sweet potato and brown sugar mantou

Although not the prettiest, these are the sweet potato (yellow/orange) and brown sugar (pale brown) mantou or steamed buns that I made this past weekend. The recipe comes from Kristina Cho’s Mooncakes and Milk Bread cookbook, and the recipe came together quite easily! The base dough is simply all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder, some sugar, yeast, and water. The sweet potato dough has a bit of pureed sweet potato mixed in, and the brown sugar dough has the obvious ingredient in it, too. To form these, I made small circles of dough, overlapped a bit and then rolled up and cut in half to make little roses. But you could easily just do a simple mantou roll shape as well!