How to Make Perfect Matcha red bean braided bread

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If you've never tried the flavour combination of slightly bitter matcha and sweetness of red. Matcha red bean cake: three layers of honey matcha cake filled with sweetened red bean paste and lightly coated with matcha buttercream. While I grew up eating sweetened red bean (in ice cream, milky bread buns, dessert soups,etc), Alex is fairly new to it. You can cook Matcha red bean braided bread using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Matcha red bean braided bread

1. You need 100 g of red bean and 80g sweetener (for red bean paste).
2. It's 250 g of bread flour.
3. Prepare 300 ml of warm water (can try from 280g then slowly add to prevent watery dough).
4. Prepare 5 g of dried yeast.
5. You need 20 g of oil.
6. It's 20 g of sweetener.
7. Prepare 3/4 tsp of salt.
8. It's 1 tbsp of matcha powder.

He still needs a little convincing. The bread is stuffed with mochi and red bean paste filling. This adds a sweetness and a chewy texture to the bread. While the matcha flavor remains, the red bean paste covers its bitterness.

Matcha red bean braided bread step by step

1. Boil red bean, throw boiling water away as soon as water boil.
2. Add cold water and keep simmering until soft.
3. Add sweetener and keep simmering until water is almost gone.
4. Blend all of the dough ingredients except matcha.
5. Knead well (put some flour on table surface to prevent stick).
6. Divide dough into two and add matcha powder into one of it.
7. Wait for it to ferment until double its size (around an hour).
8. Divide both of the dough into two pieces (get 2 white 2 green dough) and roll out.
9. Place one white dough at the bottom, then red bean, then one green dough, then red bean, then one white dough, then one green dough.
10. Cut dough into 6-8 pieces and slash two lines then braid the dough.
11. Ferment again until almost double its size.
12. Bake at 180c or 350F for 20mins.

As you all know, red bean and matcha is always the best combo for desserts. I simply couldn't resist to bake something while I was away from home recently. My hand was so itchy that just couldn't stop touching those utensil in the kitchen of my mother-in-law. She had ready made red bean paste so we decided to make some red bean buns together using her new bread machine. Matcha red bean buns - Green tea adzuki buns (Tang Zhong method).