What is wrong with the supermarket buns? They are packed with chemicals and additives. If you can find a bun made of only flour, yeast, egg, butter, milk… I will stop baking hamburger buns right away! But I’m still searching.

Ingredients | 5 buns

• 400g /14oz Bread flour
• 40g /1.4oz Butter
• 40g /1.4oz Milk
• 1 Egg
• 130g /4.5oz Water
• 4g /0.14oz fresh Yeast or a pinch of dried yeast
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 20g /0.7oz Whole Wheat Flour (optional)

Preparation

– Dissolve yeast in water

– In a small pan melt butter and add 50g of flour. mix for a minute on low heat, to have a doughy texture.

– In a big bowl, mix the dry ingredients: flour and salt.

– Add the wet ingredients: mixture of water & yeast, butter and flour, milk, and egg.

– Knead till we have a soft dough.

– Cover the dough with a foil and proof for ⏳ 6 hours.

– Knead the dough on a working board.

– Make 5 small balls and proof for second time: for ⏳ 2 hours.

– Preheat the oven on 190C°/375F°.

– Egg wash the dough balls surface twice, with a ⏳ 10 minutes interval.

– After the last egg wash add the topping of your choice:

• Poppy seed
• Sesame
• Sunflower

♨️ Bake in the oven for ⏳ 20-25 minutes.

– Set the grill program for the last ⏳ 3-4 mins to have a brownish color on the buns surface.

When they cool down they can be stored in the fridge for 1 week or 2-3 months in freezer

Making of burger:

– Mix the minced beef with salt, onion powder, and black pepper.

– Make hamburger disks: for each person 150g/5.2oz of meat.

– Grill each side on medium high heat for ⏳3-4 minutes and they are done.

Notes

• Bake the hamburger buns days in advance, I store them in freezer and warm them up for serving hamburgers.
• The slice of meat for the roast-beefs is perfect for hamburgers.
• Emmental, Gouda, Cheddar are great for cheeseburger.

Enjoy! ☺️

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