Burger Buns Recipe | Best Eggless Hamburger Buns | Super Soft Bakery Style Breads

Ingredients:

For Roux Flour: 1 1/2 tbsp

Water: 6 tbsp

For Dough

Maida (Plain Flour): 2cups + 5 tbsp

Milk powder: 3 tbsp

Sugar: 3 tbsp

Salt: ½ tsp

Instant dry yeast: 2 tsp

Water (approx.) ½ cup + 2 tbsp

Butter: cubed ¼ cup

Milk and butter for wash

Method:

• In a pan heating up, add 1 and 1/2 tbsp. of maida (plain flour) along with 6 tbsp. of water. Mix it up using a whisk. Cook it on a slow flame until the starches gelatinize or until the mix starts leaving the pan. If using a thermometer, cook it until 65 degrees centigrade.

• Transfer the flour mix from the pan to a bowl and cover it well with a cling wrap and keep it aside to cool.

• For the bread dough, take about 300 gm of plain flour (maida). Next add 5 gm of salt, 20 gm of milk powder and sugar about 35 gm. Mix everything together and keep it aside.

• For making the yeast mixture, add about ½ cup of lukewarm water in a vessel along with 5 gm of sugar. Mix the sugar until it dissolves in water. Next, add 2 tsp. of instant yeast and mix it really well with the water. Place it in a warm cosy place for about 10 minutes.

• After 10 minutes, add the risen yeast mixture to the dry flour mixture. Add the roux as well. Knead well using hands until it forms a pat.

• Next, take the dough in to clean platform and knead it for 2-3 minutes. Add water if needed in between but make sure the dough should be smooth and pliable.

• After which add the butter around 30 gm. Knead the fat really well into the dough for about 7-8 minutes.

• Once the dough it ready, place it in a bowl and cover with a cling wrap and let it rise for an hour.

• After 1 hour, knock down the risen dough and take it out from the bowl into a platform and sprinkle in some flour about ½ tsp. and knead it for about a minute.

• Now, divide the ready dough into 5 or 6 portions and smooth the dough using your hands. Shape it a little oval so that it rises a little higher. Place the dough balls into a baking tray and cover it with a damp muslin cloth and let it proof for another hour.

• Give a milk wash to the risen dough balls. Sprinkle some sesame seeds on top.

• Bake the buns for about 15 minutes at 200 degrees.

• Apply some melted butter to the baked burger buns and cover the burger buns with a damp cloth until they cool down. Use your burger buns for burgers or just have it with some butter! 