Buns and breads are my daughter favorite that's how i started baking them. Home baked breads are soo good after you start baking you hardly buy ready made. Do follow the below tips if you are baking for first time.
TIPS BEFORE YOU START BAKING BREAD:
- Read the Instructions properly
- Start with a Forgiving Bread ( Flour, yeast, water, and salt. Those are bread's basic ingredients.)
- It’s important to have all your ingredients in front of you before starting down
- Measure you ingredients properly, A few grams or ounces or kilotons here and there make a difference. Baking by measurements of weight, instead of volume, keeps tighter control of your proportions for a more consistently awesome bread.
- Use good quality Yeast
- Kneading is very important . (If the phone rings, let it ring. If the kids are around, send them out of the kitchen. Kneading is all about teaching your hands what to expect from the dough.
- Keep a watch of you oven (One of the most common mistakes in bread baking is throwing the dough in the oven and abandoning it.)
- Master a Basic, Then Expand (Get one loaf down before you start to improvise and experiment. Familiarizing yourself with the relationship between certain ingredients and how they affect the final product is vital information)
CARROT BUNS
INGREDIENTS:
Cooked and pureed carrots 3/4 cup
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2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp unsalted butter
3/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup water
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
2 1/4 cup maida
2 tsp instant yeast or 1/2 tbsp dry active yeast
METHOD:
- In a pan add carrot puree, brown sugar, butter, and salt combine and heat on low flame till the butter melts ( just lukewarm)
- Remove from the pan add to a bowl and to that add water, yeast , whole wheat flour and mix well
- Then add maida 1/2 at a time mixing well after each addition
- Use last 1/4 cup maida to adjust the consistency while kneading
- Do not add extra flour or water
- Knead first around 8 to 10 mins till u get a smooth and elastic dough
- Place this on a greased bowl and let it rise for around 1 to 1.5 hr
- After the first rise deflate the dough and shape it into buns ( small balls ) and place it In the tray
- Cover and allow it to rise for another 45 mins
- Preheat the oven at 180c
- Brush the surface with milk
- Bake the buns for Around 15 to 18 mins or till the top crust becomes golden brown
- Remove the bun from the oven and transfer it to a cooking rack ( just after taking out otherwise it will become soggy)
- U can apply butter on the surface which gives an extra flavor to the buns
- Completely cool and then serve (around 1 hr)
Note:
It stays good for 3 days outside and more days if u refrigerate 😊
