Green Onion Garlic Butter Bread Loaf
Extremely aromatic fragrant garlic butter with the freshness of green onions housed inside of a soft and fluffy center and a crispy outer edge. This green onion garlic butter bread loaf recipe will be a hit with your family!
Equipment
- 1 stand mixer
Ingredients
Tangzhong
- 75 ml Water
- 15 g Bread Flour
Dough
- 220 g Bread Flour
- 25 g White granulated sugar
- 1/4 tsp Table salt
- 5 g Instant yeast
- 6 g Milk Powder
- 60 ml Milk
- 1 Large Egg
- 25 g Unsalted butter
Garlic Butter Filling
- 50 g Unsalted butter
- 5-6 cloves Garlic (peeled)
- 1/4 tsp Table salt
- 3-4 stalks Green onions
Egg wash
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp Milk
Instructions
- In a small sauce pan, add in your bread flour and water. Heat the pan on low heat while constantly stirring it until the mixture turns into a thick gelatinous paste.
- Then remove the pan from the stove and transfer it to a small bowl or dish. Cover it with plastic wrap and then store in the fridge and let it cool down for at least 30 minutes before using.
- In another large mixing bowl, add in your bread flour, sugar, salt, instant yeast, milk powder, egg, and the cooled down Tangzhong from earlier.
- Put the mixing bowl inside of your stand mixer, and give it a few whisks, then slowly add in your milk while the stand mixer is running.
- Let it continue to knead the dough for 3-4 minutes then add in your room temperature unsalted butter.
- Then continue mixing everything for an additional 9-10 minutes until it is nice and smooth.
- You can check and see if the dough has been sufficiently kneaded by grabbing a small piece of it and stretching it out until you can see light passing through it and it looks somewhat translucent.
- If it doesn't tear then it has been sufficiently kneaded.
- Now add a little bit of oil to a large bowl, then transfer the dough over.
- Apply a little bit of oil to your hands and then shape the dough into a round ball. The oil helps prevent the dough from sticking to our hands.
- Next, cover the bowl with some plastic wrap or a towel and let it proof until double in size in a warm environment such as your oven for approximately an hour. You can add a bowl of hot water to the oven to help raise the temperature.
- Now while our dough is proofing, let’s make our garlic butter spread. To start, mince 5-6 cloves of garlic.
- Next, grab 3-4 green onion stalks and cut them into small pieces and set it aside for now.
- In a bowl, add in your room temperature butter and the minced garlic along with a ¼ tsp of table salt.
- Mix everything well together and then set it aside.
- Now after our dough has finished proofing, we’re going to transfer it to a floured working surface.
- Roughly shape the dough into a round ball and then roll the dough out into a rectangular shape.
- Then apply the garlic butter spread that we made earlier generously to the dough.
- Next, sprinkle the green onion that we diced earlier all over the dough, saving about 10-15% for later.
- Now start rolling one end of the dough onto the other end.
- Pinch the ends of the dough to seal it including the sides of the dough.
- Now using a dough cutter, make a cut in the middle of the dough, splitting it into half.
- Now fold one piece of the dough over the other piece and then wrap the other piece of top and tuck the ends inside and make a braided pattern.
- Repeat this for the other end of the two pieces of dough.
- Next, place the dough onto a bread loaf pan lined with parchment paper.
- I’m using a 9x5 inch pan here but you can use any bread loaf pan just as long as it fits.
- Now place the dough in a warm environment and let it rise for about 35-40 minutes.
- Once the dough has finished proofing, apply an egg wash onto the dough by mixing together 1 egg and a splash of milk.
- Next, sprinkle in the left-over green onions from earlier.
- Now bake the bread in a pre-heated oven at 350°F (180°C) for about 25-30 minutes until the top is golden brown.