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| Quick and Easy Dough for Chinese Pastry (如何做发面) |
A super quick and easy way to make dough for Chinese bakery, using only flour, dry yeast and water. It can be done within 10 minutes.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of warm water
- 1 table spoon dry yeast
- 3 cups of general purpose flour
Yields:
12 3-inch wide dough
Cooking Steps
1. In a large mixing bowl, add 1 cup of warm water, add 1 table spoon dry yeast, stir evenly and let it sit for a few minutes.
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| Add 1 tablespoon dry yeast to 1 cup warm water, stir evenly. |
2. Add 3 cups of general purpose flour, add to the water-yeast mix gradually, using a pair of chopstick to stir evenly.
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| Add 3 cups flour to the yeast-water mix |
3. Hand knead the dough together for a few minutes.
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| Hand knead the dough for a few minutes |
4. Divide the dough into 1 dozen smaller dough. To make smaller more delicate pastries, divide into 2 dozen smaller dough.
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| Divide the dough into 12 smaller pieces |
5. Use a rolling pin to make flat 3 inch diameter round wrappers.
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| Use rolling pin to make 3 inch wide flat wrapper |
6. The wrapper can be used in a varieties of traditional Chinese pastry, such as buns, dumplings, etc.
Once the buns are wrapped with fillings, let it sit for 10-20 minutes before steam.
Tip:
If you need to make dough frequently, it is worth investing on a basic bread maker. It has "dough" menu, which is pretty easy to use. The steps are typically these:
1. Select "dough" menu on the bread maker.
2. Add 1 cup of warm water to the bread maker's container.
3. Add 3 cups of all purpose flour.
4. Put a dent on the flour, add 1 tablespoon dry yeast.
5. Start the bread maker, it will make the dough, let it go for 5 minutes, then stop the bread maker. Take the dough out, it is ready for making buns.
The dough can be used to make a varieties of delicious buns, dumplings, pot sticker with different fillings, check out these delicious recipes:
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