Hokkaido Milk Bread
This bread is light, fluffy and so incredibly soft. The flavor reminds of a Hawaiian sweet roll. So great for french toast!
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 2 ½ cup Flour
- ¼ cup Sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
Tangzhong
- 3 tbsp Water
- 3 tbsp Milk
- 3 tbsp Flour
Yeast Mixture
- 1 tbsp Dry active yeast
- ½ cup Milk
- 1 egg
- 4 tbsp Butter
- ½ tsp Sugar
Instructions
Dry Ingredients
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar and salt
Tangzhong
- Mix together water, milk and flour. Put over heat and stir until thickens. Set aside and let cool.
Yeast Mixture
- Microwave milk for 30 seconds and then add yeast and sugar. Let sit for 5-10 minutes to activate.
- Once yeast is activated, mix in melted butter and egg.
- Add yeast mixture to tangzhong. *Make sure tangzhong is cooled
Hokkaido Milk Bread
- Pour mixed tangzhong and yeast mixture to dry ingredients. Mix until well combined.
- Lightly flour your work surface and start to knead dough until it becomes smooth.
- Put back in mixing bowl, coat in oil and let rise in a warm, dark place for an hour.
- After an hour, take dough back out and divide into 4 equal portions. Roll those pieces of dough into a shape of a ball.
- Roll out each piece of dough to a rectangle. Fold both ends inward.
- Flip the folded dough length wise, roll out again and roll into a spiral.
- Lightly grease a loaf pan and put all the pieces of spiraled dough in the pan.
- Let rise for another 20 minutes.
- After it has risen, brush the rolls with an egg wash.
- Bake in a 350° oven for 30 minutes.
- Let cool and pull apart this soft, fluffy dough!
Video
@yukacalifornia This is Hokkaido Milk Bread! A #japanese bread that is light, fluffy and sweet. So good! #breadrecipes #homebaking #bakingtutorials
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Notes
This recipe was adopted from https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/japanese-milk-bread-rolls-recipe