Kei's food and crafts
- Apr 17, 2018
- 4 min read

How to Make Delicious and Easy Japanese Home Recipes at Home

Updated: Sep 11

Curry bread with baking powder

Utensils:

For the dough we need:

Mixing bowl, spatula, scraper, rolling pin

Ingredients:

100g bread flour - ½ cup + 2 tbsp

60g all purpose flour - 1/3 cup +1 tbsp

6g - 2 tsp of baking powder

A pinch of salt

A tbsp of sugar

5g 1-2 tsp of butter (room temperature)

or 1 tbsp of olive oil for vegan

20g of Yogurt

50ml of milk (warm)

or 60ml of soy milk for vegan

50ml of warm water

Mix the dry ingredients together.

separate it half and add in wet ingredients.

slowly add in, do not put everything in at once since this is using a spatula to mix it will be easy in this way.

Once you have form a ball - dough showing the picture - knead until it is smooth and doesn't stick to your hand.

Let it rest in a dark place.

For cooking the curry we need:

Frying pan, spatula and a lid/cover

Ingredients for the curry:

Japanese curry or any curry powder,

onion, carrots, potatoes, meat or bean for Vegan.

Add in milk for Japanese curry or coconut milk for vegan for curry powder

Cook till potatoes is soft.

Once done place it on a plate to let it cool.

Bring our dough out and separate to 6 pieces.

Flatten it and put in your curry.

Seal it well.

Once done with the curry in the dough, bath it with egg and roll it into the bread crumbs.

For vegan you can use water and roll into vegan breadcrumbs

Prepare oil for frying or bake at 200C/390F

Please write to me if you have any questions.

Varieties of bread with yeast

Sakura red beans bread

Sandwich

Curry bread

Presented below are the ingredients for a simple Japanese bread recipe that I have prepared.

Instructions on performing basic kneading techniques.

This recipe serves as a fundamental dough base that I have developed for the majority of my bread recipes.

Use 500 grams of bread flour, or a combination of half bread flour and half all-purpose flour or cake flour.

50gm butter It gives buttery flavor to your bread You can use less or more If you are making focaccia you can replace with olive oil

50gm sugar You can adjust if you are not making toast bread or butter roll you can omit it or reduce it to 20g sugar.

5gm salt Reduce it to 3gm for 200-300gm

50 grams of yogurt is an essential ingredient that provides moisture and a soft texture to your bread.

Substitute 50ml of milk with skim milk due to the unavailability of skim milk powder in my pantry. I typically have milk in my refrigerator, making it a convenient alternative. Kindly warm the milk slightly to 40°C using a microwave at 500W for 30 seconds.

50ml of cream

Please gently heat to 40°C (microwave at 500W for 30 seconds).This process enhances moisture and softness.

Include one medium-sized egg and reserve some for brushing the top of the bread.

For optimal results, use 3-5gm of instant yeast for every 200-300gm of ingredients. Personally, I prefer using approximately 7gm of yeast for every 500gm of ingredients. To activate the yeast, pour around 50ml of warm water over it, stirring until it resembles a muddy consistency. Allow it to rest while you attend to other preparations. (My daughter Miya always enjoys the scent, comparing it to that of natto.)

Once everything is ready like shown here

Mix it well and slowly add water.. you might notice now I didn’t mention water.. I don’t usually measure my water as I slowly add into the mixing - about 50-70ml This is because we have different weather everyday and temperature. Some country might have high humidity Just slowly add in water till you get everything into a dough.

Once finish your kneading you can proof it in your oven for 60 mins 35C If you don’t have such a low temperature you can heat up your oven temp to 180C And off it with the oven door open and leave your dough cover into the oven and a cup of hot water.

Once it doubled size punch the air out And let it rest 15 mins.