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Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, melon pan [melon-shaped bun]. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Melon Pan [Melon-Shaped Bun] is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Melon Pan [Melon-Shaped Bun] is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook melon pan [melon-shaped bun] using 15 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Melon Pan [Melon-Shaped Bun]:

1. Make ready Cookie Crust
2. Take 35 g unsalted butter, room temperature
3. Prepare 50 g granulated white sugar
4. Prepare 30 g lightly beaten egg
5. Prepare 110 g low protein wheat flour/cake flour
6. Take 1/4 tsp pandan paste, can be substituted with 1 tsp matcha powder
7. Take Bread dough
8. Make ready 110 g high protein wheat flour/bread flour
9. Prepare 40 g low protein wheat flour/cake flour
10. Prepare 18 g granulated white sugar
11. Get 1/4 tsp salt
12. Get 1 tsp instant yeast
13. Take 80 ml milk, warm to 40-50°C or follow your yeast product instruction
14. Take 20 g lightly beaten egg
15. Take 14 g unsalted butter, room temperature

Steps to make Melon Pan [Melon-Shaped Bun]:

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2. Cookie dough: In a medium bowl, whisk butter until creamy. Then whisk in sugar until thoroughly combined.
3. Add egg and whisk until well-blended.
4. Switch to a silicone spatula and mix in flour until almost combined. Then add pandan and mix thoroughly.
5. Transfer onto a cling wrap. Wrap and refrigerate until firm.
6. Bread dough: In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt, and yeast. Make a well on its center.
7. Pour milk and egg into the center. Using a wooden spoon, stir the dry mixture into the wet mixture until all dry is absorbed.
8. Transfer dough onto work surface and start kneading with your hands for about 1 minute. Then wrap butter into the dough.
9. Continue kneading. It will be messy and oily. But the more we knead, the less sticky it becomes. Add a little flour onto the work surface and the dough if it is easier for you to knead.
10. After 10-15 minutes of kneading, the dough will become smooth, elastic and not sticky. Transfer into a bowl. Cover the bowl with a cling wrap. Let it ferment for about 1 hour or until double in size.
11. Meanwhile, divide cookie dough evenly into 10 balls. Refrigerate again with a cover.
12. After bread dough has doubled in size, release the gas inside by pressing it down. Transfer onto work surface and divide evenly into 10 balls. Cover them with a cling wrap to prevent drying out.
13. Press a chilled cookie ball between two pieces of parchment paper to a thickness of about ¼-inch. You can use a dough scraper or anything with a flat side to press.
14. Take one bread dough and roll again to release any gas. Remove the top parchment paper from the cookie dough. Then place the dough ball onto the center.
15. Flip over so the cookie dough is facing up and remove the second parchment paper. Gently press to wrap all sides of dough ball with the cookie dough. The bottom part of dough ball can be left unwrapped.
16. Dip the ball into a bowl of granulated sugar (2 tbsp) to coat the cookie dough. Then use a dough scraper or knife to gently score criss-cross or any pattern onto the cookie.
17. Place on a baking sheet and cover with a cling wrap. Repeat with the rest. Let them sit and rise until one and a half times bigger.
18. Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F or 200°C for 12 to 15 minutes.

Foods That Make You Happy

For the most part, people have been taught to think that “comfort” foods are not good for the body and have to be avoided. At times, if your comfort food is a high sugar food or some other junk food, this is very true. Other times, though, comfort foods can be completely nourishing and it’s good for you to consume them. There are some foods that actually can raise your moods when you eat them. If you seem to be a little bit down and in need of an emotional pick me up, try a number of these.

Eggs, believe it or not, can be truly wonderful at fighting back depression. Just make sure that you don’t get rid of the yolk. When you want to cheer yourself up, the egg yolk is the most important part of the egg. Eggs, the yolks in particular, are loaded with B vitamins. B vitamins can really help you boost your mood. This is because they help improve the function of your neural transmitters, the parts of your brain that affect your mood. Consume an egg and be happy!

Put together a trail mixout of various seeds and nuts. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and so on are all good for improving your mood. This is because these nuts are loaded with magnesium, which helps to boost serotonin production. Serotonin is known as the “feel good” chemical and it tells your brain how you should be feeling day in and day out. The more of it in your brain, the happier you’ll feel. Not just that but nuts, specifically, are a great protein source.

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Some grains are really wonderful for driving away bad moods. Quinoa, millet, teff and barley are all truly excellent for helping increase your happiness levels. These foods can help you feel full for longer too, which is a mood improver. Feeling famished can actually bring you down! These grains can elevate your mood as it’s not at all hard for your body to digest them. These foods are easier to digest than others which helps jumpstart a rise in your blood glucose which in turn takes your mood to a happier place.

Your mood could actually be helped by green tea. You were simply anticipating to read that, weren’t you? Green tea has been found to be packed full of an amino acid called L-theanine. Studies have discovered that this amino acid essentially stimulates brain waves. This helps sharpen your mental energy while at the same time relaxing the rest of your body. You knew that green tea helps you be healthier. Now you are well aware that it helps you to lift your moods as well!

As you can see, you don’t need to eat all that junk food when you wish to feel better! Try some of these instead!