Taro Swirl Bread
I bought some taro because I was craving the taro bread I used to buy at 99 Ranch Market in Daly City. It was really yummy for breakfast!
I found a nice recipe at Malissa’s Food Blog. She had tried so replicate the 99 Ranch bread, using a Hokkaido bread recipe.
Remember that raw taro is toxic, because it contains calcium oxalate, which is destroyed by cooking.
It took me some time to use them, so they had sprouted.
Taro Paste
1 ½ cups taro, cubed
1 cup water
½ cup sugar
10 drops blue food coloring
6 drops red food coloring
pinch salt
3 tablespoons corn starch
¼ cup water
Steam the taro cubes until tender. Blend the cooked taro and 1/2 water until it becomes a puree. Mix the corn starch with water. Combine it with the taro puree, sugar, food coloring, and salt in a microwaveable bowl and microwave for about 4 minutes, stir after every minute. It will thicken more as it cools.
Hokkaido Bread
540 grams bread flour
60 grams cake flour
10 grams instant yeast
30 grams milk powder
80 grams sugar (3/4 cups)
9 grams salt (1 tsp)
1 large egg
250 grams milk (1 cup)
150 grams heavy cream (1/2 cup)
Heat milk and whipping cream until 100 degrees. Mix in egg. In a large mixing bowl, mix the dry ingredients, then gradually add the wet ingredients. Continue kneading for about 15 minutes. Shape into a ball. Cover and let rise until doubled. Divide the dough into two and shape into balls. Let rest, covered about 15 minutes. Shape into a rectangle about 6 x 12 inches. Spread with the taro paste (recipe below). Roll the dough one section at a time and crease with each rotation. The roll will spread out as you roll and will end up about 8 to 9 inches long or a perfect fit for your loaf pan. Place the rolled dough in a parchment lined loaf pan. Let rise in a warm place until doubled. Bake in a 175ºC oven for approximately 45 minutes. Let it cool down before slicing.
And this is the result. I didn’t have a loaf pan, so I used a cake pan with a whole in the middle. I also was lazy to knead, so the Thermomix made it for me, he, he. The only problem was that I put some food coloring in the bread, and instead of looking purple as I intended, it turned out green, like a martian! It was delicious though. Just the flavor I was going for.
