Moist & Rich Pumpkin Mantou With Guava Paste

I live in a place where we have only summer the whole year long and a short fake autumn. Our fall is about by the end of the year or before Chinese New Year, where the rubber trees begun to stop producing the latex and the leaves of these trees will became brown and fall off immediately after that. The plantation workers will have to stop rubber tapping the trees for about one to two months time. But before that happened, we're expecting more rains and it's quite windy at the same time right now. Though, we can still have pumpkins at anytime.... yeap, no season or whatever!

And here's my hearty steamed pumpkin mantou to join in the crowds.

Ingredients for Pumpkin Dough :

250gm flour
1 tspn baking powder
200gm mashed pumpkin
5 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp olive oil
40ml lukewarm water
1 tspn yeast
* extra flour for dusting
* 1/3 cup guava paste, diced

Method :
(1) combine water and yeast , set aside for 5 mins.
(2) place flour, sugar baking, powder and mashed pumpkin in a big mixing bowl.
(3) stir yeast mixture into dry ingredients and mix to form a soft dough.
(4) add in the olive oil and knead to combine.
(5) leave to rest for 30 mins before shaping.

(6) flatten the dough, spread the diced guava paste on and roll it up like a swiss roll.
(7) divide into 6 portion and place them to the greaseproof paper.
(8) finally, steam for 10 mins over high heat.

The dough is quite moist and soft. Must handle with care. ^_^

Oh Boy! The smell of pumpkin is so strong and amazing. And an extra sweetness from the melting guava paste is absolutely fantastic..... Hmmm...mm.... Just imagine to have these in your hearty creamy soup. Yummm.....