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Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, melon pan [melon-shaped bun]. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

You can adjust the amount to taste. Melon pan is Japanese sweet bread made to resemble the shape of melon through its crisp cookie crust. It is quite similar to Mexican conchas, Chinese pineapple bun, and Korean soboro bun. This melon bun traditionally does not contain any melon.

Melon Pan [Melon-Shaped Bun] is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Melon Pan [Melon-Shaped Bun] is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have melon pan [melon-shaped bun] using 15 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Melon Pan [Melon-Shaped Bun]:

1. Get Cookie Crust
2. Get 35 g unsalted butter, room temperature
3. Prepare 50 g granulated white sugar
4. Get 30 g lightly beaten egg
5. Make ready 110 g low protein wheat flour/cake flour
6. Take 1/4 tsp pandan paste, can be substituted with 1 tsp matcha powder
7. Get Bread dough
8. Make ready 110 g high protein wheat flour/bread flour
9. Get 40 g low protein wheat flour/cake flour
10. Take 18 g granulated white sugar
11. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
12. Prepare 1 tsp instant yeast
13. Make ready 80 ml milk, warm to 40-50°C or follow your yeast product instruction
14. Make ready 20 g lightly beaten egg
15. Take 14 g unsalted butter, room temperature

It was originally made to resemble the shape of a melon. Newer recipes nowadays do incorporate melon, but here I am. There are some Melon Pans that include chocolate chips, cocoa powder, or even matcha, and some bakeries put custard (cream) inside the bun. In recent years, a lot of bakeries started to add real pureed melon or melon syrup (from either real melon or the green melon syrup we use for shaved ice) in the dough to add "melon" flavors or color.

Instructions to make Melon Pan [Melon-Shaped Bun]:

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2. Cookie dough: In a medium bowl, whisk butter until creamy. Then whisk in sugar until thoroughly combined.
3. Add egg and whisk until well-blended.
4. Switch to a silicone spatula and mix in flour until almost combined. Then add pandan and mix thoroughly.
5. Transfer onto a cling wrap. Wrap and refrigerate until firm.
6. Bread dough: In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt, and yeast. Make a well on its center.
7. Pour milk and egg into the center. Using a wooden spoon, stir the dry mixture into the wet mixture until all dry is absorbed.
8. Transfer dough onto work surface and start kneading with your hands for about 1 minute. Then wrap butter into the dough.
9. Continue kneading. It will be messy and oily. But the more we knead, the less sticky it becomes. Add a little flour onto the work surface and the dough if it is easier for you to knead.
10. After 10-15 minutes of kneading, the dough will become smooth, elastic and not sticky. Transfer into a bowl. Cover the bowl with a cling wrap. Let it ferment for about 1 hour or until double in size.
11. Meanwhile, divide cookie dough evenly into 10 balls. Refrigerate again with a cover.
12. After bread dough has doubled in size, release the gas inside by pressing it down. Transfer onto work surface and divide evenly into 10 balls. Cover them with a cling wrap to prevent drying out.
13. Press a chilled cookie ball between two pieces of parchment paper to a thickness of about ¼-inch. You can use a dough scraper or anything with a flat side to press.
14. Take one bread dough and roll again to release any gas. Remove the top parchment paper from the cookie dough. Then place the dough ball onto the center.
15. Flip over so the cookie dough is facing up and remove the second parchment paper. Gently press to wrap all sides of dough ball with the cookie dough. The bottom part of dough ball can be left unwrapped.
16. Dip the ball into a bowl of granulated sugar (2 tbsp) to coat the cookie dough. Then use a dough scraper or knife to gently score criss-cross or any pattern onto the cookie.
17. Place on a baking sheet and cover with a cling wrap. Repeat with the rest. Let them sit and rise until one and a half times bigger.
18. Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F or 200°C for 12 to 15 minutes.

There are some Melon Pans that include chocolate chips, cocoa powder, or even matcha, and some bakeries put custard (cream) inside the bun. In recent years, a lot of bakeries started to add real pureed melon or melon syrup (from either real melon or the green melon syrup we use for shaved ice) in the dough to add "melon" flavors or color. In Japan, Sagoyan made a new sweet bun with the shape of cantaloupe melon, combining two types of dough and called it melonpan (melon bread in French) or sunrise-pan (sunrise bread). It was immediately adopted by Japanese, and still remains widely popular and soon became a national brand. Melonpan is also widespread in Taiwan, China and Latin.

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