Melonpan

Name: Melonpan
Total time: 10800 s
Yield: 8 pieces
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: [Bread dough]; 250 g bread flour; 2 g dried yeast; 1/2 beaten egg; 60 mL water; 75 g milk; 25 g sugar; 4 g salt; 25 g butter; [Cookie dough]; 200 g all-purpose flour; 60 g sugar; 1/2 beaten egg; 100 g butter; 1 tbsp grated lemon peel

Mogco Tokyo @harakiricafe

Tokyo, Japan

Melonpan, which many Japanese people (including Dorami-chan, Doraemon's sister) love, is bread covered with cookie dough. Don't get confused: Melonpan was named after melons, but we cannot find any melons in the recipe. "Melon-looking-bread" - that's the Melonpan!
#bread #fluffy #Japanese sweets

Mogco Tokyo @harakiricafe

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Ingredients

2 - 3 hours

8 pieces

[Bread dough]
250 gbread flour
2 gdried yeast
1/2beaten egg
60 mLwater
75 gmilk
25 gsugar
4 gsalt
25 gbutter
[Cookie dough]
200 gall-purpose flour
60 gsugar
1/2beaten egg
100 gbutter
1 tbspgrated lemon peel

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Steps

2 - 3 hours

1

[Preparation of bread dough] In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Add sugar, bread flour, and salt.
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Turn onto a table; knead until smooth and elastic.
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Add some butter and knead for more a few minutes. Place the dough in a bowl, cover, and rise in a warm place until doubled.
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[Preparation of cookie dough] In a bowl, put softened butter and stir until the texture becomes creamy. Add some sugar and mix it. Then add beaten egg and grated lemon. And mix it well.
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Add all-purpose flour and mix it until it gathers together. Turn onto a table and knead its texture becomes smooth. Then wrap with a wrapping film and put it in a fridge for about 30 minutes.
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Punch the bread dough down and divide the bread dough into eight parts. Cover divided dough with a wrapping film; leave them for 10 minutes.
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Divide the cookie dough into eight parts. Round divided bread dough into a sphere.
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Roll out the cookie dough to make a flat circle. Then take one divided bread dough and cover with the cookie dough.
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Put lines to make mesh pattern like a melon.
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Cover the shaped dough with a wrapping film. And leave it at room temperature for about 60 minutes.
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Pre-heat an oven at 190 ºC (374 °F) and bake for about 16 minutes.