Shio Pan (Salt Bread) – The New York Times

This is shio pan, also known as salt bread, a super popular bread in Japan and Korea. And this is a soft, buttery roll like no other. It has a light, fluffy interior with that golden, thin, crackling crust and buttery base. Rather than laminating butter into each individual dough, we’re actually going to make a block and then just roll that up inside. This is what makes the shio pan, the salt bread, so special. You can use flaky salt, pretzel salt, rock salt, whatever you have. This is going to bring amazing balance to those buttery rolls, while baking with steam will give you that deep golden color and crackle on the top and the base.