Shepherd's Purse and Green Onion Steamed Buns

Shepherd's Purse and Green Onion Steamed Buns

Overview

The most delicious wild vegetable in spring is shepherd's purse. March in spring is a good time to pick shepherd’s purse. Wild shepherd's purse can be seen everywhere in fields, roadsides, and courtyards. Although shepherd's purse is a wild vegetable, it is rich in nutrients. Its protein content is 42.4 grams per kilogram, one of the best among leafy vegetables and melons and fruits; its carotene content is comparable to that of carrots; and its vitamin C content is much higher than that of citrus. And it is also rich in various inorganic salts, so shepherd's purse is becoming more and more popular among people.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Melt the yeast with warm water, add to the flour and stir to form a fluffy consistency.

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  2. Knead into a slightly soft dough and place in a warm place for the first fermentation.

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  3. Prepare accessories: wash and blanch shepherd's purse, pork, ginger and green onions.

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  4. Chop the pork into minced meat, add light soy sauce, pepper and ground ginger and stir evenly.

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  5. Pour in clean water in small amounts several times.

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  6. Add chopped scallions and shepherd's purse.

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  7. Add salt, oyster sauce and peanut oil and stir evenly in one direction.

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  8. The dough is fermented.

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  9. Take out the dough, deflate it, roll it into a long strip, and divide it into appropriate-sized pieces.

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  10. Roll the dough into a round shape.

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  11. Add filling.

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  12. Wrap it into a fish mouth shape, cover it with corn leaves, and put it in a steamer for the second fermentation. Fermentation took about half an hour at a room temperature of around 20 degrees. After the fire comes to a boil, turn to medium heat and steam for 15 minutes.

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  13. Finished product.

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  14. Finished product.

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