Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, matcha and ama-natto frog shaped buns. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Matcha and Ama-Natto Frog Shaped Buns is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Matcha and Ama-Natto Frog Shaped Buns is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have matcha and ama-natto frog shaped buns using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Matcha and Ama-Natto Frog Shaped Buns:
- Prepare (The bread dough)
- Take 135 grams Bread flour
- Get 15 grams Cake flour
- Get 3 grams Dry yeast
- Prepare 80 ml or so Milk
- Get 1 grams Salt
- Prepare 15 grams Sugar
- Get 10 grams Butter
- Prepare 25 grams Egg
- Get 4 grams Matcha
- Get (Other)
- Prepare 100 grams Adzuki bean amanatto
- Prepare 1 Egg wash
Steps to make Matcha and Ama-Natto Frog Shaped Buns:
- Wash the sugar on the ama-natto with hot water, and pat dry with paper towels. Reserve 10 beans to use for the eyes.
- Mix all the dough ingredients together except for the butter. Add the butter, and knead well.
- Use the proofing setting of your oven for the 1st rising.
- Take the dough out, and make 5 portions weighing 10 g each (for the eyes). Divide the rest of the dough into 10 (for the faces). Let the dough rest for 10 minutes.
- Roll out the dough for the faces, and fill each piece with 1/10 of the ama-natto. Seal in well. Make 10 pieces the same way.
- Put two face pieces together, and pinch the sides firmly. Divide each piece of eye-dough into 2, roll into balls and put on top of the face part.
- Put the frog buns on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and let rise again (2nd rising) for about 30 to 40 minutes. As soon as they have risen, pre-heat the oven.
- Brush the frog buns with egg wash. Make a dent in each eye ball with chopsticks, and push in the reserved ama-natto.
- Bake for 13 minutes in a preheated 340F/170℃ oven. If the surface is getting too browned, cover with aluminium foil.
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