【Hebei】Cute “Chicken” Celebrates Spring (Little Chicken Red Bean Bun)

Taste: Other; Cooking Method: Steaming; Time: Half an hour; Difficulty: Ordinary.

Detailed Steps for Cooking Cute “Chicken” Celebrates Spring (Little Chicken Red Bean Bun)

Cut the pumpkin into slices and put it in the microwave oven for 8 minutes on high heat. Take it out and mash it with a spoon into a paste.

Add 250g of flour, 3g of yeast, and an appropriate amount of warm water to the pumpkin paste to form a dough (not too soft to avoid difficulty in shaping).

Cover and let it ferment until it is 1.5 times larger.

Add 250g of flour, 3g of yeast, and water to form a dough. Cover and let it ferment until it is 1.5 times larger (not too soft to avoid difficulty in shaping).

Take out the fermented dough and knead it evenly. Take 50g of dough, add red yeast rice powder and knead it evenly for later use.

Knead the pumpkin dough and the white dough into strips separately.

Cut the white dough into uniform pieces (about 45g each).

Roll them into round pieces with thin edges and thick centers.

Wrap an appropriate amount of red bean paste inside.

Slowly seal the edges with your fingers and then roll them into oval shapes with the sealed edges facing down.

Take 3-4g of pumpkin dough and roll it into a thin strip. Pinch 1-2g of pumpkin dough into a cone shape. Roll 1g of red dough into a water droplet shape.

Shape the larger pumpkin dough into a flatter shape with your hands, wet it, and place it on top.

Wet the cone-shaped and red dough and place them in front of the larger pumpkin dough.

Use scissors to cut four times on the chicken’s comb.

Make a horizontal cut at the chicken’s mouth.

Finally, use a fork to press some patterns on the chicken’s body, and use black sesame seeds to make eyes on both sides.

You can also combine them like this, or combine them as you like.

Put them on a steaming cloth and let them ferment until they are 1.5 times larger. Turn on the heat, steam over medium heat until the water boils, and then turn off the heat after 15 minutes. Do not open the lid for 2-3 minutes before removing them.

So cute!