Homemade Hamburger Buns

Ingredients

1 cup water

2 TBSP. honey

1 TBSP. yeast

1 tsp. salt

1 egg

2 TBSP. melted butter

3 1/4 cups flour ( I used 2 cups whole wheat, 1 cup all purpose flour)

optional - oats or sesame seeds

Directions

- Pour warm water into medium sized bowl, add in yeast and honey. Let sit for 5 minutes making sure the mixture starts to foam.

-Add in salt, egg, and melted butter.

-Slowly mix in the flour using an electric mixer. (I only added three cups of flour to the bowl, then used the 1/4 cup flour to sprinkle on the counter and my hands to finish kneading the dough). Shape dough into a ball. Dough will be pretty sticky! Try not to add more flour!

- Pour a very small amount of olive oil, like 1tsp. into bottom of bowl, and place dough inside. Lightly coat the ball with olive oil and cover bowl with a light dish towel. Let rise about 45 min. or until doubled in size. 

-Gently punch down dough, and divide into small balls. This recipe makes about eight regular sized buns, but I wanted mine thinner (we usually buy the sandwhich thins for our burgers). So I divided the dough into smaller balls (about the size of a golf ball, which made 11 buns). U can flatten the dough into a large circle using your hands, or take a rolling pin which is what I did.

-Place the buns onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and let rise for another 30 minutes or so. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

-Brush buns with melted butter and top with sesame seeds etc.

-Bake in oven for 10-15 minutes. Until lightly golden brown.

-Slice and Enjoy!!!

*recipe adapted from frugallivingnw.com*