Cantonese Purple Potato Mooncakes
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Details of ingredients
Technique
Steps to make Cantonese Purple Potato Mooncakes
- 1. Prepare the raw materials. If there is no water, you can mix them with edible alkali in a ratio of 1:3 to water.
- 2. Wash and peel the purple potatoes, steam them in a pot, and then use a blender to mash them. Add an appropriate amount of vegetable oil and sugar, stir fry over low heat in a non stick pan to remove excess water, let it cool and set aside.
- Mix 3.75 grams of conversion syrup with 2 grams of water and stir until completely blended.
- 4. Add 25 grams of vegetable oil and stir well.
- 5. Sieve in 100 grams of low gluten flour.
- 6. Knead into a smooth dough.
- 7. Divide the dough into small balls of 15 grams each, and divide the purple potato filling into 35 grams each. (Using a 50g mold)
- 8. Take a pastry crust and press it flat with the palm of your hand. Place the divided filling in the center of the pastry.
- 9. Gently close the mouth, the dough has excellent extensibility, slowly push it, and then use the palm to knead it round.
- 10. Stick a little dry powder.
- 11. Insert the mold and press out the pattern.
- 12. Place it on a baking tray covered with oiled paper, place it in the middle of the preheated oven, bake at 200 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes, then take it out and brush with a layer of egg mixture.
- 13. Continue baking for another 15 minutes.
- 14. Take out the baked mooncakes and let them cool on a rack. At this time, the mooncakes are relatively dry and hard, and the patterns are not obvious. They will be ready the next day after oiling.
- After a day of oiling, the taste of the mooncake becomes soft and delicious.