Tang Zhong Bread Recipe

How do you elevate your bread or bun to new levels of pillow-y softness? The answer: Tanzhong Bun — the quick and easy recipe to softer, more tender buns. You’d end up ditching your average buns for this Asian bun.

Tanzhong Buns are so squishy someone could mistake them as a squishy toy (though, we only recommend them for eating hehe) Enjoy!

Tanzhong Bun

Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 50 minutes mins

Ingredients

Tanzhong Starter

• 43 g Water
• 43 g Milk
• 14 g Flour

Bread

• 298 g Flour
• 14 g Milk Powder
• 50 g Sugar
• 2 g Salt
• 1 tbsp Yeast
• 113 g Milk
• 1 nos Egg
• 57 g Butter melted

Instructions

• Combine all of the ingredients and whisk it on a small heat until thickens and turn off the heat.
• In a bowl, add flour, Yeast sugar, salt, melted butter, egg, milk powder and give it a couple of mixing.
• Add the first mixture.
• Knead for 15 minutes by hand or 8 minutes by stand mixer with hook attachment on.
• Let it rise for about an hour
• Once it risen, divide it into 6 equal pieces.
• Roll the piece into a rectangle and gently roll it into a ball.
• Do the same for the remaining pieces and put it into baking pan
• Let it rest for 45 minutes and egg wash it.
• Bake in the oven in 180�c oven for 30 minutes or golden brown

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