Ingredients:
- 20 g bread flour
- 100 g water
- 120 g milk
- 30 g sugar
- 7 g yeast
- 3 g baking powder
- 320 g bread flour
- 3 g salt
- 1 egg white
- 1/2 egg yolk (keep the other half for egg wash)
- 57 g butter
- White sesame seeds
Method:
- Add 20 g bread flour and 100 g water into a saucepan.
- Cook them over low heat till a smooth paste is formed. (We need about 75 - 80 g of cooked dough for our buns.)
- Set aside the cooked dough till it cools down completely.
- Add cooked dough, milk, sugar, yeast, baking powder, bread flour, salt, egg white and egg yolk into the bowl of a stand mixer.
- Knead the ingredients till a smooth dough is formed.
- Add butter to the dough and continue till window pane is achieved.
- Oil a clean bowl.
- Put the dough into the bowl and let it proof for about 1 hour or till it has doubled in size.
- Punch out the air in the dough.
- Knead it back into a ball.
- Cut the ball into 8 pieces of about 90 g each or 12 pieces of 60 g.
- Roll out each ball into a rectangle and roll up it up into a long roll of about 5 inches.
- Seal the edges by pinching them together.
- Place the long dough, seam-side down on a baking tray lined with greased parchment paper.
- Cover the dough and let them proof for about 30 minutes.
- Egg wash the dough with the remaining 1/2 egg yolk mixed with a tablespoon of milk.
- Sprinkle some sesame seeds onto the dough.
- Bake at 175 degree C for about 18 minutes .
- When done, remove the buns from the baking tray to a metal rack and let them cool down.