Pizza Bread Buns

Here’s a great recipe for homemade pizza buns. Make a batch for your next picnic or for your lunch boxes. Best of all these pizza buns freeze well. Just remove from freezer as needed, pack in your lunch box and by lunch time its ready to enjoy! 

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Ingredients:

500g cake / plain / all-purpose flour

1 sachet yeast

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon sugar

3 tablespoons oil

300ml lukewarm water

Fillings of your choice, I used polony braised with onion, garlic and tomatoes. You may use any of your favourite pizza fillings.

Grated cheese

Method:

Add the flour into a large mixing bowl. Mix the yeast, salt and sugar into the flour. Make a well in the centre of the flour. Pour the oil and lukewarm water, start with 250ml of water first. Mix into a dough. Add the remaining 50ml (as needed). Continue kneading the dough for about 10 minutes on your worktop until the dough is smooth and no longer sticking to your hands. Grease a bowl slightly with oil and transfer the dough into the bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and leave to proof until double in size, about 90 minutes. 

After about 90 minutes divide the dough into equal balls, I usually make mine in 50g balls. Smooth the dough balls, dip the dough into a bit of water and then in sesame seeds. Make a dent in the centre of the dough, fill the dough with fillings of your choice and topped with grated cheese. Place your pizza buns on a baking tray lined with parchment paper, I got about 20 buns out of this recipe. Let stand 20-25 minutes, while you preheat the oven.

Pre-heat your oven to 190°c. After the buns have stood for 20-25 minutes or so (or until they look a little puffy around the outside edges), bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until golden and bubbly. Remove from oven then immediately remove to a cooling rack to cool completely. Enjoy immediately or place in an airtight container and refrigerate. These buns freeze really well. Freeze them on baking tray and then transfer to a freezer bag. Enjoy straight from the freezer, no need to thaw. Just place the frozen pizza buns on a baking tray and warm in a preheated oven, at 190°c, for 7 or 8 minutes until warmed through.