Sri Lankan Egg Buns
Description
A must try Sri Lankan bakery bun filled with eggs onions and peppers that is so good for breakfast.
Ingredients
- 250 g all-purpose flour
- 4 g Instant dry yeast
- 20 g sugar
- 25 g softened butter or margarine
- 5 g salt
- 1 egg (approx 50g)
- 50 g warm water
- 55 g warm milk
- 1 egg york
- 2 tsp milk
- boiled eggs cut into quarters length wise ((about 5 for 6 buns))
- onions
- peppers
- salt to sprink on eggs
- any condiment of your choice such as mayo, ketchup
For the dough
For egg wash
To fill the buns
Instructions
Mix everything except butter together in a mixer for 6 mins. Double the time if kneading by hand.
When everything comes together add butter and knead in the machine for another 6 mins or 12mins by hand. The dough should be soft and tacky. When it's completely kneaded, take the dough out and shape it into a ball with your hands.Put the dough back into the mixer bowl back, cover with a plastic wrap and leave it in a warm place until it’s doubled in size.
- When the dough has doubled in size, punch it down and transfer to the benchtop and divide into 6 equal pieces, make them into balls, cover with a towel and let them rest for 15 mins.
- After 15mins, take one ball at a time, make approx 6*4 inch rectangles and roll it into cylinders (approx 6 inches long). They might shrink back a little but that’s okay.
- Arrange them on a baking tray, cover with a towel, allow them to rise again for about an hour until they are almost doubled in size. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400F for 30mins.
- Egg wash the buns, bake them for approx 12mins until they are golden. Take them out and let them rest for at least 30mins before you cut them open to fill with anything.
- apply some Mayo or butter to the opening of the buns. Fill with boiled eggs, onions, and peppers. Sprinkle some salt on the eggs.
Making bread
Assembling the egg buns
Notes
You can fill these buns with hot dogs, egg omelet, or egg salad, or any other filling you like.
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Roshani Wickramasinghe
Hungry Lankan
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