I seriously don’t know why it took me so long to start making bread.
Now that I have made bread, I can totally understand the addiction – I see so many of my cooking/baking friends get hooked and now they are producing gorgeous loaves of bread at home.
I must admit that no matter how much I enjoy the process of (mindless) kneading, I would not be making bread often without a breadmaker. I believe that the breadmaker is one of the most important inventions of modern times.
Without a doubt, I love the Panasonic SD-P104 Breadmaker. It is, in my opinion, one of the best breadmakers you can currently get in the market.
The breadmaker is compact – the slim design means that little (precious) space is taken up in the kitchen. It also has many functions , which means you can make not only many types of bread, but also pizza dough, cakes and dumpling skin dough. You can even make jams with this nifty little machine!
Today I am sharing with you a recipe for Pandan Bread Loaf, which goes fabulously with the Home-made Kaya I learnt to make at the Panasonic Cooking Workshop I attended a couple of weeks ago.
I am telling you, this is seriously good bread. It is soft, it is totally fragrant and it contains absolutely no preservatives!
And here are the instructions on how to make this bread.
Start by blending together the pandan leaves – I cut them into small pieces – with the milk.
Once blended, if you have used cold milk, set this aside for about 20 – 25 minutes. Otherwise proceed to the next step.
Pour this mixture into the bowl of the breadmaker. Add coconut milk and condensed milk.
Add the remaining ingredients (wet first then followed by the dry ingredients) and place the bowl into the breadmaker.
Add the yeast into the yeast compartment. This Panasonic breadmaker comes with an additional compartment in which you place the yeast as well as any other ingredients you are adding to the bread. The machine will dispense the yeast and ingredients at the appropriate times so the kneading of the dough does not get affected in any way.
Very clever!
If there is no yeast compartment in your breadmaker, poke a hole in the flour and pour the yeast into the flour.
Press Menu 9 for dough, then press START.
An hour later, the dough is ready.
Take the bowl out of the breadmaker and turn the dough onto a lightly floured pastry mat. Punch the dough to remove the air.
Cut the dough into two equal pieces.
Pull and tuck the dough to form two balls.
Place them on a lightly oiled dish. Cover with a damp towel and let the dough rise for 15 minutes in a warm place.
After 15 minutes, use a rolling pin to roll each ball of dough into a rough rectangle.
Roll the dough into a log.
Place the dough back onto the dish and let it rise for another 15 minutes, covered with a damp towel.
Roll the dough again, stretching it into a long (rough) rectangle.
Roll it up into a log again and place in a 20x10x10 cm baking tray.
Spray with a little water then place in a warm oven to proof for 50 minutes. I turn on the oven at 50°C for one minute, then turn off the oven and placed the dough inside the oven.
At the end of this time, the dough would have risen to almost the rim of the baking tray. Preheat the oven to 170°C. Gently brush the bread with the remaining 1 tablespoon milk.
Bake the bread for 50 minutes, If the top gets too brown, place a piece of aluminium foil over the bread and continue baking.
Once the bread is baked, remove it from the baking tray and invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Then all you have to do is to cut into the bread and enjoy this totally soft and fragrant bread with some home made kaya!
- 90g fresh milk
- 10g pandan leaves
- 50g coconut milk
- 20g condensed milk
- 30g caster sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 25g egg, lightly beaten
- 30g unsalted butter
- 225g bread flour
- 25g top/cake flour - I used cake flour
- 3/4 tsp instant dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon milk
- Start by blending together the pandan leaves – I cut them into small pieces – with the milk.
- Once blended, if you have used cold milk, set this aside for about 20 – 25 minutes. Otherwise proceed to the next step.
- Pour this mixture into the bowl of the breadmaker. Add coconut milk and condensed milk.
- Add the remaining ingredients (wet first then followed by the dry ingredients) and place the bowl into the breadmaker.
- Add the yeast into the yeast compartment. If there is no yeast compartment in your breadmaker, poke a hole in the flour and pour the yeast into the flour.
- Press Menu 9 for dough, then press START. An hour later, the dough is ready.
- Take the bowl out of the breadmaker and turn the dough onto a lightly floured pastry mat. Punch the dough to remove the air.
- Cut the dough into two equal pieces.
- Pull and tuck the dough to form two balls.
- Place them on a lightly oiled dish. Cover with a damp towel and let the dough rise for 15 minutes in a warm place.
- After 15 minutes, use a rolling pin to roll each ball of dough into a rough rectangle.
- Roll the dough into a log.
- Place the dough back onto the dish and let it rise for another 15 minutes, covered with a damp towel.
- Roll the dough again, stretching it into a long (rough) rectangle.
- Roll it up into a log again and place in a 20x10x10 cm baking tray.
- Spray with a little water then place in a warm oven to proof for 50 minutes. I turn on the oven at 50°C for one minute, then turn off the oven and place the dough inside the oven.
- At the end of this time, the dough would have risen to almost the rim of the baking tray. Preheat the oven to 170°C. Gently brush the bread with a little milk.
- Bake the bread for 50 minutes, If the top gets too brown, place a piece of aluminium foil over the bread and continue baking.
- Once the bread is baked, remove it from the baking tray and invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.
The Panasonic SD-P104 Breadmaker is available for sale at:
Best Denki Ngee Ann, Junction 8, Katong, Court Mega Store, Harvey Norman, Isetan, CK Tangs and Takashimaya.
The retail price is at $329 and above store mentions are subject to stock availability.
Panasonic Singapore
Official Website
Official Facebook Page
Note: This review was written in conjunction to my participation for the Best Cooking Blog in Singapore Blog Awards 2015. This is not a sponsored post. All opinions are my own.
Hi Diana,
Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe. My children and I love pandan bread and I am thinking of giving it a try this weekend.
The only issue is, I usually have many errands to run on weekends as I’m moving house. So I’m wondering if I can just let the bread machine to do all the work?
Hi Vanessa yes you can make the bread in the BM from beginning to end 🙂
Hello Diane,
Thanks for the confirmation!
Just one last question, for the salt and yeast, I don’t have a proper baking teaspoon. Can you let me know their respective weights please?
Thank you.
Hi you can do the conversions here http://www.convertunits.com/from/teaspoons/to/grams
Thank you!
hi,
i actually using kenwood breadmaker.unfortunatelly i search a lot n can x find a pandan bread recipe based on the machine.i wonder how can i apply ur recipe into that machine,…..
yes you can. Just use the dough kneading function.
Hi Diana,
Wonderful site you have here. I am seriously considering buying this model and your post comes as an informative guide to me. Just to make sure of one thing though. Does this machine make jam as well? I have read somewhere that it doesn’t have this function compared to other models. Appreciate your output on this. Cheers!
Christine.
Hi Christine yes it can be used to make jam. It is done under the “Cake”” function (yeah I know, lol) You can see a post about this here: http://thedomesticgoddesswannabe.com/2015/07/home-made-kaya/
Thanks. Making an order as we speak. Lol. Panasonic ought to reward you for your convincing post. 🙂
Hi,
I’m interested in getting the SDP104 but I couldn’t find any info about the capacity of the bread maker; like what is the max loaf size?
Thanks.
Hi there the capacity is 700g.
Hi,
May i know when u said the capacity is 700g. Does it means i can use a bread recipe which requires 600g of bread flour? I am thinking to use this BM to knead the dough.
Appreciate your reply. TQVM.
In theory it should be ok. I usually use about 450-500g
thank you so much for your reply 🙂
Dear Diana, yesterday I baked the whole meal honey bread and today I tried the pandan bread loaf , both were done without the bread machine. They turned out do well. Thank you very much.
Awesome Katherine! 🙂
HI
COULD WE USE ANY RECIPE IN THID BREAD MAKER.
MY HUBBY JUST GIFTED ME ONE . I AM STILL JITTERY ON USING THE SAME.
I TRIED A FEW BREADS. DIDNT FLUFF UP SO WELL …THOUGH I FOLLOWED RULES TO THE T…!
PLS GUIDE.
Yes you can use any recipe that makes the quantity of bread your BM can hold. Good luck!
Hi. May i know which mode should i select to bake this bread in Panasonic BM from start to end?
Hi Cheryl I think it should be the basic mode.
Hi Diana,
I love each and every post of yours in this site. Your post had inspired me to get a bread maker. I’m living in Melbourne and the model here is totally different. The model I bought is sd2501. They do have option for dough which take about 2hrs 20 mins. Looking at your recipe the duration using a bread maker is like 1 hr. Can I remove the dough after the first knead process for this recipe. Pls kindly advise.
Hi Kolika I am so glad you invested in a BM!!! What you want to look for is for the dough to have at least doubled its size. I am not sure how long that will take, especially since the weather in Melbourne is vastly different from that here. Just keep checking!!
Hi, so happy to find your blog because I’m using the same bm as you!! 😀
But I’m wondering why the bm manual mention to put dry ingredients first follow by wet but I notice you do the opposite way. May i know any specific reason?
Thanks.
Hi Sylvia I know exactly what you mean. I also read the manual then I proceeded to ignore that and bake as I have always baked – wet ingredients first. Many bakers also do that – I am guessing it is because it is easier for the BM to mix the ingredients? I am guessing here. Perhaps there really is no difference at the end of the day 🙂
Hi! Would really need some help here. I just received this Panasonic Breadmaker as a gift and begun using it. Its amazing and i love it. However i realised that it makes a loud sound in the middle of the process. It sounds about 3 times consecutively then stops. I tried both the basic and soft bread function and same thing happens. I cant figure out what that sound means. Initially i thought its cos of the raisin dispenser but the same sound happens even when the raisin drop function is switched “off”. Does this happen to yours too? lm terrified that i have done something to spoil it as its my first time using a breadmaker. Haha. Hopefully you can kindly shed some light upon this.
Hi Becca unfortunately I also have no idea why your BM is making that noise – both of mine never did. I suggest you give Panasonic a call? Maybe they have to take a look at your machine. Cheers, Diana.
Oh! Thanks Diana. I will definitely give them a call soonest! 🙂
Hi,
Thanks for the recipe.
Can you please advise if we were to use this recipe in the Panasonic BM, from start to end, which mode should I be using? The soft bread mode?
Thanks
Carolyn
Hi Carolyn yes I think it should be that.
Hi,
I am thinking to use this recipe using Panasonic BM frm starts till the end, but I understand that the bread needs to be removed out from the pan immediately once done. Anyone have experience leaving the ready bread in the pan for sometime instead of removing it out immediately? Reason being that I prefer to pour all ingredients into BM and only attend to the bread the next morning.
Kelly
Why not use the timer so it starts baking some time in the night and the bread will be ready for the morning?
Hi Diana
I am thinking of getting this machine. May I know how long does it knead the dough using dough mode? Does it knead well such that the dough reaches window pane after kneading is over?
My current bm is a pretty old german model, it kneads for only 16min under dough mode and as the dough doesnt pass the window pane, I need to restart the dough mode again. However the machine will announce it is too hot to restart and I gotta wait another 20min+ for it to cool enough for me to restart kneading.. Very troublesome hahaha
Does panasonic does this?
Thx
Cecilia
Hi Diana, yesterday, I have baked a Pandan Bread using your recipe. I am using Philips BM. The bread is soft and yummy. I am very happy with my first attempt.
I would like to clarify on 2 ingredients.
Milk 90g and Pandan leaf 10g
After blending both together, what should be the correct total liquid? Or it does not matter at all?
Thank you.
Joni Lian
Hi Joni I have replied in the PM 🙂
Hello, may I know is it OK to use Pau flour instead of bread flour? Does it make any different? Thanks in advance
Pau flour is low-protein. It won’t work.
I thought i followed the recipe, but my dough was very watery. not sure what I did wrong.
Did you measure correctly?
Hi I had always love your recipes and the picture illustration. May I ask if I were to omit the coconut milk and condensed milk what other liquids could I replace with?
Thanks ina advance. (: