Green tea bread with red bean paste. Amongst all their tasty breads, I like their green tea buns with red bean fillings the most. Although the taste of my buns were a bit different from the Breadtop's, as I used 宇治抹茶 and homemade sweet red bean paste, their look were quite similar to Breadtop's. Green tea Buns with Adzuki beans.

The bitterness from green tea complements the sweetness from the red bean paste really well. I figured that the red bean paste would add the richness and sweetness to the breads. Therefore, the recipe should be fine with just enriched bread. You can have Green tea bread with red bean paste using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Green tea bread with red bean paste

You need 180 g of bread flour.
You need 20 g of wheat flour.
It's 40 g of sugar.
You need 1 tsp of dry yeast.
Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
It's 80 ml of warm milk.
You need 80 ml of warm water.
Prepare 2 tbsp of green tea powder.
You need 200 g of red bean paste.
You need 30 g of butter.

Cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, muffins, scones, short- rye- wheat- and naan breads welcome! I love red bean filling and never thought of making mochi myself! Learning to love the green tea-red bean combination. We're taking a little break from the Japan travel blogs because I haven't had the time to make the next posts in the But what else should I write about except this Japanese-inspired bread?

Green tea bread with red bean paste step by step

Mix warm water and warm milk together. Put dry yeast into the mixture and leave it for 3 mins..
Mix bread flour, wheat flour, sugar, salt and green tea powder together. Pour the milk water mixture into the dry ingredients and quickly mix well to form a dough..
Transfer the dough onto a pastry board, gather the dough together. Knead the dough by hands until less sticky. Fold in butter and knead until smooth. This process usually takes 15 mins..
Knead the dough into a ball shape, let it rest in warm place (around 40C) for 30 min or until the dough is double in size..
Divide the dough into 8 equal portions. Knead the dough into a ball and flatten out the dough. Wrap 25g of red bean paste into the dough and pinch to close. Repeat the process until you get 8 balls..
Place the dough in warm place (40C) for 30 min again. Preheat the oven to 180C..
After that, cut each dough with kitchen scissors for 5 times and you will get a flower shape dough. Repeat the process for all the dough..
Place the dough in the oven at 180C and bake for 15-17min or until golden brown..
When the bread is done, place them on the wire rack to cool completely..

This has been on my drafts folder for such a looooong long time. Green tea bread with red bean paste. Green tea flavour is now really popular and combining with red bean is always a good choice. Smooth and delicate triple layered Green Tea Pudding with Japanese red bean paste, this delicious dessert is super easy to make at home. Throughout the year I receive many requests for Japanese desserts, especially with matcha (green tea) as an ingredient.