Twisted Soy Milk Bread with Amanatto (Candied Beans) and Green Tea
- 250 grams Strong bread flour
- 25 grams Sugar
- 4 grams Salt
- 3 grams Dried yeast
- 180 grams Soy milk
- 25 grams Unsalted butter
- 110 grams Amanatto
- 4 grams Matcha
- 20 to 30 grams Granulated sugar
- Mix the ingredients.
- Line a loaf tin with baking paper.
- Put flour, sugar, salt, dried yeast and soy milk in a bread maker and press start on the dough setting.
- After 5 minutes, add the butter.
- Take out the dough from the pan and knock the air out gently.
- Shape into a ball and let it sit for 20 minutes.
- Turn over the dough and press gently with your fist.
- Roll out the dough with a rolling pin into a 25 cm x 30 cm rectangle.
- Sprinkle matcha and sugar mixture evenly on the dough.
- Arrange the amanatto on top.
- Press gently with your hand to make the amanatto stick to the dough.
- Roll up the dough and seal the joint and both ends well.
- Roll the dough into a 30 cm-long cylinder shape.
- Cut in half lengthways leaving 2 cm-length uncut at one end.
- Open the dough and turn up the cut ends.
- Make a cross by alternating the two arms of dough.
- Ensure that the cut ends always face up.
- Repeat this process to make another cross.
- Repeat the same process until you make three crosses.
- Seal the ends by sticking together both ends.
- Lay the shaped dough horizontally.
- Hold both ends and press the dough towards the centre by twisting.
- Put the dough into the prepared tin.
- Leave to prove until the highest part of the dough reaches 1 cm lower than the tin depth.
- Preheat the oven to 390F/200C.
- Reduce the oven temperature to 355F/180C and bake the dough for 30 minutes.
- It will burn easily, so cover with a piece of foil if necessary.
- After baking take the bread out from the oven and drop it from a height of 15 cm to remove the excess air.
- Leave it to cool on a cooling rack.
bread flour, sugar, salt, yeast, milk, butter, matcha, sugar
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/145821-twisted-soy-milk-bread-with-amanatto-candied-beans-and-green-tea (may not work)