Heavy Weight

Tofu Bread

Tofu bread may have created such a stir last year in Japan. I just didn’t know about it until recently - All the ingredients go into the bread maker and push the rapid bake button – sounds super easy, right? I let my husband do the work since he is a King of Bread.

Although this bread is very moist, it is also unexcitingly heavy.  I guess all the water content of tofu makes it bloated? It was an interesting recipe...I neither love or hate this weak flavor. Yes! Definitely it needs more punches or an upper cut, or maybe just a bit of a jab. My husband  thinks this recipe requires a bit of training and he’s positive it could throw a knock out punch in the next round. Whatever honey, but is this worth fighting for?

Ingredients and how-to for 1 loaf of bread (my husband doubled the recipe because Japanese bread maker is smaller)

Necessary Equipment – bread maker, food scale 

• Butter, margarine or olive oil 25g

• Milk 80cc
• Tofu (soft type 絹ごし) 150g
• Salt 3g
• Sugar 30g
• Bread flour 250g
• Dry yeast 3g

1. Put ingredients in bread maker in the order written ( our bread maker does not have a built-in yeast dispenser, to protect the yeast from touching the liquids and salt right away, the yeast should be put in last) and choose the Rapid-Bake course. Note: Rapid-Bake makes bread with a trendy (in Japan) pale color and soft crust but it’s optional.
   

 

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