Melonpan (メロンパン)
Melonpan, which many Japanese people (including Dorami-chan, Doraemon’s sister) love, is bread covered with cookie dough. Don’t get confused: melonpan was named after melons, but we cannot find any melons in the recipe. “Melon-looking-bread” - that’s the Melonpan!
Ingredients
[Bread dough]
- 250 g of bread flour
- 2 g of dried yeast
- 1/2 of beaten egg
- 60 cc of water
- 75 g of milk
- 25 g of sugar
- 4 g of salt
- 25 g of butter
[cookie dough]
- 200 g of all-purpose flour
- 60 g of sugar
- 1/2 of beaten egg
- 100 g of butter
- 1 tbsp of grated yuzu peel (otherwise lemon peel)
Instruction
- [Prepation of bread dough] In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Add sugar, bread flour, and salt.
- Turn onto a table; knead until smooth and elastic.
- Add some butter and knead for more a few minutes. Place the dough in a bowl, cover, and rise in a warm place until doubled.
Before adding butter 
- [Preparation of cookie dough] In a bowl, put softened butter and stir until the texture becomes creamy. Add sugar and mix it. Then add the beaten egg and grated yuzu. And mix it well.
- Add all-purpose flour and mix it until it gathers together. Turn onto a table and knead its texture becomes smooth. Then wrap with a wrapping film and put it in a fridge for about 30 minutes.
- Punch the bread dough down and divide the bread dough into eight parts. Cover divided dough with a wrapping film; leave them for 10 minutes.
- Divide the cookie dough into eight parts. Round divided bread dough into a sphere.
- Roll out the cookie dough to make a flat circle. Then take one divided bread dough and cover with the cookie dough.
- Put lines to make mesh pattern like a melon.
- Cover the shaped dough with a wrapping film. And leave it at room temperature for about 60 minutes.
- Pre-heat an oven at 190 °C (374 °F) and bake for about 16 minutes.
- Now your melonpan is ready. いただきます!
