Purple sweet potato and pork buns

Method

1. 01

   Step 1

   Steam the purple sweet potatoes until cooked and mash them into a paste.

   

2. 02

   Step 2

   Add a small amount of hot water and stir well.

   

3. 03

   Step 3

   Put the flour in a bowl, add an appropriate amount of dry yeast, knead the dough with purple sweet potato water, put the kneaded dough into the bowl, and cover with plastic wrap.

   

4. 04

   Step 4

   Place in a warm place to ferment for about forty minutes until it doubles in size.

   

5. 05

   Step 5

   If you poke the dough and it doesn't spring back, it's ready.

   

6. 06

   Step 6

   A honeycomb-like structure inside the dough indicates that it has risen very well.

   

7. 07

   Step 7

   While the dough is fermenting, let's prepare the filling for the buns! Mince the pork and scallions, add a suitable amount of salt, and you can add other seasonings according to your preference.

   

8. 08

   Step 8

   Divide the risen dough into small portions and flatten them into dumpling wrappers by hand.

   

9. 09

   Step 9

   Wrap the marinated meat in buns (my buns didn't look very nice, but they'll do as they come).

   

10. 10

    Step 10

    You can also make the dough into other shapes, feel free to be creative! Here I'm going to make a little hedgehog. First, put the meat into the dough, then shape the dough into a teardrop shape.

    

11. 11

    Step 11

    Here I used mung beans for the hedgehog's eyes.

    

12. 12

    Step 12

    The main way to cut a hedgehog's quills is with scissors. You'll have to try it yourself; it's very simple.

    

13. 13

    Step 13

    That's it, all the dough has been wrapped!

    

14. 14

    Step 14

    Steam in a hot pot for about 20 minutes.

    

15. 15

    Step 15

    The beautiful purple sweet potato buns are ready!