smooth dough, cover with a damp cloth and place in a warm place or oven to ferment

   

5. 5 Ferment until about doubled in size

   

6. 6 Wash Shanxi red dates, drain and set aside

   

7. 7 Add a little dry flour to the fermented dough to fully deflate it, and knead it into its original size

   

8. 8 Roll the dough into thin strips

   

9. 9 Roll a circle around the red dates and pinch tightly

   

10. 10 Do many

    

11. 11 Place in a steamer lined with anti-stick mat and arrange into patterns. Cover the pot and place it on the steamer. Fill the steamer with half a pot of water and let it rise for about 15 minutes. Turn on high heat and continue steaming for fifteen minutes.

    

12. 12 After steaming the steamed buns, turn off the heat and simmer for about 3 minutes, then open the lid.