How to Cook Perfect Matcha red bean braided bread

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While the matcha flavor remains, the red bean paste covers its bitterness. As you all know, red bean and matcha is always the best combo for desserts. Matcha red bean cake: three layers of honey matcha cake filled with sweetened red bean paste and lightly coated with matcha buttercream. You can cook Matcha red bean braided bread using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Matcha red bean braided bread

1. Prepare 100 g of red bean and 80g sweetener (for red bean paste).
2. Prepare 250 g of bread flour.
3. Prepare 300 ml of warm water (can try from 280g then slowly add to prevent watery dough).
4. You need 5 g of dried yeast.
5. You need 20 g of oil.
6. Prepare 20 g of sweetener.
7. It's 3/4 tsp of salt.
8. Prepare 1 tbsp of matcha powder.

While I grew up eating sweetened red bean (in ice cream, milky bread buns, dessert soups,etc), Alex is fairly new to it. He still needs a little convincing. These Matcha Buns are filled with Sweet Red Bean Paste and are a popular choice in every Japanese bakery. Matcha buns aka Anpan is a classic Japanese soft bun pastry filled with sweet red bean paste.

Matcha red bean braided bread step by step

1. Boil red bean, throw boiling water away as soon as water boil.
2. Add cold water and keep simmering until soft.
3. Add sweetener and keep simmering until water is almost gone.
4. Blend all of the dough ingredients except matcha.
5. Knead well (put some flour on table surface to prevent stick).
6. Divide dough into two and add matcha powder into one of it.
7. Wait for it to ferment until double its size (around an hour).
8. Divide both of the dough into two pieces (get 2 white 2 green dough) and roll out.
9. Place one white dough at the bottom, then red bean, then one green dough, then red bean, then one white dough, then one green dough.
10. Cut dough into 6-8 pieces and slash two lines then braid the dough.
11. Ferment again until almost double its size.
12. Bake at 180c or 350F for 20mins.

If you've never tried the flavour combination of slightly bitter matcha and sweetness of red. This matcha swirl bread is so soft and fluffy. The beautiful swirl look does give it a wonderful touch. Making this swirl bread is easier than it looks, trust me. I haven't tried it but you could try dividing the dough into smaller ones and braid them so that they hold the shape better when they're.