Farmhouse Arrowhead Buns
A sweet, nutritious steamed wheat bun with a lifelike arrowhead shape, filled with sesame sugar filling.
Ingredients
Wheat starch
200 g
Glutinous rice flour
50 g
Sugar
30 g
Lard
10 g
Boiling water
150 g
Black sesame filling (toast black sesame, grind into powder, mix with sugar and leaf lard until combined)
150 g
Cocoa powder
a pinch
Instructions
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Step 1
Combine the wheat starch, glutinous rice flour, sugar, and lard in a bowl and mix well. Pour in the boiling water to scald the mixture, then knead into a smooth dough. Take a small piece of dough, add the cocoa powder, and knead until it becomes a brown dough.
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Step 2
Roll the white dough into a long rope, divide it into small portions, and wrap each piece around a small amount of the brown dough.
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Step 3
Wrap a portion of the black sesame filling inside, seal the opening, and roll into a smooth ball.
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Step 4
Shape each ball into a peach form, narrower at the top and wider at the bottom.
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Step 5
Dilute a little cocoa powder with a small amount of water, dip the teeth of a wooden comb into the mixture, and draw vertical lines onto the raw buns from the bottom upward to create the finished shapes.
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Step 6
Place the prepared buns into a steamer and steam over high heat for 4 minutes.
