Yudane is a Japanese bread improver. It is made by scalding a portion of the flour in a recipe with boiling water. This method gelatinizes the starch which then makes the crumb of the bread soft and fluffy and makes it stay softer for longer. This is not my first ‘Japanese’ style burger bun recipe. One of my most viewed and popular recipes which I made when I first started off on YouTube was a Japanese milk bun recipe. But I mistakenly made the dough with another bread improver called Tangzhong, which is in fact a Chinese style bread improver. So, this recipe is here to fix my past mistakes.

Unlike Tangzhong which is a roux made of milk and liquid that is then cooked in a pan until thickened, Yudane is made by simply mixing flour and boiling water at a 50/50 ratio and leaving it to sit for several hours. I left mine in the fridge to cool down completely.

There are other recipes that use a similar method called scalding. Flour and other ingredients are mixed with boiling water and the mix is kept at a steady temperature for several hours to gelatinize the starch. It is the same principle, but yudane takes less time. Perhaps a yudane could also be kept at a steady higher temperature to gelatinize the starch even more.
But it works just fine the way I demonstrate in this recipe without spending too much time.

I use the stretch & fold method for kneading this dough. Not because of the hydration (which is not high), but because the dough is quite sticky. This kneading method makes it easy to knead.

You will get 4 large burger buns from the given ingredients. To make more simply multiply the amounts. You can also shape this into a loaf and bake it in a tin to make a super soft sandwich loaf.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:37 Ingredients & equipment
0:56 Making the yudane
1:22 Mixing the dough
3:57 Bulk fermentation
4:13 Dividing, pre-shaping & resting
5:17 Final shaping
5:57 Final proofing & baking
7:18 The result
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