French Bread with Mentaiko using a Bread Maker
- 1 Mentaiko (salt-cured spicy pollack or cod roe)
- 50 grams Cream cheese
- 1 tsp Lemon juice (optional)
- 100 grams each Bread (strong) flour, and Pastry flour
- 10 grams Sugar
- 4 grams Salt
- 20 grams Butter
- 2 1/2 grams Instant dry yeast
- 120 grams Water (Use cold water in summer time, 35C water in winter time)
- Microwave cream cheese for 10 second until soft.
- Mix with lemon juice and mentaiko (remove the skin around the mentaiko in advance), and chill in the fridge to harden.
- Put the bread ingredients into the bread pan.
- Select dough-only setting that will finish after the 1st rising.
- When you knead by hand, also that's fine to knead butter at the same time.
- Deflate and divide the dough into 6 pieces.
- Cover with a moist tea towel and rest for 15 minutes.
- After that, flatten the dough and wrap the mentaiko filling securely.
- When the dough has doubled in volume, the 2nd rising is done.
- Spray water on the dough, hover a fork over the top, and sprinkle with flour to make the designs.
- Bake in the preheated oven at 390F/200C to 430F/220C for 18 minutes.
- My oven is an old electric oven, so please adjust the temperature.
- Cutting into the dough to let moisture escape from the filling might be a nice touch.
- There is a space on top of the filling because of the moisture, but no leaking.
saltcured spicy pollack, cream cheese, lemon juice, bread, sugar, salt, butter, yeast, water
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/168238-french-bread-with-mentaiko-using-a-bread-maker (may not work)