Pumpkin Buns

By Padfoot N Luna

Ingredients

• for the filling:
• 100 g navy beans
• 200 g pumpkin
• 80 g sweetener(I used cane sugar)
• for the dough:
• 300 g bread flour
• 50 g pumpkin skin
• 120 g water
• 5 g dried yeast
• 1 tsp spirulina(just for color. you could skip this)
• 10 g sweetener(I used palm sugar)
• 15 g oil
• 3 g salt
• some pumpkin seeds for garnish on top
• 8 80cm/30inch strings

Details

Servings 8
Adapted from youtu.be

Preparation

Step 1

1. soak navy beans overnight then boil. add sweetener and keep simmering for 30 - 40 minutes until it gets soft and water is almost gone.
2. steam pumpkin and separate the skin and the flesh.
3. blend beans, pumpkin and sweetener with food processor.
4. put all the ingredients of the dough and knead well.
5. wait until it doubles in volume.
6. divide the dough into 8 equal pieces.
7. roll out the dough to 6 inch/15cm round shape.
8. wrap the filling with the dough.
9. loosely tighten the dough with strings.
10. wait for 20 - 30 minutes(second fermentation)
11. bake at 320F/160C for 20 minutes.
12. stick pumpkin seed on top:)