I like baking a lot that I used to do it professionally. However now that my livelihood now not relies on getting up at 4 a.m. to make kilos of brioche, it’s exhausting to seek out the motivation to construct my schedule round tending to a yeasty dough blob within the tight quarters of my galley kitchen. Nonetheless, a life devoid of recent baked bread sounds just like the worst method to exist, so acquainting myself with store-bought canned biscuit dough has been a current lesson in scrumptious compromise. To not point out it has impressed me to attempt recreating my old flame: the sausage-ppang.
What’s sausage-ppang?
For these not acquainted, sausage-ppang (direct translation: sausage bread) is a meat-studded, veggie/mayo/cheese-dotted handheld deal with that may be a staple at Paris Baguette, Tous Les Jours, and different Korean Euro-Asian bakeries and serves as a beautiful snack or meal. It’s mainly a sizzling canine all glowed up.
The origins of sausage-ppang are exhausting to pinpoint, however as a culinary historical past nerd, I believe it was conceived someday throughout the American occupation of Korea within the Nineteen Forties. The occupation spurred the recognition of processed meals like sausage and cheese partly as a result of complete, genuine meals had been extremely scarce all through this era.
Bread dough for sausage-ppang is usually handmade, however I rapidly realized that store-bought biscuit dough can proffer the identical fluffy crust with one pop of a canister. Plus, it aligns properly with the entire different components in a conventional sausage-ppang, which are usually premade and processed anyhow.
Why air fryer sausage-ppang is greatest
The common-or-garden Korean bakery bun is fast to bake within the oven, however even faster within the high-powered biosphere we all know because the air fryer. Batch-baking is greatest, as a result of it gives you loads of room to mess around. You’ll be able to prep and bake all six sausage breads on the spot (in three batches of two) to serve a hungry crowd. Alternatively, bake all of them and freeze the uneaten breads for later; they freeze fantastically and are available again to life in a flash—within the air fryer, in fact.
If batch prep sounds overwhelming, you’re greater than welcome to maintain the separate parts—dough, sausage, veggie topping—within the fridge for a number of days and pull them to assemble a smaller batch of sausage-ppang à la minute each time the starvation pangs strike.
Let this recipe be just right for you, not the opposite means round.
I nonetheless love baking in my oven, I do! However to anybody who thinks there are few issues higher than heat bread recent from the oven, simply wait till you bake some within the air fryer.
Air Fryer Sausage-Ppang
Makes 6 servings
For the veggie topping:
- ½ inexperienced bell pepper, finely diced
- ½ massive onion, finely diced
- ¾ cup canned corn, drained
- 3 Tbsp. Kewpie mayo
- ½ cup shredded low-moisture mozzarella
- ½ tsp. kosher salt
- ¼ tsp. floor black pepper
For the sausage bread:
- 1 (8-count) can biscuit dough
- 1 (6-count) package deal sausage franks of alternative (I like turkey)
- Dried parsley
- Ketchup, for garnish
In a medium bowl, add bell pepper, onion, corn, Kewpie mayo, and mozzarella cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Combine to completely mix. Cowl and hold within the fridge whilst you form the sausage bread.
On a clear countertop or slicing board, roll or stretch out a bit of biscuit dough into an oval measuring about 7 inches lengthy and 4 inches large. Place a sausage frank within the heart. Fold the smaller prime and backside flaps over every tip of the sausage. Now working from the longer facet, fold the dough flaps in order that they meet on the heart of the sausage. Pinch them collectively to completely seal the sausage in dough. Flip the sausage over and gently roll a pair instances to easy out the dough seams.
Utilizing kitchen scissors, make eight incisions at a 45-degree angle. This lower ought to undergo the highest layer of dough, and all over the new canine contained in the dough, however not lower by means of the underside layer of dough, which ought to keep intact.
Place the sliced sausage long-ways in your work floor, and begin by pulling the top piece straight south and downward towards you in order that the “coin” of meat is flat in opposition to the countertop. (It’s going to keep linked to the remainder of the sausage by way of the underside layer of dough.)
Then, fastidiously pull and twist every following sausage coin in alternating left and proper motions. The formed dough ought to appear like an oak leaf studded with sausage cash. Don’t fear if it appears to be like a bit tough; if any cash tear off fully, simply tuck its doughy border again into the formed bread. It’s going to all meld again collectively while you bake! Right here’s a video of the method.
After forming the breads, unfold the veggie topping (about 1 heaping tablespoon) down the middle of every one. End with a number of gentle shakes of dried parsley.
Line the air fryer basket with aluminum foil, ensuring to go away a few 1″ border of unfoiled area on all sides to make sure correct air circulate. Preheat to 325 levels Fahrenheit. Give the foil a lightweight coating of nonstick cooking spray. Use a spatula to fastidiously switch two breads into the lined, preheated basket, leaving a few 1″ hole between every one.
Bake bread for 15 minutes, or till the tops catch a deep golden brown. Take away from the air fryer utilizing the sides of the foil or by fishing out every slice with a spatula. Garnish the tops with ketchup in a zig-zagged drizzle. Repeat with remaining bread. Let cool barely earlier than serving.
Recipe notes:
- Veggie topping might be saved within the fridge in an hermetic container for as much as one week.
- Opened package deal of unbaked biscuit dough might be saved within the fridge in an hermetic storage bag for one week. After making this recipe, you should have two biscuits leftover. Eat these for breakfast with butter and jam!
- Wrapped in foil and sealed in an hermetic storage bag, absolutely baked sausage bread slices might be saved within the freezer indefinitely. To reheat from frozen, air fry at 350 levels for five minutes.
