Potatoes can be found abundantly in our country throughout the year. Due to their availability they are very useful in our daily cooking and baking. They can be stir-fried, deep-fried, braised, stewed, boiled and baked. I have used potatoes in making bread loaves and buns. They made these loaves and buns very soft for many days on the counter-top.
Ingredients:
- 200 g mash potato
- 650 g bread flour
- 7 g yeast
- 45 g sugar
- 10 g salt
- 1 Grade A egg
- 260 g warm milk
- 70 g butter
- 60 g grated Mozzarella cheese
Method:
- Peel the potatoes, cut them into thick slices and boil them till they are soft.
- Once they are soft, remove them from the pot and mash them. Set them aside.
- Add the flour, yeast, sugar and salt to the bowl of a stand mixer.
- Next, add the egg and warm milk.
- Knead the dough till a ball has been formed.
- Add the butter and continue kneading till window pane is achieved.
- Grease a bowl.
- Transfer the dough to the bowl. Cover the bowl with a cling wrap and let the dough proof till it is doubled in size.
- Punch down the dough.
- Slightly flour the counter-top.
- Transfer the dough onto the counter-top.
- Knead the dough for about 5 minutes. Form a big dough ball.
- Cut the dough ball into 16 pieces.
- Roll each piece into a ball and place it onto a cake liner.
- Repeat till all the dough has been rolled up.
- Let the dough balls proof a second time.
- Once they have risen and are ready for baking, spread the grated cheese on top.
- Bake them in a pre-heated oven at 175 degrees C for about 18 minutes.
- Remove the buns from the oven once they are baked.