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      Title: Crunchy Balloon Bread (Gonggal-ppang) 
 Categories: Breads, Snacks
      Yield: 4 Loaves

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    1/3 c  Water
      1 ts Sugar
      1 ts Dry yeast
      1 pn Salt
      2 tb Oil
      1 c  A-P flour
      1 ts Black sesame seeds
           - (optional)
      1 tb Flour; up to 2 tb,
           - for dusting

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      3 tb Brown sugar
      1 ts Toasted sesame seeds
      1 ts Ground cinnamon

  Make the filling by mixing the sugar, sesame seeds, and cinnamon
  powder in a bowl. Set aside.

  Start the dough by combining water, sugar, dry yeast, salt, and
  vegetable oil in a bowl. Mix well with a wooden spoon.

  Add the flour and mix it well with the wooden spoon.

  Knead the dough by hand for about 2 minutes, until it's smooth. Let
  it sit for 1 hour.

  Uncover the dough and knead it another minute until it's very
  smooth and soft.

  Divide the dough into 4 equal size balls. Roll each into a nice
  smooth ball on the cutting board.

  Cover the 4 balls with plastic wrap to prevent them from getting
  dried out while you work.

  Put a non-stick baking pan into the oven and heat the broiler.

  Sprinkle some flour on the cutting board. Take one ball and roll it
  out with a rolling pin into a 4" disk. Add 1/4 of the filling in
  the center.

  Lift up the right and left edges of the disc, bring them together,
  and pinch and seal them together. Then bring the top and bottom
  edges together too, to make a kind of dumpling.

  Gently flatten and roll the disc out with your rolling pin, little
  by little, so as not to break it. Sprinkle some flour as needed so
  the dough, cutting board, and rolling pin don't stick together.

  Turn it over and roll it out carefully into a 5-1/2 to 6" disk.

  Repeat with the rest of the dough balls.

  Your oven and the pan inside will be very hot. Change the oven
  setting from broil to bake.

  Put each bread disk on the heated pan in the oven. Set the oven
  temperature to 350°F/175°C and bake it for 15 minutes. Check out
  the color and crunchiness of the bread. 

  If you want it darker and crispier, bake them for 1 minute more.

  Let them cool down a bit and serve and eat. You can also freeze
  them up to 1 month.

  Recipe FROM: https://www.maangchi.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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