Homemade Steamed Sweet Buns

  1. For the buns: Sift the flour.
  2. In a mixing bowl combine the flour, sugar, yeast and salt.
  3. Mix well about 1 minute.
  4. Pour in olive oil and water.
  5. Mix well.
  6. Now clean your dry working surface and knead by hand about 10 minutes.
  7. Cover the dough and let rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes.
  8. After that, punch the dough down and make 15 round lemon-sized balls.
  9. Now take each ball and roll out with a rolling pin until you get a disk (3-inch diameter and 1/4 inch thick).
  10. To make the coconut filling, in a thick-bottomed pan, put coconut pani, cinnamon and sugar and bring to a boil (you need it to be around 100 degrees C degrees so use a thermometer).
  11. Then add the pani mixture to the desiccated coconut and mix well.
  12. Let cool.
  13. Now place about 1 tablespoon of sweet coconut mixture in the middle of each disk.
  14. Next shape the dough into a ball shape.
  15. Set aside about five minutes.
  16. Using sharp scissors, snip the round edges of the dough off to form petals to shape it like a flower (see photo).
  17. Now put the flower on top of oiled parchment paper or baking paper.
  18. Place flower buns in a steamer and steam over a pan of boiling water for about 10 minutes.
  19. When the flower buns are cooked, remove from the steamer and place on a dish.
  20. After that, you can decorate the flower buns.
  21. Just place chocolate candy in the center of flower buns.
  22. Ive done this in the photo above.
  23. Serve warm.
  24. Enjoy.

bread flour, sugar, yeast, salt, water, olive oil, molasses coconut, cinnamon powder, sugar, coconut, chocolate

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/homemade-steamed-sweet-buns-51948 (may not work)

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