Zaohua Steamed Bun

Overview

How to cook Zaohua Steamed Bun at home

Tags

• staple food
• pasta
• home cooking
• seedless red dates
• yeast
• fine sugar
• milk
• plain flour

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare flour and yeast in a large bowl, melt milk and caster sugar.

   

2. 2 Stir the flour and yeast

   

3. 3 Slowly pour the milk into the flour, stirring as you go

   

4. 4 Stir into cotton wool without too much dry flour.

   

5. 5 Remove the chopsticks and knead the dough with your hands into a smooth dough.

   

6. 6 Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size.

   

7. 7 Take out the dough, add a little dry flour and knead to deflate.

   

8. 8 Prepare red dates and soak them in warm water for a while

   

9. 9 Take a piece of dough and roll it into a long strip

   

10. 10 Roll up the red dates and pick them up with chopsticks

    

11. 11 Or wrap red dates in long strips

    

12. 12 Arrange patterns in the steamer

    

13. 13 Place the steamer basket into the steamer, cover it, let it rise at room temperature for about 10 minutes, then turn on high heat and bring to a boil, then continue steaming for 12 minutes.

    

14. 14 Don’t open the steamed buns in a hurry and simmer for 3 minutes