Plum Cake

Bread Rolls / Buns

Ingredients:

Lukewarm Water – 1/4 cup

Mix of Milk and Water – 1 cup

Butter  (at room temp) -  3 tablespoons

All Purpose Flour -  2 cups

Whole wheat flour – 2 cups

Sugar - 2 table spoon

Salt – 1 teaspoon

Instant Yeast – 2 teaspoons

For Egg wash (Optional)

Egg – 1

Milk – 1 tea spoon

Method:

Take ¼ cup lukewarm water and add 1 teaspoon of sugar and the instant yeast. Mix it well and keep it aside to rise.

Mix the flour and salt in a bowl. Take milk and water mix in a large bowl. Add the risen yeast mix to this. Mix it well. Add the flour mix, 1 cup at a time, mix it well (You can use a food processor or blender to mix it well. If you don’t have it, then mix by hand) until you get a very wet dough which starts pulling off from the side of the bowl. Add butter a little to the mix and keep kneading.

Transfer this to a lightly floured work table; knead gently for 10 minutes, adding a little flour at a time (only if required) until you get a very loose but non sticky dough. (Do not add excess flour and do not knead too hard.)

Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl. Grease the dough also. Cover it with a wet cloth and let it rise at room temperature (preferably in a warm place) until it has doubled in size. This can take from 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Gently deflate the dough and shape the rolls as desired.Place the rolls/buns on baking sheets. Lightly brush them with the egg wash.  

For egg wash- Mix egg and milk and beat roughly.

Cover them with a wet cloth and let the dough rise for 45 to 60 minutes (preferably in a warm place) until it has doubled in size again.

Just before baking, brush the rolls/buns with egg wash . Bake the rolls/buns in a preheated oven at 180 C for 20 to 25 minutes until they are done and golden brown. Remove the rolls/buns from the oven and brush them with melted butter and let them cool on a wire rack.

You can use flax seeds or sesame if required. Top the buns with flax seeds or sesame seeds just before baking, after egg wash.