Green Tea Raisin Loaf

I have always loved anything that has green tea in it. Be it ice cream, bread or chocolates, i love them all! Most of the time though, when we eat green tea ice cream or green tea loaves, we can hardly taste the flavour of the green tea as it is mainly made from colouring and artificial flavours. So naturally, I decided to try my hands on this favourite ingredient of mine.. with real green tea powder!  Today, I am going to share with you how to make a green tea loaf with raisins in between (You can alternatively use red bean paste instead of raisins). It is absolutely delicious and have made this many times for my family. Everyone around me has been asking for the recipe so I decided to put it up on my blog. Cheers! :)

Ingredients:

140 g milk

1 egg

25 g caster sugar

1 tsp yeast

40 g butter

280 g bread flour

2 tsp green tea powder

½ tsp salt

Raisins

Method:

	Cover	Time	Temp°C	Speed
1)  Place all ingredients except raisins in TM bowl	Yes	10 sec	-	3-6
2)  Knead the mixture	Yes	5 mins	-	Knead
3)  Place dough on a pastry mat and knead manually into a tight ball and wrap it up tightly.	-	Let it grow till double in size	-	-
4)  Roll dough out into a rectangle shape, length to be the same as length of your loaf tin.  Lightly oil and flour the loaf tin.	-	-	-	-
5)  Spread the raisin over the rectangular dough and roll up dough tightly, pinch the edge to seal. Place it in loaf tin with edge facing down.	-	Cover loaf tin and let dough rise for about 1 hour	-	-
6)  Place it in cold oven to bake for total of 35 mins		30 mins w/ cover, last 5 mins w/o cover	180 deg