Green Tea & RedBean Loaf

During the weekend, cooked red bean soup and it still kept in the freezer. Thought of get away to settle it. Then I found this green tea with red bean recipe. Due to the time constrain, this will be the good way to make a loaf than a single little cute bun. Without consider more, and we started on it. In the recipe required the egg size around 35g, but I have throw in a whole egg with 60g. While kneading the dough, it turns to be more sticky than usual.  I just try to add little by little bit more of flour and hope it turn smoother.  I can’t really measure how much flour added after little by little. But it looks better ….

After proof the dough around an hour, it already became double of its size. Roll it like a swiss roll and spread the red bean paste on the dough. A little of greedy, I try to fold in all red bean paste so I could finish off all left over in the freezer. Ooops… then I was thinking will I waste them if its burst out during baking time. Then place it in a well greased bread tin (I used salted butter to grease the tin), cover and let it proof for the second time for 30 mins and it raise around 70% of the tin size. I didn’t wait any longer and just start the oven for the baking course.

~Bake at 180c for about 35 to 40mins~

~5 mins on 200c~

(to get a litte browny and crunchier outer crust)

 

It suppose our next day morning breakfast, but ended up one third already went in our stomach for supper. Although there was little venture here and there and half way Egracia awoke from her after nap, this greeny loaf did tried its very best to become a true green in color, smell with little tea and with lot of red bean friends mingle around.

 

 25g sugar

 5g salt

 250g bread flour

 50g all purpose flour

 4g Instant yeast

 2 teaspoons green tea powder

 145g fresh milk

 1 egg, around 60g egg

 40g butter (unsalted)