Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, hokkaido's famous chikuwa bread. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Round off the dough and rest it for a while. Mix the canned tuna, finely chopped onion and mayonnaise, and season with salt and pepper. Chikuwa Isobeage, perhaps a mouthful to pronounce for non-Japanese speakers, is Tempura Chikuwa (a kind of fishcake) flavored with Aonori (dried seaweed flakes). This deep-fried dish is often a side dish item in commercial Bento, but also a great home-made appetizer that goes well with drinks.

Hokkaido's Famous Chikuwa Bread is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Hokkaido's Famous Chikuwa Bread is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hokkaido's famous chikuwa bread using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Hokkaido's Famous Chikuwa Bread:

1. Take 160 grams Bread (strong) flour
2. Make ready 40 grams Cake flour
3. Prepare 20 grams Sugar
4. Take 3 grams Salt
5. Take 20 grams Butter
6. Make ready 145 grams combined Milk + egg
7. Prepare 3 grams Dry yeast
8. Make ready 8 stick Chikuwa
9. Take 1/2 can Canned tuna
10. Prepare 1/3 small Onion
11. Get 1 Mayonnaise
12. Make ready 1 dash Salt and pepper
13. Make ready 1 dash Aonori and egg wash (for glazing)

Hokkaido Milk Toast (北海道牛奶麵包) was made with tangzhong (roux), most reliable method to make soft and fluffy breads. The bread can be kept for days and still very soft and fluffy. Best of all, the method is very natural, no chemicals needed. Anko, or red bean paste, was already used in Japanese confectionery long before bread became mainstream.

Steps to make Hokkaido's Famous Chikuwa Bread:

1. Make the dough in a bread machine until the 1st rising is done. Round off the dough and rest it for a while.
2. Mix the canned tuna, finely chopped onion and mayonnaise, and season with salt and pepper.
3. Make a cut down one side of the chikuwa, and stuff with the Step 2 mixture.
4. Roll the dough out into a long, thin rope and wrap it around the filled chikuwa. Leave to rise (2nd rising) until it's 1.5 times its original size.
5. After the 2nd rising, brush the tops with egg wash (optional), and squeeze out a line of mayonnaise on top. Mist the bread and bake in a 200°C oven for 10-13 minutes.
6. Sprinkle on some aonori seaweed powder to taste, and they're done.
7. It's also delicious with a little ketchup and mustard.
8. So filling! Chikuwa bread.

Best of all, the method is very natural, no chemicals needed. Anko, or red bean paste, was already used in Japanese confectionery long before bread became mainstream. So, it is no surprise that Japan's first sweet bun was anpan. Red bean paste fills soft, sweet bread to make a tasty, unique Japanese treat. Below we introduce some of Japan's best baked treats.

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