Flowering buns

Of course the main ingredient of the flowered steamed bun is flour, but the top of the bun looks like the top of a peach, which makes it look more appetizing. Generally, people like to eat big white steamed buns, but with the improvement of living standards, people have become more and more particular about what they eat. Flowering steamed buns are colorful, fragrant and delicious, and even their names are very elegant. Below I will introduce to you the detailed process of making flower steamed buns.

Flowering steamed bun, also known as silver ruyi. It is white, soft, sweet and delicious, with four petals on the top, and the petals are pink in color, which is natural and pretty. It has become a famous traditional pasta delicacy in Jinan. The production process is quite strict. After the dough is kneaded, it needs to go through two fermentations, then add alkaline water and knead it evenly and thoroughly. It needs to be steamed over high heat for 20 minutes. The flower-shaped steamed buns are very popular because of their excellent color, fragrance, taste, shape and strong traditional flavor.

Origin of the name

The name of the flowering steamed bun comes from its appearance. Because the finished product looks like a flower bud, and it belongs to the category of steamed buns, it is called flowering steamed bun.

practice

Method 1

Raw materials

【Main ingredients】

500 grams of fine flour.

【Accessories】

150 grams of white sugar, 10 grams of baking powder, a little green and red silk, and an appropriate amount of yeast.

Process

First pour 350 grams of flour into a basin, add yeast, and mix with 170 grams of water (water temperature: hot in winter, cool in summer, warm in spring and autumn). Put it in a warm place to ferment for 12 hours to become old leavened dough. Then add the alkali and white sugar and knead it until smooth and evenly mixed. The remaining 150 grams of flour is used as a dough, mixed into the dough, and then the baking powder is kneaded into the dough. It must be kneaded evenly, and then placed on the chopping board for 20 minutes, rolled into long strips, pinched into dough pieces, and placed them with the ends facing up on a dry cage cloth. Sprinkle a little green and red silk powder on the top of the bun, and steam it in a steamer over high heat for about 15 minutes.

Method 2

Raw materials:

Ingredients: Flour

Accessories: spinach juice, carrot puree

Seasoning: sugar, alkali flour

Preparation method:

1. Take out the fermented dough, add sugar and alkaline flour (2.5 alkaline flour for one pound of flour) and knead evenly. Divide the kneaded dough into three pieces, take two pieces and add spinach juice and carrot puree to knead into green and red dough respectively;

2. Knead the three pieces of dough into long strips, stack them up and knead them into a single strip. Pinch them into small pieces and steam them over high heat for 20 minutes after the steamer starts to come on.

Dishes

It is white in color, shaped like blooming cotton, soft and sweet. Sweet and soft.

Precautions

To make flower steamed buns, you can also add a little red or yellow food element to part of the dough, dye it into dough, and wrap or stack it with white dough, and make flower steamed buns of various colors, which are more vivid and beautiful.