Hokkaido (Japanese Milk Bread)
Hokkaido (Japanese Milk Bread)

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, hokkaido (japanese milk bread). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

To make the hokkaido milk bread taste even more delicious and soft, I add another ingredient - dry milk powder! This ingredient is often used to make bread taste milkier and softer. If you don't have dry milk powder, you can leave that out and still get soft and delicious bread.

Hokkaido (Japanese Milk Bread) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Hokkaido (Japanese Milk Bread) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have hokkaido (japanese milk bread) using 14 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hokkaido (Japanese Milk Bread):
  1. Get For the starter:
  2. Prepare 1/3 cup bread flour
  3. Make ready 1/2 cup whole milk
  4. Prepare 1/2 cup water
  5. Get For the dough:
  6. Make ready 3 cups bread flour
  7. Take 1 teaspoon salt
  8. Take 1/4 cup sugar
  9. Take 2 1/4 teaspoons rapid rise yeast
  10. Make ready 4 tablespoons softened butter
  11. Take 1 egg room temp
  12. Get 1/2 cup warmed milk
  13. Make ready Milk for brushing on top before baking
  14. Make ready Melted butter to brush on top after cooking

Using the Japanese tangzhong technique yields a very soft and tender loaf of milk bread that beats what you'll find at Asian bakeries.. Hokkaido milk bread - at home with this recipe! I took a bite and it melted right into my mouth, changing my life and all I knew about bread. How to make the softest Hokkaido japanese milk bread without stand mixer or any machine with Tangzhong method (water roux).

Steps to make Hokkaido (Japanese Milk Bread):
  1. In small sauce pan, combine all ingredients for the starter. Whisk until smooth.
  2. On medium heat, cook until thickened. Spoon should leave trail on bottom of pan.
  3. Remove from heat and place in bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and push down so wrap sits on top of starter. This prevents skin from forming.
  4. Mix flour, sugar, yeast half the starter mixtureand salt. Stir until combined.
  5. In stand mixer bowl with doughhook attatched, add flour mixture, butter, egg and milk.
  6. Mix on low speed until dough is sticky but pulls away from sides and doesnt stick to hands.
  7. You may have to add some flour if it appears to loose.
  8. In bowl, grease tops and sides of dough.
  9. Cover with towel and let rise until doubled in size.
  10. Punch down. Divide dough into rolls or loaves. Can even use for cinnamon buns.
  11. Place in greased pan and let rise again.
  12. Brush tops with milk.
  13. Bake at 350 until golden brown.
  14. If browning to fast, cover withfoil until bread is cooked completely.
  15. Serve hot. This bread stays soft for days in wrap.
  16. I made 5 mini loaves and one pan of rolls from this recipe :)
  17. The starter you have left you can make another batch with or recipe can be doubled to use all of the starter.

Cotton-soft Hokkaido milk bread recipe, it's like a dream… I think it was on January of this year, I was scrolling through my YouTube feed and I saw this video on a Japanese channel. Hokkaido Milk Bread - This Japanese style milk bread with a light, fluffy, tender crumb is so delightful to eat that you will get obsessed with it. It is the perfect everyday bread loaf recipe, from sandwiches to french toast, or simply with homemade JAM. When I first set out to make Hokkaido milk bread from scratch, I was nervous. These sky-high, snow-white loaves are the cornerstone of any respectable Asian bakery-feathery soft yet rich and decadent, with wisps of bread that pull away in sheets when you separate its parts.

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