Flour is one of the indispensable ingredients in our life. Steamed bread, Baozi, jiaozi In China, which is a large country, there are so many delicious foods that can be made with flour. Looking at it, the amount of flour used in the world in a year is even more amazing. Except for some countries and regions in Asia that use rice as the staple food, most western countries use flour as the staple food. So today we're going to use medium gluten flour and pumpkin to make a delicious one. The finished product is crispy and soft inside. It's sweet and delicious. It can be eaten for a long time. It's more fragrant than bread. Let's see how to make it.
Step1:Wash the surface of the pumpkin. Cut it in half with a knife. Peel off the pumpkin skin. Dig out the pumpkin seeds with a spoon.
Step2:Slice the pumpkin and put it in a large bowl. Heat the water in the steamer until it boils. Put the bowl on top of the steamer. Cover the steamer and steam for about 15 minutes. When the pumpkin can be easily mashed, it will be steamed.
Step3:When the pumpkin is cool, use a rolling pin to mash it into pumpkin puree. Put two tablespoons of sugar and a little salt. 5g yeast in the pumpkin puree. Stir with chopsticks until the yeast dissolves.
Step4:Add 400g flour to pumpkin puree. First stir it with chopsticks to form floccules. Then press it with your hands to form a smooth dough. Cover with wet cloth and let it ferment in the sun for about 2 hours. Or put it in the refrigerator and refrigerate for a night.
Step5:When the dough is fermented to twice the size. There are honeycombs in the dough. When it is pulled up, it will be ready to be brushed. Put the dough on the chopping board. Knead for about 5 minutes. After exhausting the gas generated during fermentation, knead it into a long strip. Cut into 10 to 12 parts.
Step6:Knead each serving into a small ball. Press it into a small cake by hand. Cover it with plastic wrap and ferment twice.
Step7:It's twice as big again. At this time, there are more than ten chubby cakes on the chopping board. Let's take a pan. Heat the pan over low heat without oil. Put the cake in the pan. When it's golden at the bottom, turn it over. When it's golden on both sides, you can get out of the pan.
Cooking tips:1. Because the pumpkin will come out of the water in the process of steaming. Therefore, no water is needed when mixing the flour. Because the water absorption degree of the flour is different. The 400g flour in the formula is only a reference quantity. Knead until the dough is smooth, soft and non sticky. 2. When pancakes are baked, since there is no oil in the pan, the whole process should be operated with a small fire, and the pan should be turned over frequently, so as not to paste the pan. 3. The second fermentation embryo can be frozen in the refrigerator. If you want to eat it, you can take it out and defrost it and then burn it. So we can make more at a time. When we want to eat, we can take it out and brand it. There are skills in making delicious dishes.