Red Bean Bun

Recently I love to make bread. Although I know eat a lot of bread will gain weight also, but I still interesting on it. Red bean bun also a favor bun of my mom and the kids also love it.There still have 2/3 bag red bean paste leave over form the previous Tang Yuan. So today I’ll make the red bean bun for the next day breakfast.

Let’s see what have to prepared

TongZhong Roux Ingredients  :

- 10g (1 1/2tbsp) Bread Flour (Also can use all multipurpose flour)

- 55ml water

Dough Ingredients :

- 25ml WramMilk

- 3g (1tsp) Yeast

- 15g (4tsp) Sugar

- 90g (12tbsp) Bread Flour (Also can use all multipurpose flour)

- 1tbsp egg

- 5g butter

Other Ingredients :

- Red Bean Paste

- Egg (for egg wash )

Instruction :

Part 1 - TongZhong Roux

- Firstly we have to prepare the TongZhong Roux before we make the dough. Take a small pot add in 

  55ml water and the 10g Flour and mix it well

- Turn up low heat and warm up the TongZhong liquid and nonstop stir until thickened.

- When be thickened then can set aside to cool. After can start to prepare the yeast.

Part 2 - Yeast

- Warm the milk and add in to the big bowl. 

- Add in 1tsp sugar and stir until dissolved into the milk .

- Add 1tsp yeast and keep stir until the yeast mix well with the milk. 

- Allow the yeast prove for 10 to 15 mins. (Then you can see there have some some bubbles in there)

 Part 3 - Dough

- While the yeast ready add in the TongZhong Roux and stir well.

- Add in 1tbsp egg in the mixture and mix it.

- Add in the balance of Sugar and keep stir.

- Add a pinch of salt and the 90g flour

- Use the spoon slowly mix all the mixture.

- Then can start knead with hand until forms dough.

- While the dough mix it well then can add in 5g butter can keep knead about 10 to 15 minutes.

- Cover with the wrapping plastic and allow to rise for 1 hour.

- After an hour, the dough should be double or bigger size than that. 

Part 4 - Make the Red Bean bread

- Press dough to release the air.

- Divided the dough to 20 small ball and make a round ball out of each piece.

- Refer to the below and make the bun .

- After the shape done and cover with the plastic wrapping and let rise for 30 min.

- After the sausage bread will rise double size and can egg wash it

- Put into the preheat oven bake 15 minutes  180 ͒ .

There have many way to make the red bean bun shape, i just follow few of it to make it. 

Fan Red Bean Bun Shape

- Take a round dough and flatten a ball until it is about 3 inches in diameter 

- Place 1 red bean ball in the center.

- Fold the dough up and over the red bean paste to cover it

- Seal the center tightly so that the red bean paste will not come out.

- Put the sealed part face down on a mat and press the dough into about a 2 inch diameter.

- Cut 8 decorative slits around the edge, equally spaced apart.

Flower Red Bean Bun Shape

- Take a round dough and flatten a ball until it is about 3 inches in diameter 

- Place 1 red bean ball in the center.

- Fold the dough up and over the red bean paste to cover it

- Seal the center tightly so that the red bean paste will not come out.

- Use the roll pin flatten out the dough as round shape

- Use the knife slide it but don't slide until bottom

- Turn over the flatten dough and start to roll it.

French Cut Red Bean Bun

- Take a round dough and flatten a ball until it is about 3 inches in diameter 

- Place 1 red bean ball in the center.

- Fold the dough up and over the red bean paste to cover it

- Seal the center tightly so that the red bean paste will not come out.

- Use the roll pin flatten out the dough as rectangle

- Roll it like the Swiss roll style

- Use the scissors cut like French Cut. 

Steph's Home Cook Red Bean Bun