Homemade Steamed Buns

Sift the flour.
In a mixing bowl combine the flour, sugar, yeast and salt.
Mix well about 1 minute.
Pour olive oil and water.
Mix well.
Now clean your dry working surface and knead by hand about 10 minutes.
Cover the dough and let rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes.
After that, punch the dough down and make 15 round balls.
lemon size
Now take out each ball and roll out with a rolling pin until you get a disk (2 1/2-inch diameter and 1/4 inch thick)
To make the coconut mixture, in a thick-bottomed pan, put coconut pani, cinnamon and sugar and bring to boil (you need it to be around 100C degrees so use a thermometer).Then add the pani mixture to the dessicated coconut and mix well.
Let cool.
Now place the sweet coconut mixture in the middle of each disk.
1 tea spoon.Roll in to a ball.
Next shape the dough into a oval shape.
Using a sharp scissors snip top of the dough to form prickles to shape as a porcupine.
Now put the porcupine on top of the oil paper.
Place porcupines buns in a steamer and steam over a pan of boiling water for about 10 minutes.
When the porcupines buns are cooked, remove from the steamer and place on a dish.
After that, you can decorate the porcupines buns with eye, mouth and whiskers.
I have done in the photo above .
Eyes and mouth - food coloring -coir is used in whiskers.
coir-husk of the coconut
serve warm.
Enjoy.
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