Vegan How-to Recipe: Burger Buns

These are everything in the processed white-fluffy-bun range your little heart could POSSIBLY desire. I now, even though it's considerably more work, make burger-buns EVERY TIME I want to have burgers because they taste SO MUCH BETTER than supermarket ones. I promise. TO THE KITCHEN!



Ingredients:
One cup non-dairy milk (I have used both cashew and soy, both work a treat)
Half a cup of water
A quarter cup of nuttelex (or Earth Balance, or some other non dairy spread)
Four and a half cups of flour
One packet of yeast
Two tablespoons of white sugar
Two teaspoons of salt
The equivalent of one egg in egg replacement

Instructions:

Heat the milk, water, and dairy spread in a small saucepan. DON'T bring it to the boil. You want fifty degrees-ish, it should be colder than the temperature you drink your coffee. Your finger should sit comfortably in the liquid without feeling ouch-y.

In a large bowl, mix two cups of flour with the yeast, sugar, salt, and egg replacement powder.

Pour in the milk mixture, and mix in with a butter knife. Add the rest of the flour slowly, and get your hands in there, bringing it together into a ball of dough.

This dough should be soft, not firm. It shouldn't be sticky, but it should feel very soft to knead, which you should do for five or so minutes. Once it's all come together and is nice and pliable, grease your large bowl and put the dough in there, cover with a damp cloth, and leave to rise for between forty minutes and an hour. It doesn't need to double in size, but it does need to rise.

Punch the dough down, and tip it from the bowl onto a floured surface. Divide into eight even pieces and roll them into balls, shaping into bread-rolls.

Place them on a lined oven tray and sprinkle with sesame or poppy seeds (optional). Then cover with a damp teatowel and rise again for forty minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to about 180 degrees Celsius.

Now bake for between fifteen and twenty minutes, checking them after ten. They should go golden on top and on the bottom but retain their softness.

Enjoy!