eggless sweet bun recipe/tea buns/dinner rolls
Ingredients
- All purpose flour /maida - 1 cup/125 gms
- Salt a pinch
- Sugar for dough - 2 tbsp
- Milk and water equal - 1 cup(for adding to dough and yeast activation)
- Milk powder - 1 tbsp
- Butter - 13/4 tbsp for greasing too from this itself
- Some maida for dusting
- Some sesame seeds to sprinkle
For yeast mix:
- Active dry yeast - 5 gms
- Sugar - 2 tsp
- Half the milk water mixture warm
Instructions
- First activate yeast by taking half of the milk water mixture(warm) to it add yeast and sugar.
- Stir in well till it dissolves,cover and keep in a warm place.
- It may take 10 minutes to rise.
- In-between set the other ingredients ready.
- In a bowl add maida,milkpowder,salt and sugar.
- Mix it well.
- When yeast is well risen add this to the maida mix.
- Stir in with a spoon.
- Then add in the remaining milk water mixture as needed.
- Now use your hands to mix,it will form a very sticky dough.
- Dust some maida to work area and keep on stretching the dough for minimum 10 minutes.
- Finally smooth dough will form though sticky(moisture will be absorbed to a certain extend).
- Grease a bowl with butter put this dough and close with a damp cloth.
- Leave it for 1-11/2 hours or till it rises.
- When it is rised take out in a work surface and punch the air out(again dust some flour if you want).
- Add butter to this dough.
- Stretch and pull for 5 minutes.
- It will become a smooth dough.
- In-between line the suitable baking tray with aluminum foil or parchment.
- Make smooth balls and arrange with large gaps.
- Close with a damp cloth and leave it for the second rise(1/2 hour or more).
- After rising brush it with butter or milk.
- Spread some sesame seeds over the buns.
- Preheat oven at 185 degrees centigrade for ten minutes.
- Bake this in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes or bake depending upon your oven nature.
- For me it took 12 minutes.
Notes
Proofing the yeast is the very important level and if the yeast does not proof then you are making a mistake some where.
Either yeast may be out of date or you have not used warm water.
If the liquid is too hot then yeast will not rise.When you dip in your finger in the liquid finger should be able to sustain the heat.
Sugar is added along with yeast as yeast will feed on it and rise.
Dough may be sticky but don't care knead well and this will only give a super soft buns.
Don't skip milk-powder it gives extra taste to buns.
As it is sweet bun I have added sugar to flour itself.
Don't use-milk alone use mixture of milk and water in equal quantity.
Either yeast may be out of date or you have not used warm water.
If the liquid is too hot then yeast will not rise.When you dip in your finger in the liquid finger should be able to sustain the heat.
Sugar is added along with yeast as yeast will feed on it and rise.
Dough may be sticky but don't care knead well and this will only give a super soft buns.
Don't skip milk-powder it gives extra taste to buns.
As it is sweet bun I have added sugar to flour itself.
Don't use-milk alone use mixture of milk and water in equal quantity.