Steamed Pumpkin Pau

I had some leftover mooncake lotus paste and so I decided to make these steamed Pumpkin Pau with them. I adapted this recipe from Nasi Lemak Lover but I guessed my skills wasn't as good compared to hers. I found the dough of 30g a bit too much (as it will rise larger), I reduced to 25g instead. My MIL and my girl said it was nice, tasted like the normal pau sold outside.

Ingredients

150g mashed pumpkin
225g all purpose flour
1 tbsp sugar
1/3 tsp salt

To make Yeast water
1 tbsp lukewarm water
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp instant yeast

Filling
Lotus paste (you can replaced with red bean paste, peanut or etc)
Pumpkin skin- cut into small piece to make as pumpkin’s stem

Directions

1. Add in all ingredients and yeast water in a mixing bowl and knead till smooth dough.
2. Cover with damp cloth and rest for 60 mins.
3. Knock down dough to expel some air, transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead for a while.
4. Weigh out 25g of dough and roughly shape into a ball.
5. Weight lotus paste 15g and lightly shape into ball.
6. Fatten out the dough into a circle. Place lotus filling onto the center, wrap and pleat up the sides and seal.
7. Use a butter knife, mark from top and lightly press down towards bottom, keep a small gap in between, repeat this step till whole dough ball finished. Place a small piece of pumpkin skin at the middle and lightly press down.
8. Place the pumpkin buns (pleat area face down) onto a piece of greaseproof paper, on the rack for steaming. Cover with a piece of damp cloth and let rise for another 10-15 mins.
9. Lightly mark bun with butter knife again (to sharpen the pattern), steam the buns under rapidly boiling water on high heat for about 15mins.
10. Wait for 2mins then only open the lid and remove from the steamer.