Homemade buns

I love myself some buns, plain buns, portuguese rolls, cheese buns... but the ones from the shop is pure air... it is not filling. These buns, however, is super delicious and very, very filling indeed. 

These buns are perfect with real butter, as simple and as plain as that. For me, that is food fit for a king. Or a queen...

Ingredients

3½ cups flour

1t salt

¼ cup sugar

2tbs instant yeast

1 cups warm water

⅓ cup oil

1 egg

Method

1. Preheat the oven at 200 Celsius.

2. Check the instructions on the yeast you use. I use the yeast that should be added directly to the flour, not be bloomed first

3. Mix the water, oil and egg and beat well. 

4. Mix the flour, yeast, sugar and salt.

5. Combine the wet and dry ingredients and mix into a stiff ball.

6. Knead the dough for a minimum of 7 minutes - NOT NEGOTIABLE!

7. Cover with a wet cloth and let it rise for min 30 min, until double in size.

8. Knead down, and form into equal balls. Best is to weigh the dough and divide by the number of buns you want to make, so as to make the balls equal in size. This makes baking it better and more uniform.  

9. Cover and let it rise for another 30 minutes.

10. You can brush the buns with egg wash prior to baking, this will help with the browning.

11. After 30min, put the buns into the oven and bake for 10min, until golden.

Optional: Sprinkle with sesame seeds after brushing with egg wash.

Enjoy with butter, cheese, syrup. Or use for homemade hamburgers. 

Yours in oil and veggies,

Risch

For a printable PDF version of the recipe, click here: Homemade Buns PDF