How to make pumpkin stuffed Cantonese mooncakes

If you are married, you can definitely enjoy the "wife's food" treatment. But what should you do when your wife is not at home? Perhaps many men would choose fast food, instant noodles, etc. But what if you could do it yourself? Wouldn’t this picture be beautiful? I believe your wife would also like to see it. So, let me introduce to you the method of making Cantonese-style mooncakes with pumpkin filling.

1. Make the dough first, pour the syrup [syrup can be made with white sugar] and soap water [soap water is made by adding pure alkali to water] into a bowl, pour in salad oil and stir well.

2. Add flour

3. Mix well and knead into a dough

4. After mixing into dough, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

5. For the filling, peel the pumpkin

6. Cut the pumpkin into pieces and steam it in a steamer

7. Take out the pumpkin after it is steamed.

8. Pour a small amount of cooking oil into the pot, pour the steamed pumpkin into the pot, add sugar, stir-fry over low heat until the water is dry, the drier the better.

9. Fried pumpkin filling

10. Take the prepared mooncake skin out of the refrigerator and divide it into small balls. The same goes for the fillings.

11. Now it’s time to make mooncakes. Homemade fillings are usually softer, but they are really delicious.

12. Push up and rotate the bag

13. Use a mold to press the wrapped mooncakes into flower shapes.

14. Bake in the oven

15. After 10 minutes, brush with egg yolk for the first time, brush again after 15 minutes, and the mooncakes are ready in 20 minutes.

16. The baked mooncakes are out of the oven

Making Cantonese-style mooncakes with pumpkin filling is no problem for our parents’ generation, but for young people who have to worry about food and clothing, can you really make it on your own? Please believe in yourself, with the perfect cooking method, you can definitely do it perfectly.