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Cute Bunny Red Bean Buns

Name: Cute Bunny Red Bean Buns
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 48 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: chinese
Ingredients: all-purpose flour; white sugar; yeast; Milk; Monascus powder; red bean paste; red beans; water

groups6 servingsspeedMediumcountertopsPrep: 30 minsskilletCook: 18 minsscheduleTotal: 48 minsoutdoor_grillSteamed

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skilletInstruction

5 Steps Total

Active Cooking

00:00:13

Place 300 grams of flour in a glass bowl, add 30 grams of white sugar, 2 grams of yeast, and 110 grams of milk. Stir with chopsticks and a spatula until flaky clumps form, then knead by hand into a smooth dough. Cover with plastic wrap and ferment at room temperature until doubled in size.

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Watch out

Pour the milk gradually to avoid making the dough too wet and sticky to shape.

Ingredients:all-purpose flour (300 g)white sugar (30 g)yeast (2 g)Milk (110 ml)

Tools:spatulaglass bowlchopsticksplastic wrap

Active Cooking

00:01:03

Sprinkle a little flour on the board, take out the fermented dough, knead to release air, roll into an even cylinder, and cut into evenly sized pieces with a knife.

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Watch out

Cut the pieces evenly, otherwise they will cook at different times when steamed.

Ingredients:all-purpose flour

Tools:kitchen knifecutting board

Preparation

00:01:54

Take a small amount of flour, add a little Monascus powder and water to knead into a pink dough. Roll it flat and thin with a rolling pin, then cut into small pieces and shape into rabbit ears for later use.

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Watch out

Add the Monascus powder gradually, otherwise the color will be too dark and won't look like rabbit ears.

Ingredients:all-purpose flourMonascus powder (2 g)

Tools:rolling pinglass bowl

Active Cooking

00:02:32

Roll the white dough pieces into thin wrappers, wrap with 120 grams of homemade red bean paste, pinch to seal tightly, and roll into an oval teardrop shape (one end big, one end small). Snip a tail at the back, cut two ears on top, attach the dampened pink dough onto the ears, shape the face by hand, and decorate with red beans as eyes to complete the cute bunny bun.

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Watch out

The seal must be tightly closed, otherwise the bean paste filling will expand and burst out during steaming.

Ingredients:red bean paste (120 g)waterred beans (12 piece)

Tools:rolling pinkitchen scissors

Active Cooking

00:04:07

warningStay safe

Use heat-insulating gloves when moving the freshly steamed, burning hot bamboo steamer to avoid burns from high-temperature steam and hot water.

Place the shaped rabbit buns into a bamboo steamer lined with steaming cloth. Steam over cold water on high heat for 15 minutes, then braise with heat turned off for 3 minutes before taking them out.

local_fire_departmentHigh heat steam for 15 minutes, braise for 3 minutes

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Watch out

You must braise for 3 minutes before opening the lid after steaming, otherwise the buns will suddenly shrink and collapse upon meeting cold air.

Tools:bamboo steamerpotsteaming cloth