How to Prepare Perfect Sourdough shokupan

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Shokupan is the soft & fluffy authentic Japanese milk bread made by the Yudane method! I usually use LeSaffre Saf-Instant Yeast Gold for making shokupan Japanese milk bread. Japanese bakery Neko Neko Shokupan must definitely agree with that, since they figured they'd elevate simple After all, who can resist a home-made loaf of sourdough, focaccia or… cat-shaped. You can cook Sourdough shokupan using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sourdough shokupan

1. Prepare of Sweet Stiff Starter 90g bread flour.
2. You need 30 g of brown sugar.
3. It's 30 g of starter.
4. You need 40 g of water.
5. It's of Tang zhong.
6. It's 170 g of milk.
7. You need 30 g of bread flour.
8. Prepare of Main dough.
9. It's 610 g of bread flour.
10. Prepare 100 g of sugar.
11. It's 12 g of salt.
12. Prepare 215 g of milk.
13. It's 2 of beaten eggs.
14. Prepare 114 g of butter.

Shokupan is also a great sandwich bread. The square shape is perfect for sandwiches either with or without the crust. At SHOKUPAN we've put a sourdough spin on the beloved Japanese white loaf so that you get all Shokupan means "eating bread" in Japanese. It is characterised as a light and fluffy sandwich bread.

Sourdough shokupan step by step

1. Starter left for 7 to 9 hours till 50% increase.
2. Mix everything together except butter. Knead until a dough ball forms. Then add in butter and knead until window pane. Proof until double which may take 3 to 6 hours.
3. After second proof, deflate and shape into 3 rolled dough for loaf pan or shape into burger buns.
4. If loaf pan, Bake at 120 deg cold. Increase oven heat 10 deg every 10 mins until u reach 180. Bake at 180 for last 10 mins. Unmould after baking to reduce shrinkage. If bake as buns, bake at 180deg for 20 mins.

If you're not familiar with 'Shokupan', it's time to get well-acquainted. Because it's a life-changing loaf of bread. Shokupan is the soft, fluffy white bread you've seen floating around Instagram and in your. My love of shokupan toast is never ending. Probably because shokupan is SO DANG FLUFFY and so adding butter and jam is something childhood cartoon dreams are made of.

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