The Cheesy Garlic Butter Green Onion Bread looks very pretty just like a flower; it can be a good gift for relatives and friends. Besides the look it is one of the most delicious bread; it is both sweet and slightly salty, with the flavour coming from the garlic butter, green onion and cheese. Besides using a round pan to shape it like a flower, we can shape it into a loaf.
Ingredients:
Dough
- 325 g bread flour
- 30 g sugar
- 7 g yeast
- 1 egg
- 7 g salt
- 1 egg
- 160 g milk
- 50 g butter
Filling
- 25 g green onions
- 30 g butter
- 15 g garlic
Method:
- Put all the ingredients into the bowl of a stand mixer.
- Knead till a smooth dough ball is formed.
- Add butter to the bowl.
- Continue to knead till window pane is achieved.
- Transfer the dough to a greased clean bowl. Cover the bowl with a moist towel.
- Let the dough proof till it is double in size.
- While waiting for the dough to proof, prepare the fillings:
- cut the green onions into 0.5 cm length,
- chop the garlic,
- mix the green onions and garlic with butter,
- set the fillings aside.
- Once the dough has doubled in size, transfer it onto a counter top.
- Punch out the air from the dough.
- Knead the dough back into a round ball.
- Divide the dough into 16 pieces. Roll each piece into a dough ball.
- Flatten each piece into a flat round dough.
- Put a teaspoon of filling in the centre.
- Bring the bottom half of the dough to almost the top of the flat dough (like a semi-circle).
- Bring both sides of the semi-circle together. Pinch them together to seal them.
- Place the dough into the centre of a greased 8-inch round pan. (I use a pan with removable base.) (Work from the centre outwards.)
- Repeat this till all the dough balls have been used up.
- Cover the pan with a moist towel.
- Let the dough proof till double in size.
- Once the dough has doubled in size, apply egg wash to the dough.
- Bake the dough in a pre-heated oven at 175 deg C for 18-20 min or till the buns are golden brown.
- When the buns are done remove them immediately onto a wire rack to be cooled down.
Or
- If you want to bake the dough into a loaf, after the 1st proof, punch down the dough to let out the air.
- Roll out the dough into a rectangle.
- Spread the fillings onto the dough.
- Cut up the dough into small rectangles to fit an 8 inch x 4 inch loaf pan.
- Stack the rectangular dough on top of each other.
- Transfer the stack into the loaf pan vertically.
- Cover the pan with a moist towel.
- Let the dough proof till double in size.
- Once the dough has doubled in size, apply egg wash to the dough.
- Bake the dough in a pre-heated oven at 175 deg C for 18-20 min or till the loaf is golden brown.
- When the loaf is baked remove it immediately onto a wire rack for it to cool down.
- Note: If you want a cheesy bread, just sprinkle grated cheese on top of the dough just before you bake or you may add the grated cheese to the filling.