Sausage roll made from sourdough

Here is bread baking for my husband ' s birthday..... Sausage rolls.

This is the Japanese style buns, the sausage stuffed in bread. 

If you heard '' the sausage rolls '' , you might imagine the puff pastry roll stuffed with sausage meat or beef mince. It is common '' sausage roll '' here, in New Zealand as well. 

I added the recipe Japanese style sausage rolls before. 

This recipe is different shaping, the dough is not buttery, no instant dry yeast, made from sourdough. 

Sausage rolls made from sourdough

(make 5)

Sourdough starter

100g bread flour

100g water

Sourdough

200g bread flour

6g salt

100g water

sourdough starter

5 sausage

wholegrain mustard and tomato sauce (optional)

Egg wash

Egg + water

1. Make sourdough. Once the dough become double size, fermented over night, transfer the dough on the floured bench. 

2. Divide it into 5 pieces. Round each piece of dough into rough ball. Cover it to avoid drying out. 

3. Let it rest for 20 - 30 minutes until the dough become loose. 

4.On the floured surface bench top, roll it out with rolling pin, make it sausage long oval shape. 

Put the apply the mustard and tomato sauce if you want. Put the sausage.

Make the cuts with the dough cutter around the sausage. 
(Can see where to cut ? I forgot to take photo of it.  )

Cover the sausage from the top left piece. And the right, left right, left...continue until the end. It looks the braid.

5. Let it rise with the cover for 1 hour or until it becomes bigger size.
6. Preheat oven for 200c.
Brush the egg wash.
Bake it for 20 - 15 minus until it becomes golden brown. 

Bacon Epi

Pain d' Epi bread is known as the wheat stalk shape twisted baguette bread.   

In Japan, we created '' Bacon Epi ''  that is Epi shaped baguette rolled with the slice of bacon.

That is my husband's favorite, he asked me to make it so many times. I was busy for my little baby, I didn't have enough time for baking.
Now he got birthday. I decided to make bacon epi for his birthday present.

I got recipe Bacon onion cheese epi, here.
That is cheesy bacon rolled in buttery dough with instant dry yeast.

This is simple bacon epi recipe, bacon rolled in sourdough. Crispy crust, full of savory bacon flavor in your mouth.

I skip writing how to make sourdough ''dough'' .

Bacon Epi make 4

Sourdough starter

flour 100g 

water 100g 

Sourdough 

flour 200g 

salt 6g 

water 100g 

sourdough starter 

4 slice of Bacon

 (you need cut into smaller if the bacon slice is too long. )

Egg wash 

egg +water or milk

1. Make sourdough. Once the dough became double-sized, fermented over-night, transfer the dough on the floured bench.
2. Divide it into 4 pieces. Round each piece of dough into rough ball by pulling the edge of the center.  Cover it to avoid drying out.
3. Let rest it for 20 - 30 minutes until the dough become loose.

4. On the floured surface, roll it out with the rolling pin. Make it 18 - 20 cm oval shape. (Cut the slice of bacon into smaller if it is bigger than the oval shape.)
Put the bacon on the dough.

Roll it down, seal it tightly. Put sealing side bottom on the baking tray.

5. Place it into warm place (30c) with cover to avoid to drying out.  Rise it for 1 hour until it becomes bigger size.
6. Preheat the oven 200c.
7. Forming it into Epi shape.
Cut the dough on 3/4 with the scissor. Don't cut it off completely.

Slide this piece on left, cut, slide it right, cut, slide it left.... continue to cut and slide until you have reached the end.

8. Brush egg wash, bake it 20 - 25 minutes at 200c until it becomes brown.

Homemade coconut butter

Have you ever heard coconut butter before?

I make my own nuts butter at home such as peanut butter, almond butter and macadamia nut butter....

One day, I found a jar of coconut butter at the organic store. I never seen coconut butter. I was wondering what the different from coconut butter and coconut oil.

I looked up the internet, I searched how to make it.

Coconut oil is 100% oil that has been extracted from coconut meat.

Coconut butter is coconut flesh that has been ground into paste.  It includes all the fat, fiber and nutrients from the coconut.

It seems super easy to coconut butter. It is like peanut butter.
At the organic shop, the jar of coconut butter is $13.
If you make own, you can grab a 200g desiccated coconut for $2 at the supermarket.  That is all ingredient!!!

1. Load the coconut flakes into food processor. Turn the machine on.
2. Using a food processor, this processor will take 8 - 10 mins.  You need to be patience. Stop the machine and scrape the sides down with a spatula a few times. Continue until the coconut has turned to coconut butter and is softened and store it in a jar. 

3. Place it in the cool place. My coconut butter became hard like butter in the room temperature. If you want it soft and creamy, warm it up and melt it.