Green tea bread with sweet bean paste

One of my favorite sweet is something with sweetened red bean paste, or you can say that I love eating beans, haha.

Making sweetened red bean paste by yourself is time-consuming, but I make it by myself often. As when you make it by yourself, you can control many things, the sweetness, the texture or the dryness of it. And with my delicious sweetened red bean paste, I can create different kinds of sweet from it too.
This time, I turn it into a bun, but with red beans, the best companion must be green tea right? Very thin but flavourful bread that’s packed with green tea with a load of red bean paste as the filling. I think one might not be enough ^^.

Green tea bread with sweet bean paste

Makes 14 pieces

240 g ………………… Bread Flour
9 g ……………………. Green tea powder
20 g ………………….. Granulated sugar
3 g ……………………. Instant yeast
3 g ……………………. Salt
180 g ………………… Milk
20 g ………………….. King Rice bran oil shortening
560 g ………………… Sweet bean paste (about 40g/ piece)
…………………………. Perilla seeds, for topping
…………………………. Milk for brushing the buns

I use King Rice bran oil shortening.

Put the flour, sugar, instant yeast and green tea powder into a bowl, and whisk to combine.
Put the salt into the bowl, and whisk to combine.

Pour the milk into the bowl, and mix to combine.

Remove the dough from the bowl.

Knead for 2-3 minutes

Place the King Rice bran oil shortening over the dough and knead for 5-6 minutes.

Or until the dough became smooth.

Brush a bowl with shortening.
Put the dough into the bowl, cover with plastic wrap.

Let it rise until double in size (about 1 hour).

Divide the dough into 14 pieces, and roll each piece into a ball.

Cover with plastic wrap, and let it rest for 15 minutes.

Press the dough to 8-9 cm. round.
Place the sweet bean paste (about 40g/ piece) over the dough.

Cover and seal the sweet bean paste.

Cover with plastic wrap, and let it rise for 30 minutes.
Preheat an oven to 180℃.

Brush with milk, and lightly press Perilla seeds on top.

Bake in 180℃ Preheated oven
for 15 minutes

Let it cool on a wire rack.

I make the sweet bean paste by myself, but you can use the commercial sweet bean paste too.

Sweetened red bean paste

300g ………………. Azuki (Japanese Red bean)

1.7g ………………… Baking soda

5g …………………… Agar-agar

150g ……………….. Water

280-300g ……….. Sugar

Put the red bean and baking soda into a large saucepan with 1.7 liters of water, bring the mixture to boil.

When the boiling water becomes green in color, drain the beans and wash for 4-5 times.

Put the beans into a saucepan, with enough water to cover the beans (about 1 liter).

Simmering for 2 hours or until the beans become very soft.

When the beans ready, drain the beans, discard the top part of water, but keep the water on the bottom that contains the bean residue.

Mix the Agar-agar with 150g in a saucepan, place over medium heat until boiling.

Pour the sugar into the saucepan, mix to combine.

Pour the soften beans and the water with beans residue into the agar pan, stir to combine.

boil down until thicken, if you want the paste to become smooth use the hand blender to blend the beans before they become thick.

Green tea bread with sweet bean paste