How to make the filling for the bean buns

Cowpea buns are buns made with cowpea as the filling. This kind of bun tastes great and is high in nutrients. It has many benefits for the human body, such as clearing away heat and fire, tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang, promoting gastrointestinal motility, and regulating constipation, etc. Therefore, it is a very popular food. Here is a detailed introduction to the method and efficacy of cowpea bun filling.

Cowpea meat buns

Material

Dumpling flour, eggs, yeast, water, salt, sugar, cowpea, minced meat, onion, ginger, cooking wine, soy sauce

practice

1. Ingredients for bun wrappers: dumpling flour, eggs, yeast, water, salt, sugar. Dissolve the yeast in warm water (hand temperature is fine), let it sit for 3 minutes to activate the yeast, and pour it into the dumpling flour with eggs, salt, and sugar.

2. Use chopsticks to stir until it becomes fluffy

3. Knead with your hands until the "three lights" (basin light, surface light, hand light)

4. Expand the dough

5. Add odorless oil. It is recommended to use olive oil or sunflower oil instead of peanut oil or sesame oil.

6. Knead again until smooth

7. Place in a warm place to ferment (to check if the fermentation is OK, dip your finger in flour or water and insert it into the dough. If the finger hole does not shrink, it is OK)

8. Ingredients for bun filling: cowpea, minced meat, onion, ginger, cooking wine, soy sauce, salt, sugar, eggs. Bun filling production: put all the ingredients together

9. Stir vigorously in one direction

10. Divide the fermented dough into small pieces and roll them into thin sheets with thick center. Wrap the fillings.

11. Wrap it into a bun

12. Wrap everything and let it rest for 20 minutes, steam it on high heat for 12 minutes, turn off the heat and steam it for 2 minutes before eating.

Tips

1. Dissolve the yeast in warm water and let it sit for 3 minutes to activate the yeast. 2. The egg in the flour can increase the toughness and softness of the dough. Adding sugar can make the fermented dough softer. 3. Knead with your hands until "three lights" (glossy bowl, shiny dough, shiny hands). 4. Unfold the dough and add odorless oil. It is recommended to use olive oil or sunflower oil, not peanut oil or sesame oil. 5. To determine whether the fermentation is OK, dip your finger in flour or water and insert it into the dough. It is OK as long as the finger hole does not shrink. 6. After wrapping, let it stand for 20 minutes to rise, steam on high heat for 12 minutes, turn off the heat and steam for 2 minutes so that the steamed buns will not shrink.

The efficacy of cowpea

Cowpea is mainly produced in Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Guangxi, Hebei, Hubei, Sichuan and other places in my country. It is divided into two types: long cowpea and rice cowpea, and belongs to the legume family. Cowpea has the effects of regulating the middle and replenishing qi, strengthening the stomach and kidneys, harmonizing the five internal organs, regulating the complexion and nourishing the body, producing essence, stopping thirst, vomiting, diarrhea, and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat spleen and stomach weakness, poor appetite and loose stools, spleen deficiency and leucorrhea in women, damp-heat and turbid urine, difficulty urinating, vomiting, dysentery and other symptoms.

1. Nourishes the kidneys

Nourishing the kidneys is an important function of cowpea, and it has auxiliary therapeutic effects on frequent urination, spermatorrhea and some gynecological functional diseases. Doctors of all dynasties have regarded cowpea as a wonderful medicine for treating nocturnal emissions and spermatorrhea caused by kidney deficiency.

2. Helps digestion

Cowpea can strengthen the spleen and harmonize the stomach. When you have indigestion, bloating or hiccups, take an appropriate amount of cowpea, chew it carefully and swallow it. It has a good relieving effect.

3. Relieve Constipation

Chewing cowpeas with their pods allows the human body to absorb rich amounts of dietary fiber, promotes gastrointestinal motility, thereby aiding digestion, and makes it easier for the large intestine to excrete, thus having a laxative function. Therefore, eating cowpeas regularly can improve constipation.