How to make mooncakes without additives

Some people may think that cooking at home is too complicated. In fact, it is not impossible to have a delicious and nutritious dinner at home as long as you master some simple recipes. It is easy to make mooncakes without additives. Even if you don’t have a talent for cooking, you can still let your family eat delicious dishes.

1. Boil sugar water into syrup: This step requires boiling sugar into syrup color, and it needs to be boiled for a long time, which is quite complicated. You can first fry some of the white sugar into sugar color, add half a bowl of water and put the remaining white sugar in and boil over high heat. This way the syrup will be more condensed and the syrup will form a straight line when you pour it with a spoon. Pour the syrup and let it cool.

2. Prepare the filling: Soak the red beans overnight, stew them in a pot until they melt, and blend them in a blender (if you don’t have a blender, you can use a spoon to mash them). Add some oil to the wok (you can also leave it out, depending on your personal taste), put the red bean filling in and stir-fry until most of the water is dried up and becomes a paste. (If you have time, you can also bake it in the oven until it becomes puree)

3. Make the dough: Add oil to the syrup (ratio 3:1) and beat with your hands until the oil is dissolved in the syrup. Add flour (the flour used for making bread will do), and mash into a paste. It should not be too dry, otherwise it will be difficult to wrap the filling.

4. Divide the filling: There is no scale: You can divide it roughly according to the mooncake mold (as long as the filling and skin can fit into the mold). The ratio of filling to dough is 7:3.

5. Wrap mooncakes: Spread out the dough and use your palm to slowly wrap the filling and shape it into a round shape. Each dough ball should be roughly the same size so that the baking time can be controlled well.

6. Moulding: Sprinkle some dry flour in the mould, put the dough ball in, press it and remove it from the mould.

7. Make mooncakes with good molds.

8. Bake the mooncakes: Arrange the mooncakes in the mold, sprinkle some water, bake at 180 degrees for 8 minutes (I made 50 grams, so the baking time was shorter), take them out, brush with oil and bake for 3 minutes, take them out, brush with oil, wait to cool, and brush egg liquid on the patterns. Repeat the operation 2 times. (Brush with egg wash 3 times to make it look beautiful.)

Have you learned the tips for making mooncakes without additives? In fact, the method is not fixed. You can add other fresh ingredients according to your own creativity to make the taste more delicious.