Overnight Raised Pumpkin Seed Buns

We love bread, and in the weekends we almost always have it for breakfast. We never buy bread or buns from the grocery store, simply because freshly homemade bread are super simple to make and the taste is just much better. We live in the city and have several good shopping possibilities nearby – we still believe it is fast to mix our own dough and shape it into buns than go and get some from the store. Of cause buns from the store does not have to raise, but the time you have to work is less if you make your bread yourself. If we want to make it even easier for ourselves in the morning we make the dough the evening in advance using less yeast than normal, and then let it raise in the fridge overnight. Then we only have to shape the dough into buns and let it raise for an extra hour at room temperature. This way we have the most delicious, warm and fresh homemade buns with minimum work spent. This recipe for pumpkin seed buns contain the right ingredients so that the dough is perfect to be raised in the fridge for about 8-12 hours. This means that the dough can be mix and kneaded in the evening and then made into buns in the morning – which is usually the way we make our breakfast buns. You can serve the buns with homemade strawberry/rhubarb jam.

Overnight Raised Pumpkin Seed Buns

15 buns
Preparation time: 12 hours (30 minutes of work)

Ingredients:
1 dl (0.5 cup) unflavored yogurt or similar
10 g (1/3 oz) fresh yeast (1/6 oz active dry yeast)
5 dl (2 cups) cold water
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp honey
1/2 dl (1/4 cup) olive oil
100 g (3.5 oz) pumpkin seeds
200 g (7 oz) whole grain spelt flour
600 g (21 oz) plain flour
1 tbsp olive oil

Instruction:
1. day
Step 1: Pour the yogurt in a large bowl and dissolve the yeast.
Step 2: Add water, honey, pumpkin seeds, salt and olive oil.
Step 3: Add the spelt flour and mix well. Then add the plain flour and mix well. Keep mixing the dough until it has a consistency as a thick porridge.
Step 4: Use your hand or a little brush to add a thin layer of oil to the surface of the dough-.
Step 5: Cover the bowl, with the dough, using some plastic foil. Place it in the fridge for about 8-12 hours.

2. day
Step 6: Take out the raised dough from the fridge. Dip a large tablespoon in water and use it to shape the buns. Place the buns on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
Step 7: Cover the buns with a clean dish cloth and raise the buns an extra hour at room temperature.
Step 8: Bake the buns at 225 C (440 F) for about 15 minutes. Let the buns cool off on a oven grid shelf.

By Kim Nielsen
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