Chili Anchovies Buns (Gelatinized Dough)

I am still in the midst of packing up my stuff for the big move, 80% of my stuff is in the boxes and my kitchen is close to "empty" :) Looking at the bare and neat kitchen, suddenly I have a taught of wanting my kitchen to be always in this kind of minimalist stage. Is like clearing all the clutter out of my soul and wanting to live a more healtier life by eating less sugar, salt, and excersice more. Haha... lossing 2 kg for me seems mission impossible (btw, I'm not really "fat" but wanting to reduce from 52kg to 50kg) just wonder how some can do it within a short period.

This bread was make months ago, I improvised my leftover pulut panggang filling by adding some anchovies to make chili anchovies bun filling. The bun tastes lovely with the grated coconut in it. Hope you don't mind seeing my old recipe again :)

Ingredients for making gelatinized dough

100g bread flour
70g boiling water

Steps:

1. Add the boiling water into flour, mix until well blended to form dough. Cover and set aside to cool. Keep it into refrigerator for at least 12 hours.

Ingredients for filling:

3 tbsp Woh Hup sambal shrimp paste

100g anchovies

1 tsp sugar

3 tbsp oil

100g pulut panggang filling (ingredients B and C)

Steps:

1. Add oil and anchovies, fry until anchovies is crispy. Add sambal shrimp, sugar. Add the 100g pulut panggang filling. Add a bit of water if it is too dry. Stir well, set aside to cool.

Ingredients for bread

300g bread flour

100g plain flour

50g sugar

20g milk powder

175g cold water

9g instant yeast

1 egg

50g butter

Steps:

1. Mix all dry ingredients for bread until well blended. Add water and knead to form rough dough. Add in 100g gelatinized dough and knead until well blended. Add in butter and knead to form elastic dough. Cover and let it proof for 1 hour.

2. Divide the dough into the number of breads you want (for my case, I made 8) Let it rest for 10 mins.

3. Flatten the dough and roll it into round disc, stuff in the filling, wrap up. 

4. Let it proof for 35 mins, glaze with egg.

5. Place in the middle shelve of the oven, bake at 180C for 25 mins. or until brown.