Purple Sweet Potato Butterfly Rolls

Taste: Light; Cooking method: Steaming; Time-consuming: Several hours; Difficulty: Ordinary.

Detailed Steps for Cooking Purple Sweet Potato Butterfly Rolls

Peel the purple sweet potato, cut it into thick slices, steam it in a dish, take it out, and mash it into a paste with the back of a spoon for later use.

Dissolve 6g of yeast in warm water not exceeding 35 degrees Celsius and let it stand for 5 minutes.

Put the ingredients for the ordinary dough (150g flour, about 75g warm water, and 3g yeast) in one bowl and knead it into a smooth white dough. Cover it with a semi-wet kitchen cloth and let it ferment in a warm place.

Put the ingredients for the purple sweet potato dough (100g flour, 50g purple sweet potato, 3g yeast, and about 30-50g warm water) in another bowl and knead it into a smooth purple dough. Cover it with a semi-wet kitchen cloth and let it ferment in a warm place.

Let it ferment for 2-3 hours until the dough doubles in size.

The inside should have a uniform honeycomb structure, indicating that it has fermented well.

Knead the fermented dough repeatedly until there are almost no bubbles inside when cut with a knife.

Roll out both types of dough into thin and equal-sized pieces.

Stack the two pieces of dough together and roll them gently to make the two pieces of dough completely adhere to each other.

Roll the two pieces of dough from both sides towards the center, leaving a small gap at the end.

Then cut them into equal pieces.

Place two cut pieces back to back, with their backs touching.

Then use chopsticks to clamp the lower part to form a butterfly shape. Use your hands to tidy up the butterfly’s antennae to form the butterfly roll.

Put cold water in a pot, spread a layer of cooking oil on a bamboo steamer, and then place the butterfly rolls in the steamer. Do not place them too close together, or they will stick together. Cover the pot and let them ferment for 15 minutes. Then, turn up the heat and steam them for 10 minutes and let them sit for 5 minutes.

Finished product.

Finished product.