Description
Light, soft buns that will hold up to a good sausage and all the condiments you could throw at it.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2/3 cup warm water (156 mL)
- 1 and 1/2 tsp instant yeast
- 1 Tablespoon honey (21 g)
- 1 and 1/2 Tablespoons olive oil (23 mL)
- 1 large egg
- 2 and 1/4 cups bread flour (293 g)
Finishing the buns
- 1 large egg white
- 2 Tablespoons seeds of choice: poppy seeds, sesame seeds or everything bagel seasoning
Instructions
- Mix all the dough ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer.
- Use a wooden spoon or your mixer’s dough hook to rough mix all the ingredients to make a shaggy dough.
- Mix with a dough hook in a stand mixer on low speed for about 5-7 minutes until the dough forms a ball around the hook.
- Form the dough into a ball, then place the dough in a clean bowl sprayed with cooking spray. Cover with plastic wrap until it’s doubled in size, about 1 hour.
- Divide the proofed dough into 8 pieces on a lightly floured work surface. If you want to be super precise, divide the balls into 68 g pieces with the help of a gram scale.
- Pat each piece into a little rectangle that is about 5″ wide.
- Roll up the dough onto itself along the 5″ edge. Pinch the bottom seam well to seal the dough together.
- Set the buns close together on a parchment lined baking sheet in a 2×4 pattern, then flatten them slightly.
- Cover the buns to rest for about 30 minutes. They’re ready to bake when the buns look puffy and edges are noticeably close together.
- Towards the end of the resting time, preheat the oven to 350F (180 F).
- Beat up the egg white, then glaze the buns with the egg white using a pastry brush. Scatter on your seeds of choice all over the glazed buns.
- Bake the buns for about 20 minutes when they should be golden brown and the dough springs back when you touch it.
- Let the buns cool at least 20 minutes before slicing them.
- Buns are best eaten the day they are made, though you can freeze them in an airtight plastic bag for up to 2 months.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Additional Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Breads
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bun
- Calories: 125
- Sugar: 3
- Sodium: 123
- Fat: 5
- Saturated Fat: 1
- Unsaturated Fat: 3
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 17
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 5
- Cholesterol: 47