Homemade buns
Homemade buns taste great with butter and jam and even with curry.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 5 cups flour 2.5 cup plain flour and 2.5 cup wholewheat flour
- ¼ cup flax seeds with 250 ml/1cup warm water
- 5 teaspoon yeast in 1 cup water +1 teaspoon sugar
- ½ cup oil
- ¾ cup water to knead the dough
- 2.5 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Mix the flax seed meal with 1 cup water and keep it aside.
- Add sugar to lukewarm water, mix until it dissolves. Add yeast to sugar water, so that it activates. This will make the mix frothy and activate in 15 minutes.
- Add this yeast and flax seed mix to the flour with salt.
- Start mixing the dough while adding the remaining water.The dough needs to be a little wet and sticky, this will help the buns to rise and come out with a soft texture.
- Knead the dough, this will be sticky at the start, Add oil to remaining ingredients. Keep it aside for 30 minutes to rise.
- Once it has doubled, punch it down and knead it again.
- Divide the flour in 9/16 equal portions, give them a round shape using oiled hands,and arrange them in an oiled baking tray with some space in between the buns.
- Let it rest for 30 minutes. You will see the dough rise and sides might touch each other.
- Preheat the oven at 180 degrees(fan forced) for 10 minutes.
- Bake the buns for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees. Check the readiness, by knocking on the top of the buns, if they sound hollow then they are ready.
- Take out the tray and brush the buns with butter/oil.
- Let is rest for an hour so that it cools down.
- Serve fresh with butter /fruit preserve/jam.
Notes
To make sure that the buns are super soft, the dough needs to be sticky and a little wet.
You may replace wholewheat flour with plain flour , in that case,use 3 cups of plain flour instead of 2.5 cups of wholewheat flour.