- All purpose flour - 500 g /18 oz
- Salt - 1/4 tsp
- Butter - 20 g /0.7 oz
- Sugar - 25 g / 1 0z
- Fresh yeast - 1 Tbsp
- Egg yolk - 1
- Milk - 285 ml
- Egg - 1 (beaten with 2 tbsp of milk)
- Rock salt - 1/2 Tbsp (optional)
- White sesame seed - 1 Tbsp
- All purpose flour - 50 g, for dusting
Make the dough:
- Take a mixing bowl and add 500 g flour, salt, sugar, yeast, egg yolk, butter and finally pour in the milk.
- Blend all the ingredients well in a mixer in slow speed for 5 minutes then stop and check the dough.
- If the dough sticks on the mixer , ease it off from the mixer with your hands.
- Then mix it again on medium speed for 3 minutes.
- Then take the dough out of the bowl.
- Dust some flour in your work surface.
- Place the dough in your work surface, where you sprinkled flour and knead it well with your palm until smooth for a couple of minutes.
- Now place the dough in a bowl.
- Cover it with a tea towel and leave it for about an hour to get it rise up.
Make the Buns:
- Punch the dough down to the bowl to remove the air.
- Dust some flour in your work surface and place the dough on top and roll it into a long strip.
- Now cut the dough to lengthwise and cut across 4 times to make 10 buns.
- Now take 1 piece of dough and roll ot into a long strip.
- Then hold both ends and tie it into a knot.Make it to a bun shape.
- Make like this 5 bun shapes.
- Make the other 5 in to round buns.
- Now place all buns in a baking tray and cover the buns with a tea towel.
- Leave it for 30 minutes to make the buns rise up.
- In the mean time preheat the oven to 300degree F.
- Now coat the bun with egg wash using a brush and then sprinkle sesame seeds followed by the salt.
- Bake the bun for 15 minutes.
- Once buns have turned golden brown color remove it from oven and serve warm.
