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All-match Zhong Zhong dough ensures you can make soft and delicate pineapple buns

All-match Zhong Zhong dough ensures you can make soft and delicate pineapple buns

All-match Zhong Zhong dough ensures you can make soft and delicate pineapple buns. There are many things to do on weekends, and it is difficult to have the time to make bread elegantly with the Chinese method. It coincides with the small holiday, and I decided to use it to make long-lost pineapple buns.

Prep Time

Servings

4 people
Prep Time

Prep Time

2 hrs
Cook Time

Cook Time

12 mins
Ingredients

Ingredients

6
Total Time
Total Time
2 hs 12 mins
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Category
Bread

Equipment

Dough mixer

Shape cutter

Mixing tank

Ingredients

🍞 Zhong Zhong dough

175 g high-gluten flour

10 g granulated sugar

2 g yeast

22 g egg yolk

80 g cold water

🍞 Main Dough

75 g high-gluten flour

35 g granulated sugar

4 g salt

10 g milk powder

10 g unsalted butter

40~50 g cold water

🥧 Pineapple Peel

45 g unsalted butter

40 g granulated sugar

25 g whole egg liquid

8 g milk powder

90 g low-gluten flour

Instructions

👩🏻🏫 Let’s briefly introduce Zhongzhong first. The middle seed method is also called the second fermentation method. The raw materials need to be divided into the middle seed dough and the main dough. The middle seed dough is fermented for the first time. fermented, and finally baked.

Classification: ordinary seeding method (70% seeding method), refrigerated seeding method and 100% seeding method. The Zhong Zhong seeding method is to mix 70% of the flour and yeast in the material to make a seed dough, and carry out the first fermentation at room temperature.

Advantages:

1. The bread texture is soft and delicate, the taste is very soft, and it is not easy to age and dry the next day.

2. The dough will produce a unique fermented aroma, and the bread will have a fuller taste.

3. Shorten the mixing time of the overall dough

Cons: Long overall production time

🍞 Zhong Zhong dough

175 g high-gluten flour

10 g granulated sugar

2 g yeast

22 g egg yolk

80 g cold water

🍞 Main Dough

75 g high-gluten flour

35 g granulated sugar

4 g salt

10 g milk powder

10 g unsalted butter

40~50 g cold water

🥧 Pineapple Peel

45 g unsalted butter

40 g granulated sugar

25 g whole egg liquid

8 g milk powder

90 g low-gluten flour

👩🏻🍳Basic steps:

1. Add the medium dough material into the mixing tank, mix at low speed for 5 minutes until it forms a dough, and ferment for 2 hours at about 28 degrees

2. While waiting for fermentation, make pineapple peels, and put them in the refrigerator to refrigerate

3. After the fermentation is complete, cut the medium dough into 3~4 pieces, add all the ingredients of the main dough into the mixing tank (reserve 10g of water, decide whether to add it according to the dough condition), mix at low speed for about 4 minutes, and mix at medium speed for about 10 minutes, and finally stir at high speed for 3 minutes until the glove film can be pulled out.

4. Roll the dough into a round shape, put it into the fermentation pot and continue to ferment for 30 minutes.

5. Divide the dough into 8 parts, roll into balls, cover the table with a cloth, and let it rest for 15 minutes

6. Shaping and stuffing: Flatten and push the pineapple skin to cover the dough completely, and use a scraper to cut a lattice pattern on the pineapple skin.

7. Put it in the oven for secondary fermentation for 30-45 minutes

8. Preheat the oven at 190 degrees and bake for 12 minutes, until the sides of the bread are colored and the top is golden

❤️Tips: This dough is a versatile dough that can be used with different fillings to make Asian-style breads of various flavors. Friends can give full play to create or reproduce all kinds of delicious breads.

making the dough
ingredients in getting the dough ready
Brushing on the extra layers
Pineapple buns lining up
Freshly made pineapple bun
take a bite out of it
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