How to make fish mouth meat buns

Cooking is not difficult if you are determined. Many office workers are busy with work every day and have no time to cook, and their cooking skills are declining. The method of making fish mouth meat buns is extremely simple. You can easily make them when you get home from get off work. Paired with fragrant white rice, it is truly a great delicacy in the world.

1. Knead the dough first: Use a medium-sized rice bowl to take a bowl of flour and put it in the basin.

2. Take a spoonful of yeast from your usual meal spoon and dissolve it in warm water at about 30 degrees (a little water and not much flour)

3. Take the bowl of yeast water in your left hand and pour it into the flour. Use chopsticks in your right hand to stir the flour continuously until it becomes a large piece of cotton wool (if there is not enough water, add some warm water. It is better to have less rather than more because the water in the bowl is full of yeast).

4. Knead the dough evenly (this step requires three things: a clean bowl, clean surface, and clean hands), cover it, and place it in a warm place to ferment.

5. Wait for the dough to ferment to twice its original volume (this step depends on the temperature and the amount of yeast, I fermented it at 15 degrees for more than four hours), dip your finger in dry flour and poke it, and if it does not shrink, the fermentation is complete.

6. While the flour is fermenting, prepare the stuffing for the buns: add ginger, soy sauce, salt and pepper to the meat stuffing and mix well in one direction. Add appropriate amount of clean water to the meat stuffing in batches. After letting it stand for a while, add the washed and chopped chives and mix well in the same direction for later use.

7. Take out the fermented dough and let it vent: sprinkle a thin layer of flour on the chopping board

8. Dip your hands in dry powder and take out the dough and place it on the chopping board

9. Sprinkle a thin layer of flour on the surface and start kneading

10. Knead the dough in a circular motion, sprinkling appropriate amount of dry flour while kneading.

11. Cut it open after a while and you will see that there are larger pores inside.

12. Knead the dough again. The more you knead it, the smoother it becomes. Cut it open and you will see that the pores are obviously smaller and more uniform.

13. After kneading again, the pores basically disappear and separate from the middle.

14. Cut into strips

15. Hold the dough with both hands and roll it into a uniform cylindrical shape. Cut it into pieces and sprinkle a thin layer of dry flour on them.

16. Press the cut surface upwards to flatten it into a circle

17. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough into a thick middle and thin edges.

18. Wrap the stuffing. Hold up the dough with your left hand, use your right hand to take an appropriate amount of meat stuffing and put it in the middle of the dough. Then use your right thumb and index finger to spread the inside and outside of the dough and pinch the folds evenly.

19. Close the mouth (generally the wrapping method is completed here. If you want to make a fish mouth, you have to pinch it again)

20. Gently pinch the upper end of the bun fold to form a fish mouth shape

21. Put an appropriate amount of cold water in the steamer, place the wrapped buns in order on the pre-oiled steamer, cover the pot, and let them rise again for about ten minutes.

22. Open the lid and take a look. You can feel the bun skin starting to swell. Lift one bun gently with your hand and you can feel it bubbling and lightening. Turn on the fire to steam. Bring the pot to a boil over high heat and steam for ten minutes. Turn off the heat and steam for three or four minutes before serving.

23. Take out the buns and turn the bottom upwards to dry the water.

24. Turn it over and let it air dry, so that the buns will not stick to the skin.

25. Set a plate

26. Another plate

The dish of Fish Mouth Meat Buns stimulates people's taste buds and makes people want to eat it a second time after eating it once. In their spare time at home, they can also study other ways to cook this dish.