Homemade Hamburger Buns like at McDonald's

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the products for making buns. They should be at room temperature. We will heat the milk and butter, but it's better to get the egg out of the refrigerator in advance. If you forgot to do this, then put the egg in warm water for 5 minutes. Instead of honey, I took sugar.

2. Step 2:

   

   First of all, melt the butter. I heated it in a saucepan on a small fire, you can do it in the microwave. The melted butter should cool to room temperature, so do it about five minutes before cooking.

3. Step 3:

   

   Take a large bowl, pour two tablespoons of warm water into it and add dry yeast. Stir with a spoon. leave the yeast for 5 minutes. This is not done to activate them, but to dissolve them. When interacting with water, yeast became similar to fresh.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add melted butter, honey (I have sugar), egg and warm milk to the yeast. Heat it up a little too, but don't overdo it, hot milk will kill live yeast. Mix all the ingredients with a whisk.

5. Step 5:

   

   Start adding flour in portions, sifting it before that. The flour will be saturated with air and the dough will become softer and more airy. After each serving of flour, stir it with a whisk. At the very end, add salt to the dough.

6. Step 6:

   

   The more flour there is, the harder it will become to stir. Therefore, then start kneading the dough with a mixer or with your hands.

7. Step 7:

   

   I took a mixer with dough nozzles. The dough is very pliable, it quickly became smooth and elastic and began to peel off from the walls.

9. Step 8:

   

   When the dough finally gathers into a ball, stop kneading.

10. Step 9:

    

    Lubricate the bowl with vegetable oil, put the dough in it. Cover the bowl with a towel and put it in a warm place for one and a half to two hours. I put a bowl of dough in a non-working oven, there are no drafts and the dough rises well.

11. Step 10:

    

    The dough will double in two hours.

12. Step 11:

    

    Place the dough on a work surface sprinkled with flour. Lightly knead it. Divide the dough into 12 equal parts. From each part, make a round blank. To do this, turn the edges to the center, as if collecting the dough into a knot, turn the seam down and roll up with your hand, forming a ball.

13. Step 12:

    

    Take a baking sheet, cover it with baking paper. I use a Teflon mat. Place the buns on a baking sheet, leaving a large distance between them. My baking tray is 30 * 40 cm in size, 6 buns fit on it. I put the others on a small baking tray, and they stuck together when baking. It is better to bake on a large batch.Cover the baking sheet with a towel and leave the buns for proofing for another hour.

14. Step 13:

    

    Buns will grow in size in an hour. Take an egg, beat it lightly with a fork. Brush each bun with beaten egg with a brush. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top.

15. Step 14:

    

    Bake the buns in the oven, preheated to a temperature of 200 ° C, top-bottom mode, 15-18 minutes.They should become ruddy. Take out the first baking sheet and immediately bake the second one. Cool the finished buns and use them as intended.