Sweet Milk Buns Recipe with step by step pictures. This is simple recipe with basic ingredients and it turned to be soft, slightly chewy, milky and sweet.
Sweet Milk Buns
You know i have a addiction to all things buns, i make them quite often. I love the smell and taste of freshly made homemade buns, there is something in them which makes it so tasty. After my attempt of making homemade brioche, i thought they are the best buns and i am gonna keep that recipe in my repitore. But yesterday i made this buns and now i am thinking these are the best.
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Ingredients for Sweet Milk Buns
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - 2 cup + ½ cup for kneading
- Dry Yeast - 1.5 tsp
- Egg - 1
- Milk - ½ cup / 120 ml
- Butter - 50 grams melted
- Sugar - ½ cup / 100 grams
- Warm Water - 1 tbsp for activating yeast
For the Paste:
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - 2 tbsp
- Milk - ½ cup
For Egg Wash:
- Egg - 1
- Milk - ¼ cup
These sweet milk buns are made using tangzhong starter, but i made the paste using flour and milk, normally it is made with flour and water. These are also called as Hokkaido bread or buns. I will soon share a bread recipe using this method.
These buns are so soft and fluffy. These taste so yum. Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
How to Make Sweet Milk Buns
- First make the paste, take flour and milk in a sauce pan, heat it on low heat till it gets pasty like. remove and set aside to cool.
- Take yeast in a bowl, add in warm water and let it sit for 5 mins or so till it is acivated.
- Now take the cooked flour paste in a bowl, add in sugar, ½ cup of milk, egg, melted butter, yeast liquid and mix really well.
- Take flour in a large bowl, add this sugary liquid into the flour and knead to a sticky dough.
- Cover and set aside for 1.30 hours to2 hours till the dough is doubled in size.
- Now add more flour and knead it for 10 mins or so till it is soft, smooth.
- Divide it into equal portions.
- Take one portion and roll it into a smooth ball.
- Arrange it in a parchment lined baking tray and cover with plastic wrap. Set aside for 1 hour or so till it is doubled in size.
- In the last 10 mins of the proofing stage, preheat oven to 180 degree C.
- Now mix egg and milk for egg wash and use a brush to paint this all over the buns.
- Now bake this in the oven for 25 to 30 mins till the top is golden.
- Remove it and let it cool for 5 mins.
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Sweet Milk Buns Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cup + ½ cup for kneading All Purpose Flour / Maida
- 1.5 tsp Dry Yeast
- 1 Egg
- ½ cup / 120 ml Milk
- 50 grams Butter melted
- ½ cup / 100 grams Sugar
- 1 tbsp Warm Water for activating yeast
- For the Paste:
- 2 tbsp All Purpose Flour / Maida
- ½ cup Milk
- For Egg Wash:
- 1 Egg
- ¼ cup Milk - ¼ cup
Instructions
- First make the paste, take flour and milk in a sauce pan, heat it on low heat till it gets pasty like. remove and set aside to cool.
- Take yeast in a bowl, add in warm water and let it sit for 5 mins or so till it is acivated.
- Now take the cooked flour paste in a bowl, add in sugar, ½ cup of milk, egg, melted butter, yeast liquid and mix really well.
- Take flour in a large bowl, add this sugary liquid into the flour and knead to a sticky dough.
- Cover and set aside for 1.30 hours to2 hours till the dough is doubled in size.
- Now add more flour and knead it for 10 mins or so till it is soft, smooth.
- Divide it into equal portions.
- Take one portion and roll it into a smooth ball.
- Arrange it in a parchment lined baking tray and cover with plastic wrap. Set aside for 1 hour or so till it is doubled in size.
- In the last 10 mins of the proofing stage, preheat oven to 180 degree C.
- Now mix egg and milk for egg wash and use a brush to paint this all over the buns.
- Now bake this in the oven for 25 to 30 mins till the top is golden.
- Remove it and let it cool for 5 mins.
- Remove it serve warm with a cup of milk.
Notes
2)You just just leave the egg in the egg wash and brush it with just milk. But egg gives the beautiful golden colour.
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Sweet Milk Buns Recipe Step by Step
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| i added 1 tblspn of warm water to activate it.. Important, the yeast has to bubble up, if it didn't bubble up then start a new batch..or the buns wont rise at all |
srianth
How can we make bun without using egg
Anonymous
Dear aarthi pl give me suggestion can we use active dry yeast. if we use is that also need to be activated with luke warm water. then can I do this recipe in convection mode of microwave oven
sindhuja
Nice one..sure will try..
Aarthi
@srianthjust skip eggs and add more milk
Aarthi
@AnonymousIf u use active dry yeast, no need to activate it
neha saxena
Hi how can i make them in convection microwave? Which mode should i use? Grill, micro, convection? Coz if i use convection things gets too hard!! I am so upset coz of that! Pls help! Thanks
Anonymous
thank u aarthi I am looking your recipes only before few days I am very much impressed with ur recipes and tried ur thalapakatti biryani it turns very yummy and ur presentation is very detail thank u
Aarthi
@neha saxenaConvection should be used. DOnt over bake. if u do then it will get hard
Anonymous
Luv ur recipes. ..hatsoff to u...pictorial makes recipe easier
Rekha
Please tell how much milk to add to replace egg??
Aarthi
@Rekhaadd around 1/4 cup
Anonymous
Can we do it in microwave?? if yes how long baking? ??
ilavarasi ilu
Plz suggest some healthy foods for my 10 months
ilavarasi ilu
Suggest some healthy foods for my 10 months old angel
Aarthi
@AnonymousIf you have convection mode, you can bake, else you cannot.
Deeksha Pathak
Hi aarti..so shiney buns...I didn't understand that why do we have to make the paste....can't we just prepare dough like we do for bread
kalpana
Hi thank you for sharing. Can I use whole wheat powder instead of maida. ?
Aarthi
@kalpanayou could use whole wheat flour, but it will be a little dense...You can use half maida and half wheat flour.
Aarthi
@Deeksha Pathakadding the sticky paste into the dough will result in a really fluffy textured buns
Avni
Hiii Aarthi in pics u hv added tutti fruitty in buns plz mention when to add tutti fruiy ......n ......can v add nuts on top of d bun before baking
Thanks & regards
Avni
Avni
Hiii Aarthi in pics u hv added tutti fruitty in buns plz mention when to add tutti fruiy ......n ......can v add nuts on top of d bun before baking
Thanks & regards
Avni
Aarthi
@Avnicheck this link for the tutti fruity buns
https://www.yummytummyaarthi.com/2015/05/coconut-tutti-frutti-buns-recipe.html
Eshwari
Hi Aarthi.. I have been trying quite few recipes from your blog recently.. They all turned quite good, thanks to your perfect recipes 🙂
I faced few problems while making the sweet buns..
1> I had to add more than 1 cup extra flour to knead the dough after raising it for 2 hours. The dough was too sticky.. Can you help me out if I am wrong somewhere
2> The inside of the buns were fluffy and soft, but the outer layer turned hard.. Any tips here ??
Thank you again for your Yummy recipes, they are a life saver many a times 😉 🙂
Aarthi
@Eshwariits not a issue, you can add as much flour as it needs to make the dough soft.
Brush the top generously with milk or egg, this makes them soft. And never over bake.
Classmates
Hi,
I am new to baking and I tried making bread without loaf pan yesterday (recipe not yours). Even after the prescribed time, 20 minutes, the bread's top portion was still while, so I decided to bake it further 10 minutes, but no good. Finally I changed the oven setting to grill mode with only top element. That made the bread brown on top. But unfortunately, the bread was so hard on the outer part (top and bottom) but it was good inside. I understood that this was because of over baking.
So I approached this recipe with utmost care. I baked on the middle position with Convection mode on (only bottom heating element active). But same result this time also. My bun's top was white, so after 25 minutes, I changed oven setting to convection with top & bottom element active. That brought little bit brown color. Then I moved the rack position one step higher and turned oven knob to grill mode with only top element. Within 1 minute, it got brown.
So total time 31+ minutes. But the bun's bottom was too hard and looked like over baked. But top and center parts were very good.
What could have gone wrong?
I am using Morphy Richard 36L Convection OTG.
Aarthi
@Classmatesit depends for each oven, what you can do it bake till the bread is done, then brush some milk or butter on top and grill for a min for that colour
Anonymous
shall I do this in pressure cooker
Unknown
thanx, it came out nicely, perfect recipe
Dark fury
Hey.. great recepie.. but my buns cracked.. how can I avoid that?
Aarthi
when shaping the buns make sure it is smooth
PriyaKumar
I prepared the buns but I am getting the smell of yeast in a strong flavor..... What shall I do sissy??? Can we add any essence for flavor.
PIyali Chatterjee
Hi Aarathi,
Thank you for taking a lot of trouble sharing this recipe. It’s awesome. I was little frightened while kneading the dough, it was consuming a lot of Flour, but the end result is so good.
Aarthi
Glad you tried and liked it.