Chestnut and Milk Tea Bread Rolls
- 200 grams Bread (strong) flour
- 20 grams Sugar
- 3 grams Salt
- 4 grams Instant dry yeast
- 20 grams Butter
- 1 tbsp The syrup from chestnuts simmered in their skins
- 100 to 120 grams, chestnuts only Chestnuts simmered in their skins
- 1/2 tbsp Black tea leaves
- 120 ml Milk
- 50 ml Water
- 1 dash Milk (to brush on the rolls)
- Put the steps milk and water in a small pan, and heat.
- When it comes to a boil add the tea leaves, and simmer until the mixture is strongly tea flavored.
- (Please adjust the amount of tea leaves used depending on the type.)
- Take out 140 ml of the liquid from step 1, and let it cool down to about body temperature.
- If there isn't enough liquid, add milk up to the 140 ml mark.
- If there's more than you need, just drink up the remainder.
- Put the bread flour, sugar, salt and dry yeast in a bowl.
- Add the milk tea from step 2 and the syrup from the chestnuts.
- Mix well.
- When it has more or less come together, add the butter and mix it in too.
- When it has formed a cohesive mass, take the dough out onto a work surface and knead well with your hands.
- Knead for at least 10 minutes.
- When the dough comes off the work surface cleanly and is nice and shiny it's done.
- Round it off into a ball, place in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and leave for the 1st rising.
- When the dough had doubled in volume, punch it down to deflate it.
- Round it off again, cover with a tightly wrung out moistened kitchen towel or plastic wrap, and rest for 10 minutes.
- Chop up the chestnuts simmered in their skins to about 5mm dices.
- Roll out with a rolling pin to about a 25x25cm square.
- Scatter the chopped up chestnuts on the dough evenly.
- Roll up the dough from the side closest to you, trying to avoid creating any air pockets.
- Cut into 8 portions with a knife.
- Line the slices in pairs on a kitchen parchment paper-lined baking sheet, so that the rolled up ends are sticking together (like figure-8s).
- Cover with plastic wrap and leave in a warm place until they are 1.5 times their original volume.
- Brush the surface thinly with milk, and bake in a preheated 180C oven for 20 minutes.
- Cool the baked rolls on a cooling rack.
- When they have cooled down, they're done.
bread, sugar, salt, yeast, butter, syrup from, chestnuts only, black tea, milk, water, milk
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/153808-chestnut-and-milk-tea-bread-rolls (may not work)