pumpkin & oats steamed buns / mantou 南瓜燕麦馒头

Healthy buns for breakfast, with pumpkin and oats. Very bright yellow orangey colour of steamed buns and this will brighten my day in the morning! The texture was a mild sweet and full of pumpkin flavor.


ingredients: (make 8 mantous)

200g pumpkin mash
30g quick cooking oats
70g fine sugar
300g all purpose flour
1-1/2 tsp instant yeast
1 tbsp oil/shortening

1. add all ingredients except shortening and start kneading by hand to form a smooth dough about 10-15 minutes
2. add in shortening, rub into the dough, knead again to become smooth dough about 5-10 minutes
3. rest & let ferment in a bowl with lid covered for 20-30 minutes
4. remove rested dough from the bowl, flatten the dough on a working surface, roll the dough with a wooden rolling pin to become a rectangle shape & about 5mm thickness
5. brush some water on the flatten surface to act as glue, start roll to become long log
6. cut into 8 portion with a shape knife, place on a piece paper & put direct into the steamer rack
7. rest for another 20-30 minutes, it will become half size bigger 
8. fill the steamer pan with 1-2 litre of water, steam from cool water at high heat until boil then turn to medium heat for 20 minutes
9. turn off heat after 20 minutes, do not open lid & cover for another 2 minutes, then open lid and take out the steam buns, place on a wired rack to cool