I had a light day, as far as bread goes, earlier this week and found great success on a first attempt at a bread with miso paste. I used a white miso, so it was fairly gentle and resulted in a delicately flavored sesame-covered bun. Experience suggests that the soft and chewy bread would also have done very well as a steamed bun with some azuki bean paste rolled into the middle.
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| sesame miso buns |
In order to get as much miso taste into the dough as possible I just replaced all of the salt with the salt in the miso. This specific miso had 800mg of sodium per serving(16g), so I was able to calculate from that how much miso would make for the necessary amount of salt. If you use a miso with more, or less, salt you will have to change the numbers accordingly.
Sesame Miso Buns
Yields: A baker's dozen
Time to complete: 3 hours
Ingredients
Preferment:
None
Soaker:
None
Final Dough:
478g Bread Flour
7g Instant Yeast
16g Honey
76g Shiro Miso
38g Malt Powder
34g Vegetable Oil
252g Water
7g Instant Yeast
16g Honey
76g Shiro Miso
38g Malt Powder
34g Vegetable Oil
252g Water
Procedure:
- Whisk the miso paste into the water.
- Mix all of the dry ingredients together and finally add the miso/water.
- Mix for 5 minutes in a stand mixer on low. It will be a little longer by hand, as well also more difficult, because it is a very slack dough which will want to gum up on your fingers.
- Form the dough into a ball and cover for an hour and a half.
- Divide the dough into 66g portions for a medium sized dinner roll.
- Roll these into a ball and roll the top half in sesame seeds. Let rise, covered, for 45 minutes to an hour.
- Bake at 325F for 20 minutes, remove and let cool.
Again, I think this would also be good if you rolled some azuki bean paste into the middle and cooked them in a steamer rather than the oven. I'll leave that experiment up to you.
What to Do With This Bread
Serving as a dinner roll with a meaty meal of Asian flavors would make sense. Serving them steamed as mentioned above could even make them an appetizer all their own. Maybe even a mini banh mi sandwich for snacks.
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