Autumn and winter is the season to eat pumpkin, pumpkin nutritional value is very high, rich in carotenoids, pectin, polysaccharides, amino acids and a variety of vitamins and minerals? Pumpkin cup is rich in vitamins and amino acids, eat more pumpkin can improve the body's immunity, amino acid intake helps to supplement the body's protein, so eat pumpkin not only to strengthen the body, but also can help the body's development and growth. So eating more pumpkin has many benefits, especially if you have children at home, you should also let your children eat more pumpkin.

The taste of pumpkin is relatively sweet and sticky, so it can be eaten as a dish, but also as a staple food, because pumpkin is too sweet and sticky, into the dish to eat to give people the feeling of not too much rice, and will enhance the sense of satiety. So use pumpkin as a staple food, the acceptance will be a little higher.

With pumpkin as a staple food, you can directly steamed to eat, you can also add some glutinous rice flour or flour, made into a small cake to eat, which will increase the intake of pumpkin. Add glutinous rice made of pumpkin glutinous rice cake, although sweet and sticky, but children eat more, not conducive to digestion. Today we do this pumpkin cake using pumpkin and flour, after fermentation with yeast, the crust is very fluffy, inside the bean paste as filling, soft and sweet, children are very like to eat, taste like eating bread.

How to make pumpkin bean paste cake?

Preparation of ingredients

350 grams of flour, 30 grams of sugar, 4 grams of yeast, 100 grams of bean paste, 250 grams of pumpkin

Operation steps

Step 1: Peel the pumpkin, cut it in half, and then scoop out the flesh of the pumpkin, slice it into thin slices, and put it into a pot to steam for 15 minutes.

Step 2: Steam the pumpkin until it becomes soft, then remove it from the steamer. Because the pumpkin absorbs water after steaming, you need to weigh out 250 grams of cooked pumpkin for the pasta.

Step 3: Use a spoon to crush the cooked pumpkin into a puree, add the yeast and sugar and stir well, add the flour and stir with chopsticks to form a floury dough,

Step 4: Then knead with your hands, knead into a smooth and soft dough, put it into a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let it ferment until it is twice as big as the original size.

Step 5: Take out the dough after fermentation. Sprinkle some dry flour on the panel to prevent sticking, put the dough on the panel, knead it with your hands for a few times, organize it into thin strips, and divide the thin strips into even-sized dosages.

Step 6: Because the dough is very soft, you don't need to knead it smoothly, just roll all the dough into a ball and put it aside for a while to relax. After relaxing, pick up a piece of dough, flatten it with the palm of your hand, and squeeze on the appropriate amount of bean paste filling, then wrap the bean paste around it, and pinch the mouth tightly.

Step 7: Make the dough a little more rounded, and gently flatten it with the palm of your hand, so that the cake embryo of bean paste cake is ready. The size of the cake embryo can be arbitrary, but try to do a little smaller, easier to cook, and children to eat and hold very convenient, because the dough is large amount of water, remember to sprinkle a little dry powder underneath to prevent sticking.

Step 8: pan slightly hot, no oil, directly put the cake embryo in the pan, small fire cooking until the bottom side of the color, if the cake embryo to do larger, in the process of cooking to the best cover the lid smothered for a while, so that cooked more quickly. The whole process must be used with low heat, cooking about 5 minutes, pumpkin cake surface slightly bulging, and then gently turn over, afraid of cooking paste can be turned over a little earlier, to diligently turn over, the other side of the color of the cooking is also darkened, it is almost cooked, the pumpkin cake out of the plate into the cool.

Pumpkin bean paste cake is ready, soft and sweet, nutritious, home with children must try, both as a snack, but also as a staple food, and fragrant and sweet, children are very favorite.

Tips

1, pumpkin steamed water content is very large, so the amount of reference to the amount of cooked pumpkin, due to the amount of pumpkin water and flour absorbent degree is not the same, the amount is for reference only, but also to observe the softness of the dough to increase or decrease the amount of flour as appropriate.

2, with the pumpkin and the dough is very soft, the fermentation degree is good, so the fermentation of the dough without kneading, finishing a little bit of smooth can be directly wrapped in the filling, will not shrink.

3, in the cooking of the cake embryo must ensure that the whole small fire, diligently turn over, so that the surface of the cake will not paste off, if the cake embryo is larger, you can cover the lid of the pot when cooking a smothered for a while.

4, the two sides of the cooking color can be out of the pot, the cake embryo do not do thick, otherwise the inside is not easy to cook.