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Tangzhong Shokupan

Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
fermentation process 3 hours
Cuisine Japanese

Equipment

  • 1 pot
  • 1 bowl
  • 1 stand mixer
  • 1 oven
  • 1 Loaf Bread Mold 215×110×120mm

Ingredients
  

Tangzhong

  • 20 g bread flour
  • 50 g water
  • 50 g whole milk

Dough

  • 380 g bread flour
  • 30 g sugar
  • 7 g salt
  • 6 g instant dry yeast
  • 250 g water
  • 25 g unsalted butter

Instructions
 

Tangzhong

  • Put all the ingredients in a pot and whisk well.
    Cook over medium-low heat stirring constantly until it makes slurry.
    Cool to room temperature befure using.

Dough

  • put all the dry ingredients into a stand mixer bowl.While the mixer running, add in heavy cream and milk and water.It’s always a good idea to scrape down the side.Knead for five minutes or until the gluten develops.
  • Add a room temperature Tangzhong, and knead for another five minutes. Knead until the dough stretches thinly.
  • Add the room temperature butter. Knead another 2 to 3 minutes until the dough comes back together.

First Rise

  • Grease the bowl with a couple of drops of vegetable oil or oil spray.Shape your door into a bowl and cover with a plastic wrap.Let it rise at the warm spot for 30 to 45 minutes.

Punch

  • After 30 minutes, the doors should puff up a little bit.We are using a heavy cream that prevents the proofing, so we need to activate the yeast by punching.Fold the edges of the dough into the center and shape into a ball.What this does is releasing the gas and take a fresh air into the dough, and activate the yeast to the enen more.
  • If you poke the dough with a dusted finger, and it doesn't spring back, it is proofed enough.Take out the dough on the dusted working surface and divide into 2.

Shaping

  • Shape into a ball, cover with the plastic wrap to prevent drying out. Let them relax for 15 mins.This is called bench time or bench rest.Bench rest makes it easy to shape into a final shape.
  • After 15 mins, take out the rested dough, shape into a ball. Strech the surface under and pinch to seal.

Second rise and Baking

  • Put it into greased mold side by side.Cover with a plastic wrap and let it rise at a warm spot for 45 to 50 mins or until rises half an inch below the edge. Preheat the oven to 180 ℃(375℉)
  • Cover the lid and pot it into the oven for 40 mins.
  • Take out from the mold and put on a wire rack to cool completely.
Keyword bread baking, moist bread, shokupan, tangzhong