These incredibly easy soft homemade burger buns are a regular at my home every other week. Once you try these soft delicious bakery style buns , you would never want to buy the commercia ones. Few simple pantry staple ingredients and relatively simple process. I make these for my bun kabab, beef or chicken burgers.
Recipe at a glance
This is a yeast based recipe that is classified as enriched dough, because it has eggs, butter and yogurt to add richness to the simple dough. You can read my top tips to handle yeast here.
Dry Ingredients – All-Purpose Flour/Maida, Sugar, Salt
Leavening Agent – Yeast(Instant or Granulated)
Dairy – unsalted soft Butter, Dry Milk Powder and Egg
Water – Room Temperature
How to make Burger Buns at home?
Its a pretty straight forward dough, mix all the ingredients in a stand mixer or by hands and knead for good 8-10 minutes until you get a soft, smooth, non-sticky dough.
PRO – Tip – I always keep 1/4 cup of flour from the measurement aside and add it when the dough is very sticky or unmanageable. I keep the liquid quantity same. This is because it is easier to incorporate flour to the wet dough rather than liquid to a dry dough.
I have almost 11 videos on my Youtube channel that shows how to work with yeast. Check out Bread videos here.
FAQs
Substitutions and Variations
Butter can be substituted with oil.
These basic buns recipe is great for making stuffed buns like my coffee buns, slider buns or filled with other things like cheese.
They can also be made into different shapes and details can be found here.
You can brush the buns with garlic butter instead of plain butter. Just add crushed garlic, salt, white pepper and some chopped cilantro/coriander or any other herb and brush on warm buns.
How to serve Burger Buns?
I love to make these for any type of burgers or bun kababs.
They make a great lunch box meal for kids as well.
It is great indulgent treat for lazy weekend brunch.
You may also serve it as a side dish to almost any meal like soups or salad.
Storage and Make Ahead
Since it is a rich dough recipe, they keep particularly well for up to 3 days covered.
You may also freeze the leftovers in air tight box of plastic zip lock bag.
You can make these a day ahead, baked completely. At the time of serving, you can reheat, covered with foil in a hot oven and brush with melted butter.
Burger Buns
These incredibly soft and easy buns are a regular at my home every other week. Once you try these soft delicious bakery style buns , you would never want to buy the commercia ones. Few simple pantry staple ingredients and relatively simple process. I make these for my bun kabab, beef or chicken burgers.
Ingredients
- 3 teaspoons Instant Yeast*
- 1 tablespoon Milk Powder**
- 4 cups all purpose Flour
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Sugar
- 1 tablespoon Oil
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup Soft Butter more for brushing
- 1 1/3 cups Water
- 2 teaspoons Salt
Instructions
- Mix all the dough ingredients and knead the dough into a smooth elastic ball using a stand mixer for 5 minutes.
- Alternately you can use your hands and knead for around 10 minutes.
- Let it rest in a greased bowl, in a warm place, covered for about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
- Divide into 80 - 100 grams pieces and form a ball for shaping buns. 100 grams for 10 buns, 80 grams for 11 buns.
- Place them on a large baking sheet ungreased with enough distance in between.
- Cover with a clean kitchen cloth and let it rise at room temperature (slightly warm place) for about 45 minutes till double in size.
- Brush with beaten egg and sprinkle seeds if desired.
- Bake in a pre heated oven at 375 F for 15 minutes until golden brown.
- Immediately brush with melted butter and cover again to cool completely.
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