Melonpan (メロンパン)

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Melonpan, which many Japanese people (including Dorami-chan, Doraemon's sister) love, is bread covered with cookie dough. Don't get confused: melonpan was named after melons, but we cannot find any melons in the recipe. "Melon-looking-bread" ­- that's the Melonpan!

Ingredients

[Bread dough]

• 250 g of bread flour
• 2 g of dried yeast
• 1/2 of beaten egg
• 60 cc of water
• 75 g of milk
• 25 g of sugar
• 4 g of salt
• 25 g of butter

[cookie dough]

• 200 g of all-purpose flour
• 60 g of sugar
• 1/2 of beaten egg
• 100 g of butter
• 1 tablespoon of grated yuzu peel (otherwise lemon peel)

Instruction

1. [Prepare bread dough] In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Add sugar, bread flour, and salt.
   
   
   
2. Turn onto a table; knead until smooth and elastic.
   
3. Add some butter and knead for more a few minutes. Place the dough in a bowl, cover, and rise in a warm place until doubled.

   

   Before adding butter
   

   

4. [Prepare cookie dough] In a bowl, put softened butter and stir until the texture becomes creamy. Add sugar and mix it. Then add the beaten egg and grated yuzu. And mix it well.
5. Add all-purpose flour and mix it until it gathers together. Turn onto a table and knead its texture becomes smooth. Then wrap with a wrapping film and put it in a fridge for about 30 minutes.
   
6. Punch the bread dough down and divide the bread dough into eight parts. Cover divided dough with a wrapping film; leave them for 10 minutes.
   
7. Divide the cookie dough into eight parts. Round divided bread dough into a sphere.
   
8. Roll out the cookie dough to make a flat circle. Then take one divided bread dough and cover with the cookie dough.
   
9. Put lines to make mesh pattern like a melon.
   
10. Cover the shaped dough with a wrapping film. And leave it at room temperature for about 60 minutes.
    
11. Pre-heat an oven at 190 °C (374 °F) and bake for about 16 minutes.
12. Now your melonpan is ready. いただきます!

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