Taiwanese street food festival 台味食煮- Day 12 - Taiwanese Green Onion Bread 台式蔥花麵包

March 18, 2014

Taiwanese street food festival 台味食煮- Day 12 - Taiwanese Green Onion Bread 台式蔥花麵包

Bread is way too important to me. I can survive without having rice for a year, but bread is essential for every single day, I know it might sound weird for being an asian. The truth is I have more the same appetite as my mom has, while the rest of family are rice consumers. Although I am more fond of european-style bread with flavorous chewing texture, I do eat taiwanese bread from time to time especially after moving to Holland.

There is a bakery near by our house offering various taiwanese bread with good price. (It was 10 cents euros for each when I was a child, and now is 25-30 cent for each) Taiwanese bread is soft, moist and quite addictive with both sweet and savory flavor. The sweet ones are normally with strawberry jam, cream, taro paste or coconut butter. The savory one, also dad's favorite, is topped by generous chopped green onion with or without dry shredded pork (肉鬆; maˋ- huˋ). This reminds me the happy moments with family to choose own bread for breakfast in the bakery. Everyone ended up choosing more than one kind of bread just because it was hard to decide the best one, I could not name it even till now.

Bakery- Taiwanese bread assortment

I picked green onion bread as a starting point because its dad's favorite. He is not a bread person, yet this is what he would appreciate if its on the table. I thought it is hard to make Taiwanese bread without addictive supplement to create a fluffy and moist texture, in fact, it can be done easily by investing a little bit more time and care during kneading process to make a warm, healthy and hearty taiwanese bread from scratch.

Ingredient:（Serving 6 green onion bread)

Dough
1. 230g all purpose flour
2. 1 egg
3. 120cc milk, divided. 80cc for dough mixture, 40cc for kneading process
4. 1 Tsp sugar
5. 1/3 tsp dry yeast
6. Pinch of salt
7. 20g unsalted butter

Topping
1. 1 cup chopped green onion
2. 1 egg
3. 1 Tsp olive oil
4. 1 tsp black pepper powder
5. Salt for taste

Instruction:

1. Mix ingredients 1-6 in a big bowel, combine into a dough. Place the dough on the working table, start kneading for at least 10 minutes. Add the rest of 40cc milk in batch during kneading process. The dough should be very tender and able to spread to a thin film.

2. Add butter into dough and combine thoroughly. Cover with a damped towel and leave for 1-2 hours until it double its size.

3. Divide the dough into six equally portions. Make each of portion into a smooth small ball. Leave for 30 mins.

4. Flat the dough into an oval-shaped, fold the dough at the longer edge toward center to make it a football-shaped. Use a knife and make a deep slide in the middle. Repeat for the rest doughs.

5. Place on the baking paper with a nice distance in between. Put into oven and leave for another 30-40 mins for the second prof.