Change your daily diet for a touch of newness in life, and pumpkin snow skin mooncake is a great choice, not limited to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Next, let’s explore the process of making pumpkin snow skin mooncakes.
The ingredients include: 70g glutinous rice flour, 60g sticky rice flour, 40g wheat starch, 180ml red spinach juice, 350g pumpkin puree filling, 20ml corn oil, 25g granulated sugar, and appropriate amount of rice flour.
The production steps are briefly described as follows: 1. Mix all the flours and sieve them into a stainless steel plate. 2. Add red spinach juice, corn oil, and sugar, stir until smooth without lumps, forming a thin batter, let it sit for 30 minutes. 3. After resting, place the plate over boiling water, steam on high heat for 20 minutes until the batter is cooked and glossy. 4. After steaming, vigorously stir the batter until smooth. If there are still lumps, let it cool, then knead with gloves until smooth, the snow skin is ready. 5. Divide the snow skin and pumpkin filling into appropriate portions, recommended ratio is 1:1, adjust weight for each portion based on mold size. 6. Flatten a piece of snow skin, wrap the pumpkin filling, pinch and roll it into a ball. 7. Use rice flour to dust the mooncake mold to prevent sticking, place the filled mold, press and flatten. 8. Finally, invert and gently push the mold to release the mooncake, excess rice flour can be brushed off.
Regarding the pumpkin filling: – Select 1000g peeled and cubed pumpkin, steam in an electric pressure cooker, discard excess water. – Mash the pumpkin finely, sieve for smoother texture. Initially stir-fry until semi-dry, gradually add corn oil and sugar, continue stirring. – As the pumpkin puree dries, add wheat starch in batches, stir until fully incorporated, making the filling sticky and firm. – Cool the cooked filling, divide and roll into balls for later use.
Making pumpkin snow skin mooncakes, enjoying the process is more important than the result. Regardless of the final product, the sweetness made by hand adds a bright touch to daily life. After all, the joy brought by good food transcends form and festival boundaries.
