40 minutes Vegan Burger Buns

Hi everybody, how are you all doing? I am doing very well, a wee bit busy though.  Well, it’s not my mistake for sure, I do try to sit in front of my computer but whenever I look out of my window, my Garden beckons me with longing to fold me in her bare blanket pleading me to print and paint beautiful spring colours.  Summer is definitely around the corner for sure, fingers crossed, I have bought loads of seeds and my little greenhouse is ready.

I didn't pay some  hi-fi price to buy it, hope it can withstand all the weather changes we go through. Last time I had hard time ripening my Tomatoes.  As the weather keeps changing it’s very difficult to maintain the temperature the plants need.  I am  not planning to grow too many vegetables this year, looking after them is a big problem with all kind of creatures crawling and flying around giving me a hard time in getting rid of them.

I have a lot of perrineal and Hardy plants coming back every year to adorn my garden, I have also planted a few flowering plants and love to see them bloom.  It’s this time of the year I get all up my bulbs coming up with beautiful coloured flowers, Daffodils, Tulips, tuberose and many more.

With all the greenery around, and the hot sun drying me out of any hydration in my body craved for something fresh, and juicy,  that was when I started thinking of salads, Fresh vegetables and fruits. Once you put your little grey cells to work, as Poirot says they always come up with different ideas.

Right at that time my daughter calls me to ask, if I did remember what she wanted to eat when she comes back to visit me, I knew what she wanted and said I would keep it ready by the time she is home. when I am in the Garden I keep losing track of  time, so when she called me I had no idea what time it was, she said she has already boarded her train and  is coming home. I got a bit tensed up, she will be home in 1 ½ to 2 hrs time before I could make Burger Buns and the Burgers to go with it, that was when I remembered a 40 minute Hamburger Bun topic in one of the FB groups I follow.  Immediately browsed through my phone and found the recipe from Taste of Home.  I decided on giving that a try.

My recipe is an inspiration and minimally adapted from Taste of Home but with my own little modifications, I mean tweaks, First of all I did not  use egg as suggested so I made it eggless, then didn’t want to use so much Yeast so cut it down and Oil which was wee bit more to my liking.  With all these elements in my mind I came out with this recipe, and believe it or not it was so soft and the house smelled like heaven, kids gave a thumbs sign saying the Buns were very soft.

Recipe source:  Inspired by Taste of Home
Prep time: 5 min (measuring ingredients)
Starter + kneading time: 15 minutes
Rest time: 10 minutes
Baking time: 8 to 13 minutes

INGREDIENTS:
1 tbsp – Yeast
2 tbsp – Sugar
2 tbsp – Potato Starch
1 tsp – Salt
3 tbsp – Oil (I used extra virgin Olive Oil)
1 Slice of Bread (¼ cup of Bread crumbled)
325 -350 ml warm water (around 1 ¼ cup )
350-375 grams or 3 ½ cup of Bread Flour (I used Hovis white Bread flour)

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40 minutes Vegan Burger Buns

40 minute Hamburger Buns very soft and delicious to savour with anything and it is vegan!

Course Breakfast /Brunch /Meal/Dinner

Cuisine International

Prep Time 25 minutes minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes minutes

Total Time 40 minutes minutes

Servings 9 or 12

Author Jayasri

Ingredients

• INGREDIENTS:
• 1 tbsp – Yeast
• 2 tbsp – Sugar
• 2 tbsp – Potato Starch
• 1 tsp – Salt
• 3 tbsp – Oil I used extra virgin Olive Oil
• 1 Slice of Bread ¼ cup of Bread crumbled
• 325 -350 ml warm water around 1 ¼ cup
• 350-375 grams or 3 ½ cup of Bread Flour I used Hovis white Bread flour

Instructions

• Method:
• In a large bowl take yeast and sugar and pour 2 to 3 tbsp of warm water and let it rest for 5 minutes.
• In a small bowl using a ¼ cup of warm water dissolve potato starch, salt and bread. Let it get mashed up well.
• Meanwhile, you would have noticed bubbles forming up in your yeast mixture, to this add the above potato starch mixture and mix well.
• To this now add flour and warm water, to form a soft dough, you might feel it a bit sticky not to worry everything will be fineJ.
• Turn this dough onto your kitchen counter dust your hands with flour and start kneading until very smooth and elastic at least 7 to 8 minutes. DO NOT LET IT RISE very important.
• Divide this into pieces as per you like either 12 or less I made around 9 pieces perfect for my burger.
• Shape each piece into a ball, place them on a flour dusted Baking sheet giving them 3 to 4-inch space between them.
• Cover and let it rest for 10 minutes. Brush it with milk.
• Bake at 425°, I baked it around Gas Mark 6 as I have a Gas oven and it gets pretty hot, 10 to 13 minutes depending on your oven temperature until golden brown. Once done place it on a wire rack, give 5 to 6 minutes, remove it from the sheet and transfer it on to a wire rack directly to cool completely, this ensures no soggy bottom.

Notes

You can small 12 or 9 Bigger Buns, you can add instead of Butter if you wish, if you don't get potato starch not to worry add 2 to 3 tbsp of cooked potato or cooked Rice just to make it soft. Even try using cornstarch or Tofu you have varied choices to substitute but don't omit the Bread slice

Method:
In a large bowl take yeast and sugar and pour 2 to 3 tbsp of warm water and let it rest for 5 minutes.
In a small bowl using a ¼ cup of warm water dissolve potato starch, salt and bread. Let it get mashed up well.
Meanwhile, you would have noticed bubbles forming up in your yeast mixture, to this add the above potato starch mixture and mix well.
To this now add flour and warm water, to form a soft dough, you might feel it a bit sticky not to worry everything will be fineJ.
Turn this dough onto your kitchen counter dust your hands with flour and start kneading until very smooth and elastic at least 7 to 8 minutes. DO NOT LET IT RISE very important.
Divide this into pieces as per you like either 12 or less I made around 9 pieces perfect for my burger.
Shape each piece into a ball, place them on a flour dusted Baking sheet giving them 3 to 4-inch space between them.
Cover and let it rest for 10 minutes. Brush it with milk.
Bake at 425°, I baked it around Gas Mark 6 as I have a Gas oven and it gets pretty hot, 10 to 13 minutes depending on your oven temperature until golden brown.  Once done place it on a wire rack, give 5 to 6 minutes, remove it from the sheet and transfer it on to a wire rack directly to cool completely, this ensures no soggy bottom.