Hamburger buns - general principles of cooking
If your children do not recognize any other food other than fast food, do not rush to blame them. Let's be frank - hamburgers are really very tasty, and junk fast food is considered to be more likely due to a lot of fatty french fries and sweet soda. But how to make hamburgers such that they can not be distinguished from food from “McDonald’s” or “Burger-kings”? In fact, one of the main secrets in buns. They are special and can not be bought anywhere, except to cook themselves.
Hamburger buns - preparing food and dishes
The advantage of such buns is that they can be used not only for burgers, but also to replace bread with first and second courses, or even to eat with tea or milk. Unlike traditional baking, such rolls are less calorie, as they almost do not contain sugar. But in any case, do not “lean” on baking, even if it is hamburger buns - flour is not useful for the figure.
The dough for such buns should not be thick - this is the first secret of proper baking. At the same time, too much batter will not allow the buns to be the desired shape. Follow these recipes, and flour products you will get.
Recipes for hamburger buns:
Recipe 1: Hamburger Buns
Buns can be made both on water, and on milk or on fermented milk products. In this recipe, we use purified or, even better, mineral water for cooking.
Ingredients Required:
- Flour 2.5 glasses
- Sugar 1 tablespoon
- Purified water 250 ml
- Dry yeast 1/2 pack (a teaspoon without a hill)
- Chicken Egg 1 piece
- Salt
- Vegetable oil
- Sesame
Cooking Method:
- Heat some milk on the stove, up to a maximum of forty degrees.
- Mix half the flour with yeast, sugar and salt. Pour milk into this mixture and begin to mix. At this stage, it is best to use a spatula.
- Gradually pour the remaining flour into the mixture and knead with the hands. The correct dough practically does not stick to hands and it seems very easy.
- A lump of dough is oiled with vegetable oil and put for an hour in a warm place.
- When the dough rises, sculpt the cakes of the future buns from it.
- We lubricate the deck with oil and put buns on it. We put the deck in the oven for 10 minutes, setting the temperature to 180 degrees.
- Beat the egg with a mixer with a pinch of salt.
- After 10 minutes, take out the hamburger buns (they should have risen), grease them with egg and sprinkle them with sesame. After that, send the buns for another 15 minutes in the oven.
- Finished products should be removed from the deck, sprinkled with warm water and covered with a towel.
Recipe 2: Hamburger Buns
Cooked for this recipe buns will be snow-white from the inside, with a golden and crispy crust. McDonald's hamburger buns are made according to this recipe.
Ingredients Required:
- Flour 2.5 glasses
- Milk 1 cup (2.5% or 3.2%)
- Chicken Egg 1 piece
- Dry yeast 1 teaspoon no slide (1/2 sachet)
- Sugar 2 tablespoons
- Salt
- Sesame
- Vegetable oil
Preparation Method:
- Mix half of the flour with dry ingredients - salt, sugar and yeast in a deep bowl.
- Heat the milk and pour it over the flour. If the milk is too hot, then the yeast will not give the desired effect. The most optimal temperature is 35-40 degrees.
- Knead the dough, gradually adding the remaining flour. Put it in a warm place for 50-60 minutes to reach.
- Form round buns from the dough.
- On the deck, oiled, lay out the buns, and send for 10 minutes to bake at a temperature of 180 degrees.
- Mix the egg with a pinch of salt. Remove the buns from the oven, brush with egg and sprinkle with sesame. Put them back in the oven for another 10 minutes.
Recipe 3: Hamburger buns (without yeast)
Can I make buns for burgers without yeast? Of course! To such flat cakes are more accustomed in America, we also love a lush baking with yeast. But such buns, if you serve them with steak and sauce, your home will appreciate.
Ingredients Required:
- Flour 2.5 glasses
- Kefir 2.5% 300 ml
- Sugar 1 tablespoon
- Baking powder for the test 10 grams
- Salt
- Chicken Egg 1 piece
- Vegetable oil
- Sesame
Preparation Method:
- The dough for buns without yeast is prepared very easily and quickly, and the finished baking will be already 25 minutes after the start of cooking. Important! Observe all proportions from this recipe. To begin with, sift flour into deep dishes, add a pinch of salt, sugar, baking powder.
- Mix the kefir with the egg white (until the yolk is set aside) and pour this mixture into the flour. Stir with your hands, turning the mixture into a dough.
- From the dough, mold round or oval cakes.
- Put buns on a buttered wooden board and send them for 10 minutes to the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees.
- Mix the yolk with a tablespoon of water and a pinch of sugar. After 10 minutes, remove the buns, brush with egg mixture, sprinkle with sesame, and again send in the oven - for 8-12 minutes.
Hamburger buns - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- Try using rye flour for muffins instead of regular flour. Also, experiments with the addition of buckwheat flour or bran to white flour will be successful.
- It is not necessary to sprinkle hamburger buns with sesame. To make baking more unusual, use flaxseed, ground milk thistle or black sesame.
- Add sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds to the dough.
