Japanese Milk Bread (super fluffy and airy)

Updated at: Mon, 06 May 2024 22:31:40 GMT

Step 1

In a small bowl, add warm water, warm milk and dry yeast powder to mix until the yeast is fully dissolved, sit aside for a few minutes.

Step 2

In a large bowl, mix in bread flour (Japanese Nisshin Bread Flour is preferred), salt, sugar, melted butter, dry yeast mixture, egg batter (only use half of it, save the other half for later), stir with a spatula and mix well until the dough gets sticky and doughy.

Step 3

Transfer the sticky dough onto a working counter/baking mat, continue to knead the dough and smack dough against baking mat for several minutes until the dough gets smooth and elastic, sit in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap, rest until the size of dough gets 2.5-3 times bigger, which might take 1.5 hours or so.

Step 4

Uncover plastic wrap and transfer dough onto a working counter/baking mat again, knead for a couple of minutes trying to make it into a big round dough. Shape the dough into 4 even sized balls.

Step 5

Flatten each ball into a 5" x 8" rectangle with rolling pin (use loose bread flour to dust as needed if it gets too sticky), then fold the short ends in towards one another like a letter. Flatten this folded piece into rectangles again, repeat and fold the short ends in towards one another, starting with a folded short end, roll them up like a coiled snake into a 4" log. Make sure connecting coiled end is well attached and closed.

Step 6

Grease loaf pan with cooking oil and paper towel (or use oil spray), transfer all 4 coiled logs inside the loaf pan in a row (seam side down and side by side), cover with plastic wrap and allow it to rest/rise for at least 1 hour (the loaf should roughly be at the same level as the loaf pan when fully risen).

Step 7

Towards the end of the rising time, heat up oven to 350°F, brush the loaf with a thin layer of egg batter leftover from before. Bake it in the oven for roughly 25-30 minutes at 350°F ( you may cover the loaf with a piece of tinfoil about half way through the cooking time to get a lighter coloring on the loaf).

Step 8

Remove loaf from the oven and cool it in the pan until you can safely transfer to a rack to cool completely.

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