Lentil Buns

I like to take long time to make bread.
I knead bread in the morning, shap in the evenig, bake at night.  That's my one of weekend.

I got colorful bean, Lentil. I boiled too much for soup....
So I tried to put them to my bread!!

It is easy to cooking. Usually beans need to soak before cook, but lentil don't need, just boil for 15-20minutes.
Lentil contains lots of protaein, fiber zand vitamin V.

This bread, crust is crispy, crumb is chewy. I took long time for proofing to make it tasty.

Lentil Buns
Sourdough starter
50g High Grade Flour
50g Water
A pinch of instant yeast

250g High Grade Flour
10g  Honey
4g Salt
145g Water (lukewarm)
All of Sour dough starter

Lentil 60g (cooked)

1.Day before, make Sourdough starter. Combine all the ingredients, then leave it for 12hours in the room temperature.

2. In a bowl, dessolve sourdough, honey and lukewarm water.


3. In another large bowl, combine flours, salt, mixture of yeast and warter. Mix with your finger combine the ingredients till water and flour combined well. Don't knead too much at this stage.

4. Put the bowl with cover into the warm place (35℃) till it becomes double size (about 8-12 hours ). On the way, after 3 hours, fold the dough.

5. Pour the dough onto floured counter, then deflate it, knead briefly.

6. Spread the dough with a roll pin, sprincle Lintil on the dough. Roll it wit care not to put air in.

Seal the edge of the dough with your finger tightly. Cut it into 6.

7.Place it into warm place with spray water, rise it for 2hours.

8.Preheat the oven at 250℃
9. Spray water and sprinkle flour, bake them at 230C dor 20-25minutes, till becomes well brown.

Fail Croissant

I m trying, trying, trying to make Croissant.
It is really difficult!!!

Croissant.....it is a kind of bread, the yeast dough is layered with butter.

So it takes lots of work and time! And you have to take care about temperature to handle the butter,proofing at low temperature gradually.

I put on just photos of my croissant.

The crumb does't layer. It might be not enough fold and resting the dough.

Crust looks OK, taste is OK.

This one, outside crumb is layered, but inside is not.

I put the dough scrap inside the roll. That' s why crumb doesn't layer???

I ll try another recipe..

Croissant!!!!!

Quiche Bread

Meeeeery Christmas, everyone!!!

I made Quiche with bread today.
I had Christmas BBQ at my friend' s place.

Usually, Quiche is made with pastry. But I got planty of bread left over befor my holiday!!
It is easy to make. Just mix all the ingredients, and bake it!!
Ingredients quantity depends on how big is bread.
 Just make sure, Egg liquid have to be 1 : 1 = Eggs : cream and milk.
That is ideal for sunday brunch, lunch, appetizer.
Use seasonal or favorite vegetable!!

Quiche Bread

1 Loaf of Bread (Any kinds, your favorite)

Filling
Onion (finely chopped)
Spanich(chopped, boiled, drained)
Beacon(chopped)
1 table of oil

Salt
Pepper
1 Cube of Chicken soup stock

2 Eggs (beaten)
50g Fresh Cream
50g Milk

30g Cheese (grated)

Preheat oven at 180C.
1. Stire bacon, onion and spinach with oil.  Flavor with salt and pepper. Cool it down.
2. Meanwhile, cut off the top of the bread. Big out bread crumb.

3. In a large bowl, combine eggs, cream and milk. Add cooled down veges and chicken soup stock in the bowl, and mix well.
4. Pour it into bread. Sprinkle grated cheese.  Bake it at 180C for 30- 40 minutes till egg cooked.

5. Cool it down on a wire rack. Cut into slices. Enjoy it!!

Stained Glass Cookies

Are you ready for Christmas??
I m having second summer Christmas in my life in New Zealand.

That Cookies are very attractive for Christmas ornaments. Looks beautiful and pretty!!
It is easy to make. You need cookie dough and candies. That's it.


Stained Glass Cookies

Cookies;
220g Plain Flour
1/4 tea spoon of Baking Powder 
125g unsalted Butter (room temperature)
80g Sugar
1 Egg yolk
1 tea spoon of Vanila extract

Candy (your favorite coler)

1. Crash the candy with rolling pin
2. Shift flour and baking powder in a bowl together.
3. In the bowl with a hand mixer, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  

4. Beat in the egg yolk and vanila extract.
5. Gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and beat just until incorporated. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
6. Divide the dough in half, and wrap each half in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least two hours or overnight.
7. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of about 5mm. Use your favorite shape cutter to cut out the cookies. With an offset spatula lift the cut out cookies onto the baking sheet.  If you are hanging the cookies or using as gift tags, make a hole at the top of the cookies with a straw or end of a wooden skewer.

8.Preheat oven 180C.  Cut out middle of the dough with smaller cutters.

9. Bake cookies about 8  minutes. Take the baking tray out, put the crashed candies into the hole of cookies.
10. Put it back to the oven, bake it at 170C for 3-4 minutes till candies melt.
11. cookies cool completely. Loosen them carefully and peel them off the baking sheets.
Dont remove cookies before cool down!!!

Honey Bagel

Hi, everyone.

I like making Bagels. But I haven't write Bagel recipe yet.
There are so many kinds of Bagels all over the world!! I wonder what kind of Bagel shall I make every time!
Babels keeps longer than other type of bread, because they contains less water. 
When you knead the dough, it is really stiff!! You can add extra water if you cant knead.

This is Sweet Bagel - Honey Bagel

Honey, it is popular product of New Zealand. If you came to New Zealand, you should buy honey as a souvenir.

Honey Bagel (make 5) 
200g High grade flour
20g Wholemeal flour
2g  Salt
50g Sour dough
3g Instant yeast
30g Honey (If you like sweeter, put some more)
120g Water (lukewarm)

1-2 Table spoon of Sugar

1.  In a bowl, dissolve sourdough, yeast, honey in lukewarm water.

2. In another large bowl, combine flours, salt, mixture of yeast and water. Mix with your finger combine the ingredients till water and flour combined well.

3. Place the dough onto the floured counter, then knead it for 10minutes till it becomes smooth and uniform.

4. Put the bowl with cover into the warm place (35℃) till it becomes double size (about 1-1.5 hours )

5.  Pour the dough onto floured counter, then deflate it, knead briefly. Divide into 5 (80g), make them balls roughly.
Rest them for 15 minutes. 
Meanwhile, prepare boiling water with 1 - 2 table spoon of sugar in a large sauce pan.
Sugar makes them brown and golden surface.

6. Shaping.
A) Make 20cm sticks. 
B) Press an edge of the dough with a rolling pin.
C) Make  a round shape. Put some water on the pressed edge, joint the edges each other.
D) Overturn the dough. Cover the edge with the pressed one, seal it tightly.
 

7. Boiling - put them into boiling water with low heat, upside and backside  for 30 seconds each. Place them onto a wire lack to dry up roughly for 1minutes.

 
8.Preheat oven at 210C. 

10. Bake them immediately at 200C for 15 - 20 minutes or till color becomes golden brown.

I had it with cream cheese, strawberry jam, blue cheese and honey!!!

Blue Cheese and Walnuts Bread

Since I came to New Zealand, I have been trying cheese.  In Japan, there is not much kind of cheese and quite expensive. I eat cheese and bread everyday now!!
I was surprised there are so many kinds of cheese here!! Blue, Brie, Gouda, Edam, Feta, Cottage....made from cow milk, goat milk.....lots, lots, lots of cheese to choose!!





This bread, you dont need to knead the dough. Use a spatula to make it like this.

You can see the holes in the crumb. To make holes in the crumb, you dont knead too much!!

This Bread is savory type. It match as an appetizerwith wine. It also can be gairlic bread.

Blue Cheese & Walnuts Bread

Sourdough starter 100g
(50g White flour, 50cc Water, Pinch of Yeast)
Day before, make Sourdough starter. Combine all the ingredients, then leave it for 12hours in the room temperature.

260g High  grade flour
40g Wholemeal flour
2,5g Instant Yeast
5g Salt
3g Malt powder
180g Water (warm)

80g Blue Cheese (cut into small pieces)
100g Walnuts (chopped)

1. In a bowl, dessolve yeast in lukewarm water.

2, In another large bowl, combine flours, salt, malt powdere, sourdough starter, mixture of yeast and warter. Mix with a supatula roughly combine the ingredients till water and flour combined well.
3. Put the bowl with cover into the warm place (35℃) till it becomes double size (about 1.5 - 2 hours ).

Then put flour on your hands and counter, deflat the dough to air out.
4. Transfer back the dough into the bowl, place it with cover into warm place till it become double size (about 1-1.5hour)
5.  Pour the dough onto floured counter, then deflate it, knead briefly. Shape it a big rough ball.. Set the dough with cover for 20 minutes
6. Spread the dough with a roll pin, sprincle blue cheese and walnuts on the dough. Fold it up  with 3 layers.
Push the edge of the dough with your finger tightly.

Roll it on the counter roughly to make it nice shape.
7. Place it into warm place with spray water, rise it for 40 minutes. Preheat the oven at 230℃

8. Score lines on the dough with sharp knife. Spray water.
9. Put the dough into the oven with steam for 10 minutes at 220℃. Then bake it at 180℃ for 20 minutes

Avocado Cheese Cake

Avocado...that s amazing a fruit!!! 
So, it is a kind of fruit. Why not we cant make cake with Avocado!!

Avocado and Cream cheese, what a nice combination!
Green filling and Black bottom. Color is nice, too.
 To make beautiful green cake, you need to choose a really nice Green avocado. Otherwise, it becomes yellow cake like my cake!!

Avocado Cheese Cake (18cm round cake)

Bottom
150g Oreo cookies
 (Leave 2 or 3 pieces for decoretion)
40g Butter (Melted)

Filling
250g Cream cheese(Softend)
70g Sugar
50g Sour cream
1 Egg(Beaten)
1 Table spoon of Plain flour
1 Ripe Avocado
1 Table spoon of Lemon juice

Icing sugar for decoretion

Bottom
 1. Crush the oreo cookies(leave 2 or 3 pieces for decoretion) with a rolling pin. Combine cookies and melted butter. Press it into an oiled 18cm round cake tin. (I pressed with a glass) Place into fredge while preparing filling.

Filling
2. Preheat the oven at 180c.
Cream cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Add Sour cream, mix until well combined.
3. Gradually add and mix egg into cream cheese mixture. mix until well combined.
4. Add plan flour as sifting, mix untill well combined.

5. Combine lemon juice with avocado and stir until smooth. Put this into cream cheese mixture and mix until well combined.
6. Pour the filling into Oreo crust bottom.
7.Bake it at 170c for 40-50 minutes.
8. Cool it down.

Decoretion
9. Frost icing sugar. Break oreo cookies raughly, decorete onto the cake.