Steamed dumplings with plum blossom(mei hua zheng jiao )

Steamed dumplings with plum blossom

Introduction:

"Steamed dumplings are one of the indispensable traditional foods for Chinese festivals every year. The dumplings are made into plum shape to keep the flavor of dumplings and add aesthetic feeling to the new year or festival. My daughter doesn't like boiled dumplings, but she especially likes steamed dumplings. Today, I made this plum blossom steamed dumpling. My daughter likes pumpkin stuffing. It's a little sweet, just pumpkin stuffing. Eating dumplings is a great enjoyment in spirit and taste. The difference between steamed dumplings and dumplings is that steamed dumplings use hot noodles and dumplings use cold water and noodles. One is steamed and the other is boiled. Raw material flour 400g, Chengfen 100g, pumpkin right amount of purple potato right amount of meat onion one soy sauce peanut oil salt sugar ginger sesame oil

Production steps:

Step 1: chop the meat into mud, add appropriate amount of water, stir along, shred the pumpkin, add the pork mud, add soy sauce, salt, onion and sesame oil, mix well and marinate for 30 minutes,

Step 2: steam pumpkin and purple potato, press them into mud, blanch them in boiling water, blanch half of the flour, add pumpkin mud or purple potato and blanched flour respectively, and form yellow dough and purple dough, wake up for 20 minutes

Step 3: rub the dough into long strips, cut it into small pieces of the same size, press it flat with the palm of your hand, and roll it into a round dough

Step 4: after rolling out the skin, stick more dry flour on the back, spread it upward and fold up 5 sides

Step 5: turn over the folded dough and add the filling,

Step 6: fold the 5 corners in the middle, knead them, and then apply some water

Step 7: turn up the five sides that started to fold

Step 8: pinch each petal slightly with your thumb

Step 9: take a little purple dough as a flower core

Step 10: yellow is the same

Step 11: do it one by one

Step 12: put corn leaves on the mat and steam in the pot. Steam in water for about 10-15 minutes

Step 13: steamed plum dumplings

Step 14: steamed plum dumplings

Step 15: steamed plum dumplings

Step 16: steamed plum dumplings

Materials required:

Flour: 400g

Chengfen: 100g

Pumpkin: right amount

Purple potato: right amount

Meat: moderate

Soy sauce: right amount

Salt: right amount

Scallion: right amount

Ginger: right amount

Peanut oil: right amount

Sugar: right amount

Sesame oil: appropriate amount

Note: pumpkin and purple potato do not add too much, or color is too deep, add Chengfen is to have a little transparent feeling, can not add, dough is a semi hot noodles, so it tastes soft.

Production difficulty: ordinary

Process: steaming

Production time: one hour

Taste: salty and fresh

Chinese PinYin : Mei Hua Zheng Jiao